Italian food – real Italian food – is all about simplicity. Take great ingredients, cook them simply, and let the natural flavors shine. That is the way Chef Taylor Naples approaches his cuisine at Terra, a beautifully understated, rustic Italian restaurant in Plymouth. “We try to take the best of ingredients that are available to us locally and just do as little to it as possible, and hopefully cook it as best as we can.”

Taylor grew up in an Italian family. He got his culinary degree at Johnson and Wales, worked as a chef in New York for a decade, and when he and his wife decided to move to the South Shore, Taylor knew this region was ready for a different kind of restaurant, focusing on seasonal ingredients and wood-fired cooking.