08/21/2026
Today, we’re celebrating the birthday of the woman behind Molly’s!
While Molly’s has become a place for great food, thoughtful cocktails, and good company, at the heart of it all is Molly herself — and the people and community she’s built around this place.
When asked what her favorite thing about Molly’s is, her answer was simple: “The community that it has created.”
One of her favorite memories is the moment Molly’s stopped feeling like an idea and started feeling like a real restaurant — when the dining room went from familiar faces whose orders she knew by heart to a room full of happy strangers who would eventually become friends and regulars.
Her passion for cooking started with her mother, who was a fierce cook herself. She took chances, made weird things, and gave Molly the freedom to do the same. That sense of curiosity has clearly stayed with her. She dreams of eating her way through the Japanese countryside, experiencing open-pit cooking, and watching Indian flatbread being slapped onto the side of a hot wall — “like aerobatic baking,” as she puts it.
Another thing that stands out about Molly is how much she cares about the people around her.
She works incredibly hard, and somehow manages to balance running a restaurant with raising three girls, while still making sure the people at Molly’s are taken care of. She has a way of paying attention to the people around her — noticing when someone needs a little extra support, celebrating the wins, and making sure her team knows they’re valued. Her care for the people at Molly’s is something you feel every day, and it’s a big part of what makes Molly’s feel like the community she’s so proud of.
This year, she says she’s especially proud of the kitchen and bar — the consistency, creativity, and sheer amount of food and drink they put out every day. She’s also proud of the relationships we’ve built with local growers and the privilege of serving produce that comes from such incredible people.
And when she’s not at Molly’s, her perfect day looks a little different: time with her husband, Ben and her girls, a long walk, and roasting or grilling something good. She loves swimming in the ocean, has always been curious about food and places she hasn’t experienced yet, and secretly thinks she’d make a pretty good private investigator.
As Molly looks toward another year, she hopes it brings “clarity, change, new concepts and pockets of exhausting laughter.”
We hope it brings all of that and more. We’re incredibly lucky to have someone who works as hard as Molly does, cares as deeply as she does, and never stops checking in on the people around her. She has built so much more than a restaurant — she’s built a place where people feel cared for, and we’re grateful to be a part of it.
Happy birthday, Molly. We hope today you feel just how much you are appreciated. ❤️🥂
