Plum Island Grille Owner, General Manager and Executive Chef, Francis Broadbery, is a father of two boys: Isaac, 10 and Joshua, 8. He was born in Dublin, Ireland into a family of eighteen siblings. He worked restaurants from the age of 14 to earn college funds and studied architecture for two years before being lured back to his original passion-cooking. He has worked in Dublin, London, Copenhagen, and various cities in Switzerland, Spain and France. He owned and operated Baybery's in West Cork, Ireland, together with his wife Kathleen Churchill from 1994-1997. In the states, Broadbery worked at Rebecca's on Beacon Hill in Boston, Alberto's of Portsmouth, and at Arrow's in Ogunquit, Maine, one of the top 50 restaurants in the U. S. Chef Broadbery was invited by Mark Friery in May 2003 to be a guest chef for the summer season at the Plum Island Grille. He quickly fell in love with the island restaurant, and was invited to join the partnership as Executive Chef and General Manager. Since that time, Mark and Francis have purchased a spectacularly beautiful new restaurant in downtown Amesbury, Massachusetts — The Powow River Grille which opened its doors in March 2005.