Seven spring restaurant openings to get excited about

Sophisticated Italian from an acclaimed chef: Jody Adams (Rialtoat the Charles Hotel) returns to grand hotel dining with La Padrona at the glam Raffles Hotel & Residences skyscraper. Her newest perch is two stories: a ground-floor lounge and an upstairs dining room, modeled after an Italian villa. Executive chef Amarilys Colón comes from Adams’s coastal Italian Back Bay restaurant, Porto. It’s slated to open in May, serving dishes like paccheri and clams and whipped ricotta with dried sweet peppers, honey, and balsamic