High-profile chef Michael Scelfo is adding another restaurant to his growing Boston empire. Josephine, an Italian restaurant dedicated to pizzas, Roman street snacks, and recipes from Scelfo’s Italian American upbringing, is opening inside Somerville’s Cambria Hotel, at 515 Somerville Avenue, this spring.

Plenty of Boston-area chefs are not happy about this development. Scelfo previously came under fire in 2020 when former staffers took to social media to allege misconduct at the chef’s restaurants, and some in the industry were outraged to see him resurface in the news with a new project.