Chef Michael Scelfo's footprint on the Boston food scene expanded recently with the opening of a restaurant that he calls his most personal yet.

Josephine opened last week on the ground floor at the Cambria Hotel in Somerville, 515 Somerville Ave., a short distance from his three acclaimed establishments in Cambridge — Alden & Harlow, The Longfellow Bar and Waypoint — and in a quickly growing and changing neighborhood.