About Cat

Cat Silirie has won the National James Beard Award for Excellence for outstanding wine programs. Cat has also served as the Executive Wine Director at Boston restaurants including Menton, No.9 Park, Sportello, The Butcher Shop, B&G Oysters, Drink, Stir, Rocco's, The Harvest, Galleria Italiana and Grill 23.

Cat’s Wine Consultancy clients have included Sarma Restaurant, Woods Hill Table Concord, Seth & Angela Raynor's The Pearl on Nantucket, Frank McClelland's Farm to Frank, and Rubiner's Cheesemongers of Great Barrington. She is also a wine instructor at Commonwealth Wine School, Cambridge MA.

In addition to her James Beard Best Wine Program award, Cat is the recipient of numerous accolades, including multiple times for  Boston Magazine's Best of Boston awards for both Best Sommelier and Best Wine Programs. Other accolades for her work include Wine Enthusiast Magazine's  Menton in  "Top-100 Wine Restaurants", for "Best Wine Bar” via Improper Bostonian for her wine program at Boston's The Butcher Shop. The Boston Globe’s Devra First has described Cat Silirie's food and wine pairings during her tenure at Menton as “transcendent with every course” and Kay Rentschler of the New York Times wrote of Cat as “Boston’s pre-eminent sommelier”.