THE TASTER
For a slow pack animal, Little Donkey sure gets around. The acclaimed restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts, jumps from cuisine to cuisine with the kind of reckless abandon only the best chefs can risk attempting. Fortunately, its founders, the James Beard Award–winning chefs Ken Oringer and Jamie Bissonnette, are two of the inest. Of their ive restaurants—including Boston’s Coppa and branches of Toro in New York, Boston and Bangkok—Little Donkey is the naughty, younger sibling, breaking all the rules in the sweetest of ways.
IN THE ROOM: It’s a credit to Little Donkey’s food that few reviewers wasted precious page space describing their surroundings. The Boston Globe informs us that at night “the gaping dining room, all exposed brick and ductwork and soaring ceilings, is dark, loud, mobbed and throbbing with energy.” That’s about it, really. May we point you toward Instagram?