Kudos to culinary dream team Ken Oringer and Jamie Bissonnette. Tapas haven Toro, their first collaboration, still buzzes with the same elbow-to-elbow energy as the ’05 day it started serving that now-famous aioli- and cotija-smeared grilled street corn. It’s the rare Boston restaurant to have sustained a follow-up branch in hypercompetitive NYC (and the only one to open an outpost in Bangkok). The duo will soon debut another small plates-focused concept, Cambridge’s Little Donkey. Until then, it’s still a bull market.
Toro
1704 Washington St., Boston • (617) 536-4300
toro-restaurant.com
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2014 Winner: Toro
Jamie Bissonnette and Ken Oringer took Toro to Manhattan last year, gambling that one of Boston’s most successful restaurants could woo New Yorkers...
- 1704 Washington St., Boston
- (617) 536-4300
- toro-restaurant.com
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Spanish
2015 Winner: Toro
The South End’s oldest Spanish joint is painfully, raucously crowded from the moment it opens for dinner to nearly the end of service every night, with no reservations…...
- 1704 Washington St., Boston
- (617) 536-4300
- toro-restaurant.com/boston
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