Cushman Concepts is a dynamic restaurant group created by husband and wife team Tim and Nancy Cushman. They have founded and lead restaurants in Boston whose collective vision is to create unique hospitality experiences that surprise and delight their guests every day. The Cushman Concepts team is proud of these shared principles: that they are a group that is creatively driven and operationally sound, and that they foster and insist upon a culture of genuine care for themselves, their purveyors and their guests. Operating with this culture as a constant goal in addition to providing guests with crave-able food, beverage and warm service in unique ways is our inspiration and challenge. o ya Boston, their original restaurant, is a contemporary Japanese restaurant specializing in sushi and small plates called o ya opened in Boston in 2007, and earned Chef Tim Cushman the James Beard Foundation Best Chef Northeast award in 2012. Hojoko Japanese Tavern opened in Boston in 2014, a more funky izakaya-style concept with live music and karaoke. In 2019, the Cushman team opened Ms. Cluck’s Deluxe Chicken & Dumplings and gogo ya Crispy Nori Sushi Tacos in Boston’s location of Time Out Market. Bianca Woodfire Kitchen & Bar opened in 2020 at The Street in Chestnut Hill; a woodfire pizza oven and grill driven modern American restaurant with a lively bar scene.