When chef Tim Cushman and his sake sommelier wife, Nancy, opened the original O Ya in Boston in 2007, it was a raw-fish revelation—a big-ticket sushi operation run out of a century-old redbrick ...

Heralded sushi omakase spot O Ya — from hit Boston restaurateurs Tim and Nancy Cushman — has permanently closed after five years in New York, a spokesperson for the couple’s restaurant group Cushman ...

There’s a scene in Pretty Woman where Richard Gere whisks Julia Roberts to her first opera and, as the lights dim, ratchets up the stakes. “[First-timers] either love it, or they hate it,” he ...

Among other, more local projects that O Ya’s Tim and Nancy Cushman have in the works around Boston, the restaurant-power couple is taking its talents to Mexico City. Cushman Concepts is teaming up ...

Judging from what I’ve read about you, you have an extremely diverse background — you’ve traveled and worked everywhere and actually almost became a professional guitarist. Can you run through some of ...

Gould and Paolini worked together at O Ya; Paolini later became executive sous chef at Sarma.

Walk around Curry Hill for the better part of an evening and you’ll encounter casual shops hawking fragrant cinnamon bark, orange flower water, rose syrup, mustard-colored turmeric, goat kebabs from ...