There’s a brand new (acquainted) face behind the road at 80 Thoreau: Chef Gavin Lambert has formally stepped into the position of Government Chef on the beloved Harmony restaurant. It’s a full-circle second for Lambert, who first joined the kitchen staff in 2018 as a line cook dinner — and even met his now-wife, Rachel, throughout his early days on the restaurant. After a collection of spectacular culinary ventures, he’s again to convey recent power, a humorousness, and his considerate, ingredient-driven type to one of many area’s most charming eating rooms.
Within the years since his first stint at 80 Thoreau, Lambert has been busy: launching a pandemic-era meal supply service, operating a buzzy mail-order eating mission, and creating Bon Ami, a wildly in style superb eating pop-up that took up Monday night time residency at 80 Thoreau. Identified for his playful but exact strategy to seasonal cooking, Lambert has a knack for reworking humble components into dishes that really feel each nostalgic and novel.
Now on the helm full time, he’s introducing a variety of latest menu objects that replicate his signature type — together with grass-fed beef bolognese with fermented chile and stracciatella, bluefin tuna crudo with rhubarb aguachile and sorrel, and grilled scallops with blistered asparagus, scallion aioli, and fried garlic. Company can anticipate a steadiness of New England seasonality, superb eating finesse, and simply the precise contact of caprice.
To mark this new chapter, Lambert can be launching a six-course tasting menu, accessible nightly by reservation. It’s an opportunity for diners to expertise the identical creativity and a spotlight to element that made Bon Ami successful — now in a brand new format, and with much more room to evolve.
Scope out the brand new menu, then go forward and make your reservation on-line right here or by calling 978.318.0008. For a peek behind the scenes and updates from the kitchen, observe alongside on Insta.
