Today we’d like to introduce you to Jason Bond.
Chef/Owner Jason grew up in Wyoming and Kansas and was raised around farming and preserving the harvest. This “root cellar” style has shaped the food he prepares today. He moved to the East Coast in 1995 to pursue a culinary career and has worked with and learned from many passionate and idealistic chefs over the past 20 years in environments ranging from slow-smoked BBQ to Relais & Châteaux properties. Today, he focuses on developing a network of food purveyors whose goals are to steward the environment and produce the best quality vegetables, fish and meat in the world. Jason works directly with producers to find interesting vegetables and rare breeds of livestock and strives to combine traditional and modern techniques to prepare honest and flavorful food. Chef Bond opened Bondir Cambridge in November 2010.
Has it been a smooth road?
I think that if you want to keep getting better, it always involves some struggle. Then you learn and move on. That’s how you learn the profession and how you stay fresh twenty-some years later. If you aren’t pushing just a little farther than you feel comfortable, you aren’t growing.
So, as you know, we’re impressed with Bondir Restaurant – tell our readers more, for example what you’re most proud of as a company and what sets you apart from others.
Bondir Cambridge is located in Area 4 or “The Port,” a residential neighborhood in the center of Cambridge, known for its sense of community and its pride in diversity. Its unique location — a few miles from the ocean, a short drive to organic farmland in the six New England States — allow us to cook a “Cambridge Cuisine.” Bondir Cambridge is a cozy, farmhouse-style restaurant with 28 seats and a small fireplace salon. The menus showcase the pastoral and marine bounty of our New England region and offer a finely curated selection of American and European wines and beers. Chef Jason Bond has spent 20 years in restaurants refining his technique and style, and has developed a simple philosophy of quality and care. Our offerings – vegetables picked the same day, fish hours out of the ocean, pasture-raised meats – will change daily and will always be tasteful in preparation and presentation.
Let’s touch on your thoughts about our city – what do you like the most and least?
This is a beautiful city filled with history. People from all over the world come through here and the neighborhood where Bondir sits is one of the most diverse in the city of Boston. It’s also a major port, so I can get anything in the world here. The seafood of course, is wonderful. Although, I do miss Wyoming rainbow brook trout.
Contact Info:
- Address: 279A Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02139 - Website: http://www.bondircambridge.com/
- Phone: 617-661-0009
- Email: info@bondircambridge.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jwadebond/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BondirRestaurant/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/bondircambridge?lang=en
Image Credit:
Andy Ryan Photography, Jason Bond
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