Ken Oringer (born 1965 in Paramus, New Jersey) is a Boston-based chef[1] who is a business partner of Jamie Bissonnette.
[2] Oringer studied restaurant management at Bryant College in Rhode Island (class of 1987)[3] followed by a degree from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York.
Next, he briefly operated Terra Ristorante Italiano, founded by restaurateur Paul Ardaji in Greenwich, Connecticut, which won three stars from The NY Times.
[6] In 1992, Oringer moved to San Francisco and became chef de cuisine at Silks in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.
[14] In 2016, Oringer and his partner Jamie Bissonnette opened up a "global tapas" restaurant, called Little Donkey, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.