James Beard Award-winning chefs and partners Jamie Bissonnette and Ken Oringer have built a veritable restaurant empire. In 2007, Bissonnette was running the kitchen at Eastern Standard when his fellow cookbook-nerd pal Oringer—who was already busy with Clio (now Uni)—proposed he run the kitchen at the now-shuttered KO Prime over post-work drinks. These days, the two co-own and co-chef South End favorites Coppa, an Italian enoteca; Toro, a Barcelona-style tapas bar; and neighborhood restaurant/porron party Little Donkey in Cambridge. In 2013, Bissonnette and Oringer brought Toro to New York City and received rave reviews; later, they extended the concept to Bangkok and Dubai. Somehow they manage to balance their partnership and individual projects while keeping their restaurants as fresh and exciting as ever.