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Is Little Donkey Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update (Cambridge, MA)

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 8 Cambridge, Massachusetts

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Little Donkey is listed open on littledonkeybos.com, reviewed by our team on September 7, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

What the source shows: Little Donkey's own website was live on 2026-09-08 with active links for online ordering and reservations and posted current Thursday-Saturday dinner and bar hours. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate? 2 episodes

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 8, Episode 5

Little Donkey appeared in the episode 'Throwback,' with the segment centered on the Cambridge restaurant's global small-plates and tapas menu. Little Donkey is a tapas restaurant at 505 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge. According to Little Donkey's own website (littledonkeybos.com), the site was live on 2026-09-08 with active links for online ordering and reservations, and it described the restaurant as offering a rotating, globally inspired small-plates menu. The site listed current hours of Thursday dinner service from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday-Saturday service from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., with a separate bar opening at 4 p.m. on weekends. The page also listed the business's phone number and Massachusetts Avenue address, matching the location on file, and provided a location-and-hours page alongside its menu and reservations links.

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 40, Episode 6 Aired

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featured Little Donkey of Cambridge, Massachusetts in the episode "Wide World of Chefs," which aired October 4, 2024. Little Donkey, at 505 Massachusetts Ave, describes itself on its website as "a global tapas restaurant." A website check on September 8, 2026 found littledonkeybos.com online with an active online ordering and reservation system.

The episodes Best Thing I Ever Ate

Air date not confirmed
Title: Throwback · What was featured: Little Donkey's global small-plates and tapas menu
Aired
Title: Wide World of Chefs · What was featured: the restaurant's global tapas small plates

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  1. littledonkeybos.com http://www.littledonkeybos.com
  2. littledonkeybos.com http://www.littledonkeybos.com/
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Record btiea-0587 · checked by Cal Marchetti.