Tim & Nancy Cushman to Open Hojoko at Verb Hotel

That mysterious "big name chef" promised by The Verb Hotel, which opens today near Fenway? They weren't lying. Tim and Nancy Cushman of O Ya will open a new restaurant called Hojoko at the hotel this fall, reports Boston Magazine. It will be "fun and funky," a "high-energy izakaya." Is the name a play on the hotel's former life as a HoJo's?

The Cushmans have also been busy expanding to New York, opening up a rooftop restaurant at a fancy hotel, while they have additional concepts reportedly in the works for that same hotel.
· Tim and Nancy Cushman opening second Boston restaurant [BM]