This cache is a field puzzle. The coordinates will bring you to the window along the left side of a restaurant. Once there, find the pug and figure out how to get him to give you the combiniation to the nearby lockbox near the street. Inside the lockbox you will find the log. You do not need to go inside the restaurant unless you are hungry.
Tracy Chang & Her Pug
Tracy Chang’s fondest childhood memories are those from her grandmother’s Japanese restaurant in Cambridge. Chin-Fun Shiue immigrated to Boston in the 1980's decided in her late 60s, to open restaurants including Boston's premier Japanese restaurant in the 1990s, Tokyo Restaurant.
While earning her B.S. in Finance from Boston College, Tracy worked at Tim Cushman’s O Ya. She then went on to study with MOF Pâtissier Nicolas Bernardé at Le Cordon Bleu Paris.
From Paris, she traveled to Spain, where she won a scholarship to cook alongside Chef Martín Berasategui at his Michelin three-star restaurant in San Sebastian.
Tracy returned to Boston and co-founded Guchi’s Midnight Ramen collaborating with Bondir, No. 9 Park, Sportello, Stir, The Gallows, JM Curley, MIT, The West End House Boys and Girls Club, Bocoup, Adelphic Mobile, Locately, Harvard Business School, The Barbara Lynch Foundation, 3 Princes Consulting and TEDxCambridge.
In 2012, Tracy joined the Harvard Science + Cooking program as a teaching fellow.
With the help of Jesse Baerkahn, she found the perfect home for her new restaurant nestled between Central Square and MIT, and used a name derived from the Japanese translation of pug. She has had black pugs ever since she was a child.
In 2020 and 2024, Chef Chang was a semifinalist for James Beard’s “Best Chef: Northeast” and in 2023, her restaurant was a semifinalist for Outstanding Restaurant.
This cache is part of RetiredGuy's Great Chefs of Boston Series of caches:
