Asian Bites

Location

450 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 (map)
(617) 661-4900
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About Moksa

Located in the heart of Central Square at 450 Massachusetts Ave in Cambridge, Chef Patricia Yeo and restauranteur Solmon Chowdhury introduce Boston’s first Pan Asian Izakaya.
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The space was formerly home to the historic Central Square theatre and now serves as a destination where Chef Patricia Yeo transports guests to a street vending experience in Asia with her locally sourced and approachable menu of exceptional small plates.
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MOKSA boasts a unique beverage program heavily inspired by unique Asian ingredients, local brewers, vitners, distillers and farms.
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About the Chef

Patricia Yeo has been winning acclaim for her unique cuisine ever since her first restaurant, AZ, opened in 1999. By melding elements of an international upbringing that took her from Malaysia to England to the United States with a precision that she honed as a trained scientist, she has created an innovative, elegant cuisine. Her culinary alchemy was summarized by The New York Times’ William Grimes who enthused in his three-star review at AZ, “In dish after dish, she shows a rare combination of audacity and refinement, sustained with admirable consistency over the entire menu.”
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She was on her way to completing a biochemistry degree at Princeton University when she enrolled in a cooking class at the New York Restaurant School. Inspired, she turned in her lab coat for chef whites. While attending culinary school, she met Bobby Flay and the two chefs had an instant rapport. Yeo and Flay worked together at the Miracle Grill, Mesa Grill and Bolo.
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Yeo moved to the West Coast to work at China Moon, run by celebrated cookbook author and Chinese scholar Barbara Tropp. Tropp taught Yeo the basic philosophies behind true Asian cooking, further educating her on the adept use of unusual ingredients.
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Yeo returned to Manahattan to open Bolo with Flay but found herself nostalgic for the flavors and aromas of Asian cuisine. She seized the opportunity to move back to California to open Hawthorne Lane under Chef Anne Gingrass. There, Yeo received rave reviews, earning three stars from the San Francisco Chronicle for her inventive fusion cuisine.
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In 1999, Yeo opened the eclectic Asian-inspired American restaurant, AZ, in Manhattan. New York Magazine’s Gael Greene wrote “every dish cries out for a camera—before the mouth engages the complex texture and audacious flavors.” Three star reviews from all of New York City’s major local papers followed. AZ inspired a cookbook, Cooking from A to Z with Patricia Yeo (St. Martin’s Press) which was released nationally in November 2002. At her second endeavor, Pazo, Yeo applied her signature style to the re-discovery of the Mediterranean.
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2004 at Sapa, a French and Southeast Asian eatery in Chelsea she was able to apply much of her inspiration from her travels through Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand. In October of 2005 she published her second cookbook, Everyday Asian (St. Martin’s Press).
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In late 2007, Patricia moved to South East Asia to learn the food ways and culture of the region. While traveling in Asia she worked as a restaurant consultant for various hotels and boutique resorts.
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In 2009, Patricia moved from New York to Boston to open Ginger Park. The introduction of world-renowned chef, Patricia Yeo, to Boston illustrates the thriving culinary scene in the city. Yeo is thrilled to be engrossed in Boston’s burgeoning restaurant renaissance. Now in Cambridge at Om Restaurant & Lounge and MoKsa Restaurant, Patricia brings innovative and inspirational cooking in theme with both restaurants’ Asian-Fusion palates.
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