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Northshore October 2025
In January 2017, Alan Donovan opened Oat Shop in Davis Square, turning heads with his restaurant’s concept: a café specializing in oatmeal. The Boston area’s first oatmeal café turns five this winter. And they don’t just do breakfast. Oat Shop cooks up both classic sweet and unconventional savory oatmeal bowls. While sweet options include time-honored flavors like apple, cinnamon, and maple syrup, the savory bowls can feature fried eggs, bacon, and cheesy oats.  Owner Alan Donovan went to work in finance in Washington, D.C., after graduating from Holy Cross in 2013. “Working in an office job surrounded by a lot of busy pe
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