The Breakfast Club: How Faust and Walsh forged an unlikely friendship (The Boston Globe)

June 24, 2021

On Friday morning, as customers streamed into the cramped dining room of McKenna’s Cafe in Dorchester, two of the city’s most recognizable leaders sat down for one last breakfast.

Amid the clatter of coffee cups and morning din, no one seemed to take much notice as Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh and Harvard University president Drew Faust sat at a small table in the back and talked quietly.