"An intimate Italian restaurant and pastificio owned by James Beard Award-winning chef Karen Akunowicz, this spot will host a high-end chefs’ dinner featuring celebrity guests and a four-course menu; VIP ticket-holders get an exclusive cocktail hour with the chefs, making it a formal, chef-forward evening celebrating refined Italian cooking and hospitality." - Nathan Tavares
"Chef Ken Vedrinski has returned to the peninsula with a four-course, family-style Italian experience priced at $65, focusing on communal, traditional dishes and a relaxed take on Italian dining following his earlier island seafood work." - Erin Perkins
"Unlike its northern Italian predecessor, the Fox & the Knife, chef Karen Akunowicz’s Bar Volpe places emphasis on the phenomenal flavors of southern Italy. The South Boston restaurant serves as both a dining room and a store where fresh pasta can be bought by the pound to take home. Make sure to try the hand-crafted Sardinian culurgiones stuffed with goat cheese and potato served over a tomato basil sauce." - Erika Adams
"Chef Karen Akunowicz’s second restaurant in Southie has a 25-seat main bar housed in a former Airstream that’s been given a marble-topped, glamorous revamp before opening. It’s the perfect spot to set up shop for a solo meal of farro arancini, burrata pomodoro and lamb ragu orecchiette – or whatever you desire. The fare is made even better because you don’t have to share." - Nathan Tavares
"As tempting as it is to overeat at Karen Akunowicz’s second Southie enoteca, make sure you save room for the dessert — namely, the mocha cannoli. This beauty features a cannoli shell that’s dipped in melted dark chocolate, filled with coffee-spiked riccotta, and topped off with gold sprinkles. Think of it like an after-dinner coffee in dessert form." - Nathan Tavares, Erika Adams