Karen Akunowicz

Fox & The Knife - Boston

Chef Karen Akunowicz is a celebrity chef, restaurateur and the 2018 James Beard Foundation Award winner for Best Chef: Northeast. In 2020, her debut restaurant Fox & the Knife was a James Beard Award finalist for Best New Restaurant in America.

Chef Karen is the Chef/Owner of Fox & the Knife Enoteca in South Boston, Bar Volpe Ristorante, and Fox Pasta Company Chef Karen has been touted as “Boston’s Queen of Pasta” and her restaurant Fox & the Knife was called an “Instant Classic” by Food & Wine Magazine and named one of their “Best New Restaurants in America”. In 2024 Chef Karen opened her third restaurant, Fox & Flight by Karen Akunowicz in Logan Airport in Boston.

Chef Akunowicz is a well-known television personality as a fan favorite on Bravo TV’s Emmy-nominated show “Top Chef” (seasons Season 13 as well as “All-Stars”). She is a rising star on The Food Network’s “Tournament of Champions 3-5 and has appeared as a judge on Top Chef, Top Chef Canada, America’s Worst Cooks, Guy’s Grocery Games and America’s Test Kitchen Next Generation. She is a recurring Judge on “Beat Bobby Flay”.

Karen was named one of the “21 Badass Women Changing the Food World” by Marie Claire Magazine and is the author of “Crave: Bold Recipes That Make You Want Seconds” which was published in September of 2023 by W.W. Norton.