Buzz

Aside from the promised start of summer, June also brings us the return of Resy’s Women of Food series. As such, we’ve highlighted below just a small sampling of the abundant female talent Boston’s restaurant scene has to offer.

By Eric Twardzik

3. Bar Volpe

South Boston

South Boston has enjoyed something of a neighborhood food renaissance over these last five years, but it’s Karen Akunowicz who put it on the map, first with Fox & The Knife and followed by Bar Volpe. Fortunately, Volpe has avoided the sophomore slump with a thoughtful menu of Southern Italian-inspired dishes like grilled octopus with chickpea stew and rose harissa, fresh casarecce pasta with squid ink and lobster, and a large-format Sardinian paella with fregola, artichokes, shellfish, and ‘njuda.