Louis Hubbell

Polcaris

92 Broadway, Saugus

309 Montvale Ave., Woburn

www.polcaris.com

Regina Pizzeria’s

11 1/2 Thacher Street, Boston,

Other locations also available at www.reginapizza.com,

Having grown up and learn to cook in the Deep South, Chef Phillip Louis Hubbell III went west to LA before coming east and north to become the Corporate Executive Chef of Boston Restaurant Associates in 1993. Along the way, he also served as the chef for Steven Spielberg’s bachelor party and for the MTV Music Awards! He also sits on the Program Advisory Board for Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts. Even so, nothing can compare with bringing his southern flair and charm to the historic recipes of Regina Pizzeria and Polcari’s and making thousands of hungry tourists and local smile!

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Karen Akunowicz

Myers & Chang

1145 Washington Street, Boston

www.myersandchang.com

Having risen from “the swamps of Jersey,” Karen Akunowicz is now “The Boss” at one of Boston’s longest-running dining duets- Myers & Chang. Having started in hospitality as a bartender and manager, the UMass grad was eventually drawn to the flame and enrolled at the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts. After serving at such venerable venues as Ten Tables and Via Matta (where she met half of the dynamic duo for whom she now happily works, Christopher Myers), Akunowicz snuck off to Italy, where she eventually became chef at L’Avion blu Enoteca. When she returned, the service-minded Akunowicz again engaged in chef-ery while also working to engage troubled youth in Lowell by teaching them to cook and inspiring them as she had been (and continues to be) inspired herself. She has also started a successful series of cooking classes at M&C so everyone can learn to have the fun with food that she enjoys every day.

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Samuel Jackson

KO Catering and Pies

87 A Street, South Boston

256 Marginal St | Building 16, 
East Boston

kocateringandpies.com

Not since the days of Paul Hogan has it been so much fun to say “Put another shrimp on the Barbie” for not since then (if even then) has there been such an authentic (and Bonzer) Australian food place in the Boston area. In fact, according to owner Samuel Jackson (no “S”), it is the only place of its kind in all of New England!

From the hand-rolled titular meat and veggie pies, chicken schnitzel burgers and the KO take on fish and chips to mushy peas and fortifying ANZAC cookies, KO knocks out trays of sustainable, locally-sourced Down Under delicacies for one or 100. For “brekky,” lunch or dinner. They even have Australian groceries like Tim Tams and the ever-famous Vegemite.

So whether or not you have dined on devon or even know what it is, take a trip to Southie (and now Eastie!) for some southern hemisphere favorites. No matter what tucker you try, you’ll be taking the “Ken Oath” and joining the “gum tree” soon.

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