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 Chef/Co-Owner of Clio, Uni, KO Prime, La Verdad and Toro 
When you start out being voted "Most Likely to Succeed" at the Culinary Institute of America, and you win a James Beard Award (Best Chef: Northeast) by the time you're 30, chances are your career is going to continue non-stop, and Ken Oringer's varied roster of restaurants in Boston prove that his talent is both versatile and durable.
After training under David Burke and Jean-Georges Vongerichten, operating a tiny trattoria called Terra, and winning raves from the likes of Gourmet and Conde Nast Traveler for his flair and finesse at Silks in San Francisco, Ken moved to Massachusetts and opened the ground-breaking CLIO in 1997. This internationally acclaimed French dining room quickly gained momentum into the millennium, with countless accolades and "bests" heaped upon it; until Ken was eventually nominated for and won a James Beard Award for Best Chef: Northeast in 2001. Ken opened Uni, Boston's most unique sashimi bar, in 2002; a Spanish tapas establishment called Toro in 2005; and both KO Prime steakhouse and a rustic Mexican cantina at Fenway Park called La Verdad in 2007. In 2008, Ken and his wife Celine welcomed a new addition to his Boston-based enterprises; a daughter named Verveine. |
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