Ever since they met as competitors on Season 13 of Top Chef, Kwame Onwuachi and Karen Akunowicz have delighted in one another's dreams. There's been plenty of hard work and hustle along the way, along with some setbacks, but together they cheered and together they soared. In this special edition of Communal Table recorded in a gondola ride up Aspen Mountain during the Food & Wine Classic, the 2019 Best New Chef and Best New Restaurant winners—along with Onwuachi's fiancée Mya Allen and Akunowicz's executive sous chef Molly Dwyer—looked back on the journey as they rose to the top.

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