Kwame Onwuachi Returns to DC With a New Restaurant
By Michael McCarthyBy Michael McCarthy|April 11, 2024|Food & Drink, People, Feature,
Kwame Onwuachi opens a new resto on the southwest waterfront.
Kwame Onwuachi is back. The talented toque, named by the James Beard Foundation as a Rising Star Chef of the Year and whose Tatiana was named New York’s best restaurant last year by the New York Times, opens Dogon by Kwame Onwuachi (dogondc.com) this spring at Salamander Washington, DC (salamanderhotels.com). Pronounced “Doh-gon,” the restaurant’s menu focuses on dishes through an Afro-Caribbean lens and draws from Onwuachi’s unique Nigerian, Jamaican, Trinidadian and Creole heritage. We caught up with the chef as he preps for the big opening.
The most important thing you’ve ever learned about cooking? Patience. Patience when creating a dish, and with staff, guests, contractors and everything you do.
What’s your earliest food memory? Eating curried goat roti with my grandmother.
Essential kitchen tool? Music
How would you describe your style of cooking? Rooted in intention
What would people find the most surprising about you? I love fast food.
What are you most excited about regarding your new restaurant? Seeing the amazing people that live in DC again. A restaurant is a place people go to escape. I’m happy I can provide that for people again in the nation’s capital.