Goals can come true with the latest announcement that Chef Kwame Onwuachi returns to D.C. to create a brand new eating expertise at Salamander Washington, the resort owned by enterprise chief Sheila Johnson. The restaurant will open later this 12 months. Onwuachi at the moment owns Tatiana, rated as probably the greatest eating places in New York Metropolis. He’s additionally a best-selling writer of a number of books, together with the memoir “Notes from a Younger Black Chef” and the cookbook “My America: Recipes from a Younger Black Chef.”
Onwuachi was govt chef at “Kith and Kin,” a profitable D.C. restaurant. Like many eating institutions, that restaurant hit a tough patch with the pandemic. He left that restaurant expressing his need for Black possession of a restaurant, which was not the case at “Kith and Kin.”
“The time is correct to return to D.C., and I can’t consider a extra applicable location to open a brand new restaurant that speaks to the character and lineage of D.C. than at this storied Salamander property,” mentioned Onwuachi in a press release from Salamander. “As a baby, I spent summers in D.C. with my grandfather, a professor of Pan-African research at Howard College, who shared his ardour for the town with me. I fell in love and may’t wait to return.”
The brand new restaurant builds on an current relationship between Johnson and Onwuachi as they created “The Household Reunion,” a celebration of range inside the hospitality trade. The occasion returns this 12 months to Salamander Resort in Middleburg, Virginia, from August 17-20.
