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The restaurant's cuisine honors family and legacy, with dishes that celebrate his ancestors and resurrect the histories of the Black and brown communities displaced in the 1950s when the construction of Lincoln Center razed the neighborhood known as San Juan Hill. Tatiana is named after Kwame's big sister, who looked after him at home in the Bronx while their mother was at work.

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When Lincoln Center invited Kwame to open his own restaurant last year in the newly renovated David Geffen Hall, his expression was given free rein. There, his execution of an autobiographical Afro-Caribbean menu was rewarded with the James Beard Rising Star Chef of the Year award. The economic model didn't work and the restaurant closed after only 11 weeks, but he brought the same inspiration to his next gig, a restaurant he named Kith and Kin. His vision was radical: an elevated, high-end tasting menu of the cuisines that shape his identity and his roots in Nigeria, the bayou and the Bronx.

Kwame's big break came in 2015, when he competed on Top Chef and won the hearts of the television audience, the media and backers who helped him open his first restaurant, the Shaw Bijou, in Washington, D.C. Back in New York, he enrolled in culinary school and thrived, graduating straight into a job at the Michelin-starred Eleven Madison Park. The Shaw Bijou Gregory Vakiner and Kwame Onwuachi became friends after meeting in culinary school and soon began collaborating throughout the course of. After getting kicked out of college, he moved to Louisiana and cooked for a crew cleaning up the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Drugs and gangs were part of a tough upbringing in the South Bronx. For The New York Times to choose it as the best restaurant in the city five months after it opens? Well, that's kind of crazy.īut then, Chef Kwame Onwuachi's rise to superstar chefdom has been a little crazy. We hope that DC continues to support us and welcome us into its home, much like we cannot wait to invite you into ours.It's pretty unusual for a 32-year-old chef to open his own restaurant in Manhattan. This being our first restaurant, and for some a first business venture, we had a substantial amount of learning and adjusting to do. Humility creeps up on you when least expected, and the opening of this restaurant has taught us just that. In order to continue to invite and welcome people into our home, The Shaw Bijou, will now only offer a 7 course-tasting menu, which includes a welcome cocktail, for $95 beginning Tuesday, January 3. So, with the spirit of the New Year, we adjusted our concept with the people of DC in mind. The Shaw Bijou’s vision was simply an extension of a 5-year dream of ours and while achieving that goal, we fostered an environment and restaurant that was not reasonable for all.

I came to this city because of the energy.

When people ask me “why DC?” my immediate response is always “DC chose me.” And it did.

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Here’s the full letter sent out from the team, explaining the new plan. Top Chef alum and Shaw Bijou co-founder Kwame Onwuachi is coloring in the menu at Kith and Kin the new restaurant he’s opening this fall inside the InterContinental Hotel at the Wharf complex with culinary touchstones reflecting his diverse heritage and world travels. UPDATE: A spokesperson confirms drink pairing options will still be available, and the bar will continue to operate as before next year. Shaw Bijou opened in early November to much hype, due mostly to the chef’s rising profile and the restaurant’s 185-per-head price for a 17-course tasting menu. Since then, The Shaw Bijou has made some concessions to appeal to a larger dining base, including nixing its plans for a members-only bar, and opening the bar to walk-ins (with an a la carte menu). The restaurant received a tepid preview from The Washington Post upon opening. Dinner for two could stretch close to $1,000 at a restaurant from a chef opening his first place in D.C. When the restaurant first opened in early November, it debuted with an $185 per person tasting menu as a starting price, not including drink pairings. It will now exclusively offer a seven-course menu, including a welcome cocktail, for $95. The restaurant announced today in a press release that it is changing its concept, which includes dropping its pricing. Top chef alumnus Kwame Onwuachi’s restaurant, The Shaw Bijou, has dropped its prices dramatically.