Chefs

Fresh off a wave of positive reviews for his first memoir, Notes From a Young Black Chef, and a nod at this year’s RAMMY Awards, chef Kwame Onwuachi’s good year continues: The chef of Kith & Kin took home the rising star chef award at…

Kwame Onwuachi, the D.C.-based chef behind Kith and Kin at The Wharf, is one of the most acclaimed young chefs in the country. Now he has a James Beard Award to prove it.

Kith and Kin's Kwame Onwuachi and Tom Cunanan of Bad Saint were both honored.

Chef Kwame Onwuachi may have experienced a very high profile defeat in this city, but he still has faith in D.C.’s restaurant scene.

Chef Michael White is ready for his next act in the District with Nicoletta Italian Kitchen, scheduled to open Friday at 901 4th St. NW.

“Every time it comes it takes a little piece of you away that you can never get back."

Kwame Onwuachi of The Wharf's Kith and Kin is one of Food & Wine magazine’s 10 best new chefs for 2019.

It was the morning after the election of America’s first black president, and Kwame Onwuachi was hungover. He’d been partying all night. He was dealing drugs to survive after he dropped out of college. He was, he says, lost.

Gjerde also leads A Rake's Progress in D.C. and Woodberry Kitchen in Baltimore.

In his new book "A Wealth of Insight," journalist Rahim Kanani talks to 44 culinary legends

Five D.C. restaurants and chefs made it onto the James Beard Foundation Awards finalist lists, whittled down from 20 local semifinalists announced last month.

The finalists for the biggest awards in the food industry are out, and D.C. is represented on the list of 2019 James Beard Award nominees.

José Andrés, chef, restaurateur and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, will focus his humanitarian efforts on his hometown this week, when his nonprofit organization launches a relief kitchen to feed furloughed federal workers in Washington.

As the shutdown stretches into its third week, the Nobel Prize-nominated chef is going beyond free sandwiches.

World Central Kitchen will provide meals during the shutdown, similar to areas hit by natural disasters.

José Andrés is as famous for his high-profile D.C. restaurants as for his efforts to serve meals to communities affected by disasters. With hundreds of thousands of people going without a paycheck in the D.C. region, those two worlds are…

Ever since José Andrés and his small nonprofit group took it upon themselves to feed hungry Puerto Ricans following the near-knockout punch of Hurricane Maria last year, the celebrity chef’s name has been whispered in talk about potential…

How alcohol, infighting, and a sexual harassment scandal turned the prince of DC dining into a pariah.