Kwame Onwuachi

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.

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.

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 Kith and Kin chef gets personal about his background in "Notes From a Young Black Chef"