Dōgon-Kwame Onwuachi’s forthcoming restaurant in Southwest DC’s Salamander hotel (formerly the Mandarin Oriental)-marks the James Beard Award winning chef’s first new venture in our city since he left Kith & Kin in 2020. The new restaurant-opening date TBD-will pointedly honor DC’s Black history: “I firmly believe that a restaurant should have a story, because when it has a story it has a soul,” Onwuachi said in a press release.