With each restaurant in his pocket, Kwame Onwuachi invites us to take another step into his heritage. Washington D.C’s Dōgon by Kwame Onwuachi traces his ancestral ties to the West African Dōgon tribe, while at Las' Lap , his first foray into South Beach, he nods to his Trinidadian and Caribbean roots . At Tatiana, one of the best restaurants in New York right now , he shows his endearment for the concrete city that raised him. At Patty Palace, Onwuachi is continuing to show love for all things NYC, honing in on his favorite childhood snack: the Jamaican patty.

So, why the humble patty? Before the buzz of , awards and wholly successful Family Reunion , Onwuachi was just another kid growing up in the Bronx. Like many of his classmates, his after-schoo

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