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Number 25 on the 2025 list
Kwame Onwuachi is a chef and restaurateur from Nigeria, named to the AFN 100 in 2025 for seeing Dōgon named among America's 50 best restaurants by The New York Times.
In September 2025 The New York Times named Dōgon, Kwame Onwuachi's Washington restaurant, one of the 50 best restaurants in the United States. The same month his New York restaurant Tatiana won Travel Noire's 2025 Best Black-Owned Restaurant title, with judges praising how it preserves culture through food. Onwuachi, whose father is Nigerian, cooks with Nigerian, Jamaican, Trinidadian and Louisiana Creole flavours.