Bites
Video interview with Kwame Onwuachi
James Beard Award. Voted New York’s number one restaurant for two years running. And yet he says: “You don’t cook for fine dining. You cook for flavour.”
02 May 2026
Kwame Onwuachi is one of the most influential chefs of our time – featured on the TIME 100 list, with his own restaurants in New York, Washington D.C. and, soon, Las Vegas. In this interview, he talks about why street food has long since reached fine-dining standards, how to reinterpret a dish without stripping it of its soul – and why, ultimately, authenticity is always a question of one’s own history.
