Restaurant Review: Kith and Kin
A couple weeks ago restaurants in Washington DC were starting to open for outdoor dining after our Covid-19 stay at home orders were lifted. My boyfriend and I decided it was a perfect time to go back to one of our neighborhood favorites, Kith and Kin at the Wharf in Southwest DC. It was also the first restaurant on my list to review as part of my new mission to highlight wonderful black-owned restaurants or those run by a black head chef. The Restaurant Kith and Kin is an Afro-Caribbean restaurant, run by executive chef and James Beard Rising Star winner Kwame Onwuachi. Kwame got inspired after the election of Barack Obama to reboot his life and start cooking. He worked at top NYC restaurants before deciding to open his own restaurant to forge his own path, free of the unspoken racism he experienced as a young black chef. He told one story of alerting his head chef about a word on the menu that was also a racial slur, and the head chef bluntly told him that black people don'
