You’ve been there. Inside that small Caribbean restaurant down the block, staring on the juicy patties, filled with spicy meat or veggies. And then you definitely look on the clear counter cabinets holding a loaf of coco bread, and also you suppose, “If only for a minute, I may smoosh them collectively for the final word sandwich.”
EBONY cowl star and Energy 100 awardee Kwame Onwuachi is making these scrumptious desires a actuality. The famed chef and Tatiana restaurant proprietor has launched Patty Palace, an off-the-cuff eating spot inside Citi Subject in Queens, N.Y. It is going to formally open on April 4, when the Mets baseball workforce performs its first dwelling sport on the stadium.
“As a New York Metropolis child, grabbing a patty with coco bread from the native Jamaican spot after college was a staple—fast, filling, at all times satisfying,” Onwuachi wrote on Instagram. “Now, having Patty Palace inside Mets stadium, repping at each the Hudson Whiskey Membership and Clover Market, is surreal. Curry rooster patties, coco bread, ginger cabbage slaw, inexperienced seasoning aioli, jerk BBQ sauce—extra areas opening quickly!!!!!
The star participant on this menu is the rooster patty. Onwuachi stews up curried rooster as its filling after which serves it on coco bread, which is topped with jerk barbecue seasoning, inexperienced sauce and a ginger-cabbage slaw.
Along with the Queens location, Onwuachi plans to open a meals truck in Manhattan’s Lincoln Heart Plaza, proper exterior Tatiana restaurant. He’ll increase the menu to incorporate a vegetarian mushroom patty and different tasty concoctions.
In September 2024, Onwuachi opened Dōgon, an Afro-Caribbean restaurant contained in the Salamander lodge in Washington, D.C.
This newest enterprise is his ever-expanding mission to current meals roots that discover and honor African diaspora cuisines, particularly people who characterize his Nigerian, Jamaican, Trinidadian and Creole heritages.