Could 29, 2025
After dominating the East Coast, Chef Kwame Onwuachi is ready to open his first steakhouse on the West Coast.
James Beard Award-winning Chef Kwame Onwuachi will lastly deliver his famend cooking abilities to the West Coast with the opening of his new steakhouse at SAHARA Las Vegas.
After dominating the East Coast together with his scorching spot eateries, New York’s Tatiana and Washington, D.C.’s Dōgon, Onwuachi will debut Maroon, a brand new steakhouse impressed by his signature fusion of Afro-Caribbean jerk cooking strategies. The Bronx native caught the eye of the SAHARA Las Vegas workforce, who invited him to develop a brand-new eating idea for the resort, an announcement revealed.
Onwuachi, who has opened or owned a number of eating places, together with Shaw Bijou and Kith and Kin, is wanting ahead to bringing his revolutionary cooking abilities to the famed Las Vegas Strip.
“I’m excited for this subsequent chapter and the chance to deliver a brand new culinary idea to SAHARA Las Vegas and the town’s dynamic meals scene,” he stated.
The partnership marks one other milestone in Onwuachi’s celebrated culinary profession, which incorporates acclaimed eating places, bestselling books, a standout run on season 13 of Prime Chef, and honors from Meals & Wine, Esquire, and the James Beard Basis for being the “Rising Star Chef of the Yr” in 2019.
“Now we have intently adopted Chef Onwuachi’s profession and deeply admire the numerous impression he has had in New York Metropolis and Washington, D.C., the place he has redefined the eating scene together with his acclaimed delicacies,” stated Paul Hobson, common supervisor of SAHARA Las Vegas. “At SAHARA, he’ll join with a complete new viewers, and we’re honored to welcome him.”
Maroon’s menu will highlight live-fire cooking, jerk rubs, dry-aged cuts, scotch bonnet–infused sauces, grilled seafood, and sides rooted in West African, Jamaican, and Creole traditions. Followers of Onwuachi’s Afro-Caribbean aptitude — seen at Tatiana and Dōgon — will discover lots to savor in his West Coast debut. The restaurant additionally marks a continued rise in Black-owned culinary ventures on the Las Vegas Strip, becoming a member of names like Emmitt Smith’s Steakhouse.
Onwuachi named the brand new steakhouse after the Maroons of Jamaica, enslaved Africans who escaped captivity and constructed unbiased communities within the Blue Mountains. It’s a robust historical past that Onwuachi explored in his e-book, My America: Recipes from a Younger Black Chef.
“There they lived a hardscrabble existence, eking out a life from subsistence farming and occasional raids on the British occupiers,” he wrote.
In his e-book, Onwuachi particulars how the Maroons blended Jamaican pepper, Thai chook chili, wild thyme, and wild hog to create the long-lasting jerk taste we all know right now.
“Jerk was born, and it lives nonetheless 2 hundred years later,” the e-book states.
Chef Kwame Onwuachi’s Maroon at SAHARA Las Vegas is ready to open in late 2025.
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