D.C.’s 38 Best Restaurants | Eater DC

"Celebrity chef Kwame Onwuachi made a hotly anticipated return to D.C.’s dining scene in fall 2024 with an Afro-Caribbean restaurant situated at the foot of the 373-room Salamander Washington DC. Dōgon pays homage to D.C.’s late-1700s land surveyor Benjamin Banneker and his ties to the West African Dōgon tribe. Onwuachi’s menu explores his own Nigerian, Jamaican, Trinidadian, and Creole heritage, including barbecue greens with candied Cipollini onions, roasted garlic, and beef bacon; plantain hoe cakes; carrot tigua (pickled onion, peanut crustacean stew, burnt carrots); and “H Street” chicken and rice with Ethiopian berbere spices, jollof rice, and herbs. Drinks designed by vet D.C. mixologist Derek Brown are also not to miss. Must-try dish: Coco bread with malted sorghum butter" - Tierney Plumb