A James Beard Award-Winning New York Chef Is Opening a Restaurant at Sahara Las Vegas
Kwame Onwuachi. | Lanna Apisukh/Eater NY A new restaurant from Kwame Onwuachi will open in the current Bazaar Meat space by late 2025 James Beard Award-winning chef Kwame Onwuachi is opening his first West Coast restaurant in Las Vegas at Sahara in late 2025. The restaurant will go into the space that José Andrés’s Bazaar Meat steakhouse currently occupies. Bazaar Meat is set to close on June 30, 2025 after more than a decade at Sahara; it will move just down the street, reopening at the Palazzo at the Venetian Resort. Onwuachi is best known for his New York City restaurant Tatiana (which was awarded the 2023 World’s 50 Best The One to Watch) and Washington, D.C.’s Dōgon. At both restaurants, Onwuachi serves his take on Afro-Caribbean cuisine. Tatiana’s menu features dishes like curried goat patties with a sweet mango chutney and braised oxtails, while Dōgon serves curry branzino, charbroiled oysters, and a grilled wagyu short rib with red stew jam. Onwuachi has also written two books: memoir Notes from a Young Black Chef and cookbook My America: Recipes from a Young Black Chef. In 2013, Onwuachi competed in season 13 of Bravo’s Top Chef and then in 2019, the San Francisco Chronicle called Onwuachi “the most important chef in America.” That same year, he won the James Beard Award for Emerging Chef. While minimal details about Onwuachi’s new Vegas project have been shared, a statement from Sahara says it is an original concept and not a second location of one of his existing restaurants. “We have closely followed Chef Onwuachi’s career and deeply admire the significant impact he has had in New York City and Washington, D.C., where he has redefined the dining scene with his acclaimed cuisine,” says Paul Hobson, the general manager of Sahara in a statement. “At Sahara, he will connect with a whole new audience, and we are honored to welcome him.” Onwuachi’s new restaurant will join a slate of noteworthy openings from out of town chefs and operators that continue to see opportunity in Las Vegas’s restaurant scene including the expansion of New York’s Michelin-starred Korean steakhouse Cote, a new exclusive members-only club, and sandwich shop Turkey and the Wolf, along with recent arrivals like Jeremy Ford’s Stubbord Seed.
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A new restaurant from Kwame Onwuachi will open in the current Bazaar Meat space by late 2025
James Beard Award-winning chef Kwame Onwuachi is opening his first West Coast restaurant in Las Vegas at Sahara in late 2025. The restaurant will go into the space that José Andrés’s Bazaar Meat steakhouse currently occupies. Bazaar Meat is set to close on June 30, 2025 after more than a decade at Sahara; it will move just down the street, reopening at the Palazzo at the Venetian Resort.
Onwuachi is best known for his New York City restaurant Tatiana (which was awarded the 2023 World’s 50 Best The One to Watch) and Washington, D.C.’s Dōgon. At both restaurants, Onwuachi serves his take on Afro-Caribbean cuisine. Tatiana’s menu features dishes like curried goat patties with a sweet mango chutney and braised oxtails, while Dōgon serves curry branzino, charbroiled oysters, and a grilled wagyu short rib with red stew jam. Onwuachi has also written two books: memoir Notes from a Young Black Chef and cookbook My America: Recipes from a Young Black Chef. In 2013, Onwuachi competed in season 13 of Bravo’s Top Chef and then in 2019, the San Francisco Chronicle called Onwuachi “the most important chef in America.” That same year, he won the James Beard Award for Emerging Chef.
While minimal details about Onwuachi’s new Vegas project have been shared, a statement from Sahara says it is an original concept and not a second location of one of his existing restaurants. “We have closely followed Chef Onwuachi’s career and deeply admire the significant impact he has had in New York City and Washington, D.C., where he has redefined the dining scene with his acclaimed cuisine,” says Paul Hobson, the general manager of Sahara in a statement. “At Sahara, he will connect with a whole new audience, and we are honored to welcome him.” Onwuachi’s new restaurant will join a slate of noteworthy openings from out of town chefs and operators that continue to see opportunity in Las Vegas’s restaurant scene including the expansion of New York’s Michelin-starred Korean steakhouse Cote, a new exclusive members-only club, and sandwich shop Turkey and the Wolf, along with recent arrivals like Jeremy Ford’s Stubbord Seed.
