For a chef who had opened a new restaurant an hour ago, Kwame Onwuachi looked very calm. The place is called Sirius, and it is a four-seat tasting counter inside another restaurant, Dogon.

Why it matters: Onwuachi's star has risen with every restaurant opening — the New York Times crowned his latest, Tatiana, #1 in NYC — and this next debut is a buzzed-about homecoming. Catch up ...

Kwame Onwuachi is the chef of Tatiana in New York City and competed on Top Chef season 13. In 2019, he was a Food & Wine Best New Chef, the James Beard Foundation's Rising Star Chef of the Year ...