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When diners arrive to The Shaw Bijou, they are escorted upstairs to a small bar. What do you want to drink? Come into the kitchen, let me feed you, let’s go outside, let’s go into the living room.’ We wanted to keep that feel,” he said. “When you go to your friend’s house, they don’t say, ‘Sit down here for three hours, the bathroom’s that way.’ It’s like, ‘Come to bar. The goal, he says, was to build a restaurant that feels like home. Onwuachi, who recently competed on Season 13 of Bravo’s “Top Chef,” has been working on the concept for roughly 18 months. Vegetarians and vegans, have no fear: Onwuachi has tasting menus for specific diets.

The Shaw Bijou is an eight-table tasting-menu restaurant, located in a 200-year-old restored row house in D.C.’s Shaw neighborhood. It’s not just a few plates that Onwuachi and his team will be putting down in front of diners - it’s roughly 13 courses. “Also, it’s kind of awkward to give someone a menu and then have to take it away because we’re going to be putting plates down.” That’s really why you go to a restaurant,” said Kwame Onwuachi, executive chef at The Shaw Bijou. The restaurant doesn’t even have a menu - just a phone call a few days before dinner to confirm allergies and food preferences. Unlike other buzzed about dining establishments, The Shaw Bijou won’t have a line around the block and guests won’t be packed into an overly crowded dining room. WASHINGTON - After a year and a half of construction, permitting and menu testing, one of D.C.’s most highly anticipated restaurants will open its doors Tuesday. Business & Finance Click to expand menu.Shaw, centered around U Street NW, has been the hub for African-American social, cultural, and economic progress in the nation's capital, seeing on its. Shaw Junior High School was named after Colonel Robert Gould Shaw of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry during the U.S. Named after Shaw Junior High School, a black junior high school located at Seventh and Rhode Island Avenue NW, the Shaw neighborhood has been home to the largest urban population of African-Americans in Washington, D.C. Shaw is a small neighborhood located in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. SHAW Community where is the most fashion and popular area in Washington D.C. The Shaw Bijou was opening at 1544 9TH St. Factors that attracted investors to the Shaw Bijou.No matter the restaurant décor or service concept, The Shaw Bijou is hoping to create a feel to diners at home.

Onwuachi’s 200-plus spice collection is displayed on a wooden shelf in clear glass jars. Even the kitchen looks more like one you’d find in a home than a restaurant, with less stainless steel and more stone, wood and other natural elements. Furniture maker Caleb Woodard was brought on to construct everything from the carved wooden doors to the table bases. When it comes to the restaurant’s design, no detail was overlooked and no expense was spared, down to the plates, which are made by the local ceramics company Cloud Terre. The food and the service are not the only two things given careful attention at The Shaw Bijou. On Icelandic sheepskin chairs, guests work with the restaurant’s mixologists to make their desired cocktails (again, no menu) and have their first course. So, when diners arrive to The Shaw Bijou, they are escorted upstairs to a small bar. What do you want to drink? Come into the kitchen, let me feed you, let’s go outside, let’s go into the living room.’ We wanted to keep that feel.” This restaurant does not have any menu, no matter the dishes or cocktail. The owner of Shaw Bijou Onwuachi said, “When you go to your friend’s house, they don’t say, ‘Sit down here for three hours, the bathroom’s that way.’ It’s like, ‘Come to bar. To ensure every customer comfortable, Shaw Bijou is not setting up a lot of seats to ensure each customer have enough space like at home. Shaw Bijou is more like a home kitchen rather than a restaurant. You don’t go to your friend’s house and order food you go to your friend’s house and they make you a meal. General Manager Gregory Vakiner want diners to feel like they are coming into their friend’s house, and they are just taking care of you.