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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE

CHEF KWAME ONWUACHI CELEBRATES
HIS NEW COOKBOOK
“ALL HOURS”
WITH A NATIONWIDE DINNER SERIES AND
LANDMARK LIVE COOKING EVENT
AT LINCOLN CENTER THEATER, PRESENTED BY RESY 

DINNER SERIES TO TAKE PLACE ACROSS THE COUNTRY
AT VARIOUS RESTAURANTS,
WITH SPECIAL LIVE COOKING EVENT AND INTERACTIVE SHOW
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FRESHDIRECT
AT LINCOLN CENTER THEATER IN NEW YORK CITY ON SEPTEMBER 22

New York, NY (August 19, 2026) – James Beard Award^® winning chef Kwame Onwuachi celebrates the launch of his highly anticipated cookbook, ALL HOURS: Crazy Good Food for Whatever, Whenever, with a late-night-inspired event at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater on Lincoln Center’s campus and a series of specially curated dinners across the country, presented by Resy.

Inspired by the recipes and cravings featured in ALL HOURS, these exclusive experiences will bring Chef Kwame’s cookbook to life through food, conversation, and interactive programming.

On September 22 – the day ALL HOURS hits shelves – Kwame will bring the spirit of the book to Lincoln Center Theater’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater for an intimate theatrical evening, presented by Resy, in partnership with Lincoln Center Theater and FreshDirect. The evening will feature a live experience that moves seamlessly between conversation, cooking, and performance stories, showcasing the flavors and inspiration behind the cookbook. Kwame will host guests for live talks and interactive cooking demonstrations. FreshDirect will bring the culinary experience to life with a Bronx-inspired bodega-style display that pays homage to Kwame’s upbringing and features some of his favorite ingredients.

Attendees will receive a co-branded ALL HOURS x FreshDirect gift bag featuring the cookbook and Kwame’s favorite picks.

The line-up is as follows all in partnership with Resy:

• Wednesday, September 16:
  • ‘All Hours’ Dinner at Dōgon by Kwame Onwuachi, Salamander Washington DC
• Thursday, September 17
  • ‘All Hours’ Dinner at Maroon by Kwame Onwuachi, SAHARA Las Vegas
• Saturday, September 19 
  • ‘All Hours’ Dinner at Cookbook Larchmont
• Monday, September 21
  • Kwame Onwuachi x Fish Cheeks ‘All Hours’ Collab Dinner
• Tuesday, September 22  
  • 7pm to 9pm:  ‘All Hours’ with Kwame & Friends Live at the Mitzi E. Newhouse, presented by Resy with Lincoln Center Theater and FreshDirect
  • 9pm to 11pm: ‘All Hours’ After Party at TATIANA
• Thursday, September 24 
  • ‘All Hours’ Dinner at TATIANA by Kwame Onwuachi
• Friday, September 25 
  • ‘All Hours’ Dinner at TATIANA by Kwame Onwuachi
• Saturday, September 26 
  • Kwame Onwuachi x Zahav ‘All Hours’ Collab Dinner

Tickets can be purchased at: https://www.lct.org/shows/all-hours-with-kwame-friends/

For more information, please visit: https://sites.prh.com/preview/ff654eb3-f433-4f47-b833-2a1d504139d6

ALL HOURS is Onwuachi’s follow-up to his critically acclaimed memoir Notes from a Young Black Chef, and gathers the bold, craveable recipes that keep him going around the clock, from morning dishes like Corn Milk French Toast and the Bodega BEC, to afternoon staples like Souped-Up Top Ramen and Red Stew Chicken Parm, to late-night and party fare including Drunken Noodles alla Vodka, Creole Sausage Roll-Ups and Brussels Sprout Suya. The book also includes showstopping dishes from Onwuachi’s restaurants, among them the Cosmic Brownie with Powdered Donut Mousse and his own take on the Bougie Chopped Cheese.

ALL HOURS is available for pre-order at: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/753009/all-hours-by-kwame-onwuachi-and-joshua-david-stein/

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Contact for Chef Kwame Onwuachi:
Carma Connected | teamkwame@carmaconnected.com

ABOUT ALL HOURS

From Kwame Onwuachi, one of the most important chefs in America and the visionary behind Tatiana, the New York Times #1 Restaurant in New York City, comes a new cookbook, All Hours: Crazy Good Food for Whatever, Whenever (Knopf Cooks, on sale September 22, 2026, $40). As one of the world’s top chefs, Kwame Onwuachi is always on the go; but no matter when or where he’s eating, it’s going to be good. In All Hours, he shares the recipes that keep him going 24/7, so that everyone can get a taste, even when they can’t get a table at one of his red-hot restaurants.

ABOUT CHEF KWAME ONWUACHI & FIFTH FLOOR HOSPITALITY

Fifth Floor Hospitality is the restaurant and hospitality group of James Beard Award-winning chef Kwame Onwuachi, home to Tatiana (New York, NY), Dōgon (Washington, DC), and Maroon (Las Vegas, NV). Founded in 2018, the company takes its name from Bruh-Man from the Fifth Flo’, the beloved recurring character from the classic television series Martin, a neighbor who climbed down the fire escape into Martin’s apartment, helped himself to whatever he needed, and made himself completely at home without ever waiting for an invitation. That spirit defines every Fifth Floor experience: a host who anticipates every desire, a table where you belong, and hospitality that takes care of you before you even know what you need.

Raised in New York City, Nigeria, and Louisiana, Chef Onwuachi began his culinary journey in his mother’s modest Bronx apartment and went on to train at the Culinary Institute of America before becoming one of the most celebrated culinary voices of his generation and a champion of Afro-Caribbean cuisine. Named one of Food & Wine’s Best New Chefs, Esquire’s 2019 Chef of the Year, a Forbes and Zagat 30 Under 30 honoree, a Time 100 Most Influential Person of 2025, and called the most important chef in America by the San Francisco Chronicle, he is also the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Notes from a Young Black Chef, currently being adapted into a feature film, and his newest cookbook, All Hours, set to release this September. He was selected by Anna Wintour and the Met Gala Board to curate the menu for Superfine: Tailoring Black Style in 2025, has hosted the James Beard Awards, and appears regularly on Top Chef, Chopped, Billions, and Somebody Feed Phil. Fifth Floor Hospitality is the house he built for all of it.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Kwame Onwuachi is a James Beard Award-winning chef, restaurateur, and author. He was named a Food & Wine’s Best New Chef, Esquire’s Chef of the Year, a 30 Under 30 honoree by both Zagat and Forbes, and one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People. Raised in New York City, Nigeria, and Louisiana, he creates ground-breaking Afro-Caribbean cuisine inspired by his ancestors and upbringing. Onwuachi’s restaurant, Tatiana, was named the #1 Restaurant in New York by the New York Times two years in a row.

Joshua David Stein is a Brooklyn-based author and journalist. He is the co-author of Notes from a Young Black Chef, with Kwame Onwuachi; Il Buco with Donna Lennard; and The Nom Wah Cookbook with Wilson Tang and the author of Cooking for Your Kids.

ABOUT ALFRED A. KNOPF AND PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE

Alfred A. Knopf was founded in 1915 and has long been known as a publisher of distinguished hardcover fiction and nonfiction. It is an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC, whose parent company is Bertelsmann AG. Knopf authors include Nobel Prize winners Kazuo Ishiguro, Gabriel García Márquez, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, V. S. Naipaul and Orhan Pamuk; Pulitzer Prize winners Robert A. Caro, Cormac McCarthy, Richard Russo, T. J. Stiles, Anne Tyler, Jane Smiley and Lawrence Wright; and sports figures Andre Agassi, Arthur Ashe and Diana Nyad, among many others.

ABOUT KNOPF COOKS

In 1961, editor Judith Jones published Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking and went on to build Knopf’s legendary culinary program, featuring authors such as Lidia Bastianich, Edna Lewis, Madhur Jaffrey, Joan Nathan and Marcella Hazan. Among the bestselling and prize-winning authors published by Knopf Cooks today are Sohla El-Waylly, Deb Perelman, Padma Lakshmi, Nancy Silverton, Christina Tosi, Hetty Lui McKinnon, Ruby Tandoh and Anita Lo.

ABOUT RESY

Resy is a digital dining platform that powers restaurants around the world and provides reservation booking for passionate diners. With the powerful backing of American Express, Resy has created best-in-class software that elevates dining experiences and connects restaurants to a vast network of highly engaged diners. Resy is a destination for restaurant discovery, exclusive access, original content, and chef-driven culinary events. The amazing world of restaurants is just a few taps away in the Resy app and at Resy.com.

ABOUT LINCOLN CENTER THEATER

Lincoln Center Theater is one of the leading nonprofit theaters in the United States, producing an annual season of plays and musicals that have been seen by millions around the globe. Its mission is to bring exceptional theater to life. Building on a legacy of artistic excellence, LCT strives to expand what is possible: to make the magic of theater more palpable, empowering visionary artists and extending the invitation for the community to join in celebrating the power of live performance. Founded in 1985, LCT is home to Broadway’s Vivian Beaumont Theater and Off-Broadway’s Mitzi E. Newhouse and Claire Tow theaters, which welcome nearly 300,000 audience members to its home on the Lincoln Center campus each year. Over the last four decades, LCT and its productions have received 91 Tony Awards, 101 Drama Desk Awards, 84 Outer Critics Circle Awards, 36 Obies, 13 NY Drama Critics Circle Awards and one Pulitzer Prize, as well as two Pulitzer Prize finalists. Production highlights include Ragtime, the Rodgers and Hammerstein canon Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, Lerner & Loewe’s My Fair Lady, McNeal, Oslo, War Horse, The Coast of Utopia, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Other Desert Cities, August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Contact, Anything Goes, Sarafina!, Six Degrees of Separation, The Sisters Rosensweig and Shakespearean classics Twelfth Night and Henry IV, among many others. Honoring its legacy, its work and the premium experiences audiences have come to know as synonymous with the institution itself, LCT continues to broaden the welcome mat to make live theater more accessible for new audiences, staying true to the Lincoln Center founding mandate from John D. Rockefeller that the arts “are not just for the privileged few, but for the many.” Learn more at LCT. org and follow us @LCTheater on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and Threads.
 

ABOUT FRESHDIRECT

Fresh from the source, direct to customers’ doors. FreshDirect has offered the best in fresh grocery delivery since 2002. Headquartered in the Bronx, the company serves homes and offices across the New York tri-state area and Philadelphia metro region, with seasonal availability in the Hamptons and Jersey Shore. FreshDirect works directly with farmers, growers, and suppliers to source premium meat, seafood, produce, specialty products, and all favorite grocery items. Guided by a passion for customers, a love of food, and a commitment to integrity, FreshDirect delivers extraordinary variety, premium service, and a remarkable experience every time. For more information, visit www.freshdirect.com.

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