Rappers love to rhyme about their days eating stove top ramen, the staple of check-to-check-budgeted diets which sustains lower income families and college students across the nation, but one rapper is taking his interest in the noodles a step further. Pusha T announced today that he is teaming up with club owners Wayne Johnson and Tony Perry to open a premium ramen bar in Washington DC this month. The bar is called Kitsuen, which means “smoke” in Japanese, and is dedicated to “elevated” ramen and cocktails.
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The restaurant is set to open New Year’s Eve in DC’s H Street corridor. With a kitchen led by chef Munehiro Mori of Tokyo, who has 25 years of experience in traditional ramen, it looks like Pusha’s new restaurant is going to branch a bit further beyond the usual “whatever’s in the fridge” style of topping the dish. The bar will be small, but also has a heated patio for additional outdoor seating. NBA players Jerami and Jerian Grant, who played in high school in Hyattsville, Maryland and play for the Denver Nuggets and the G-League’s Capital City Go-Go, respectively, are also investors along with Las Vegas entrepreneur Kyle Eubanks.
Kitsuen isn’t Pusha’s only baby coming out soon; last week, he announced that he and his wife Virginia are expecting their first child with a new freestyle.
