The group's own press representation sets out the people behind the block. SHŌTŌ was created by the London-based restaurateur Arjun Waney, whose rooms elsewhere include the kind of guest list the agency is happy to print: the Obamas, Serena Williams, Alexander Ovechkin.
ĀKĒDO is described as a chef-driven, fast-casual Japanese street food restaurant, run by Arman Naqi, a DC native and George Washington University graduate who came up under Waney.
The Arcade, the late room behind ĀKĒDO, was designed by the Tokyo-based designer Noriyoshi Muramatsu, which is why the back room reads more Shinjuku than downtown DC.
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