Aya Brackett

Dec 26, 2023 | buffalonews.com | Aya Brackett

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save FILE — Winter hwachae with satsuma mandarins at Benu Restaurant in San Francisco, on Feb. 16, 2023. Floral, delicate dishes like the winter hwachae with satsuma mandarins from Benu Restaurant signal new metrics that include kindness and cooperation.

Dec 13, 2023 | departures.com | Maggie Morris |Aya Brackett

Restaurants Chez Noir serves up optimistic, inventive fare that actualizes the California coast’s plentiful promise. FOLLOWING THE GREAT San Francisco earthquake of 1906, displaced artists and literati, including Langston Hughes, Alice McGowan, Jack London, and Sinclair Lewis, sought refuge in the calm of Carmel-by-the-Sea’s artist community, about 120 miles down the California Coast.

Oct 4, 2023 | buffalonews.com | Aya Brackett

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save Diners at Rintaro, a Japanese restaurant in San Francisco. Described by chef-owner, Sylvan Mishima Brackett as “a Japanese izakaya by way of California,” Rintaro is on the New York Times list of the best restaurants in San Francisco for 2023. (Aya Brackett via The New York Times) — NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY SAN FRANCISCO RESTAURANTS of OCT.