Taste Modern Russian Cuisine from James Beard Awards 2023 Semi-finalist for Best New Restaurant

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Monday, February 27, 2023 11:28 PM

Birch & Rye offers Russian cuisine through the lens of contemporary California

SAN FRANCISCO — Interested in Russian cuisine but don’t know where to start? Birch & Rye in San Francisco’s Noah Valley, serving contemporary Russian cuisine with a California twist.

“Sometimes you go to a restaurant, maybe you go to a Michelin-starred restaurant… the food tastes the same,” said Steven Simmons, chef at Birch. and rye. “We’re pretty much trying to reach all the senses here, so a little bit of sweetness, a little bit of sourness.”

A unique sensory experience comes through in carefully curated tasting menus, including a 5-course chef’s menu and a unique vegan 5-course menu. In addition, the restaurant offers the best responsibly sourced malo-salted caviar.

Birch & Rye is also a 2023 James Beard Awards semi-finalist for Best New Restaurant.

“In order to have this support from James Beard and understanding of what we are doing and how important it is in this dialogue, instead of erasing everything Russian, they said:“ No, let’s really see what this restaurant is doing, ”said Anya . El-Wattar, chef and owner of the Birch restaurant and rye.

“It was so important to me to create a culture that is the most holistic I could imagine, a culture of safety, a culture of kindness,” added El-Wattar. “That’s all the imagination I can bring to it, and I’m going to make it a prototype of what’s possible to give hope and also pave the way for the survival of Russian food culture.”

The goal of the restaurant is to share food and stories based on a world that transcends boundaries. The restaurant continues to support the residents of Ukraine. In 2022, the restaurant raised $108,000 for World Central Kitchen and their assistance in and around Ukraine.

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