Chef Darian Bryan has long been known for his delicious food with flair—and a personal style and swagger to match—honed over the course of a career that’s taken him from the kitchen to work as a private chef and back.
Yet perhaps his greatest culinary labor of love was the opening of his restaurant celebrating authentic Jamaican cuisine: Bratts Hill in Buffalo, New York.
Named for the community in Clarendon, Jamaica, that Chef Darian called home, Bratts Hill looks to the chef’s heritage as a key ingredient. It was there, in his mother’s cook shop that served Jamaican cuisine in a casual setting, that he saw the power of food to bring people together. He credits his passion and inspiration for all things food to his mother.
Today, his restaurant has come to life as a destination that serves two different flavors of dining: a fast casual-lunch menu that includes jerk chicken, oxtail and Chef Darian’s signature Rasta Pasta, and an upscale Jamaican fusion lineup featuring indulgent options like steak, jerk lobster and coconut curry halibut.
His hope for his Bratts Hill restaurant? That everyone who comes to the table feels the warmth and connection that people felt in back in the cookshop of his ultimate inspiration: his mom.
And given the quality of his food and his attention to the customer experience, we have a feeling they will.
