People Are Threatening Bay Area Caviar Company Tsar Nicoulai Even Though It Has No Ties to Russia | Eater SF

"I was alarmed to read that the Bay Area caviar producer Tsar Nicoulai has been receiving handwritten threatening letters in Russian and English at its Concord headquarters telling the company to “Go back to Russia! Or suffer severe consequences!” The company, however, was founded in the 1980s in San Francisco by a Swedish family, raises sturgeon at a farm outside Sacramento, supplies caviar to many of California’s top restaurants, and opened a café earlier this year inside the historic Ferry Building; as president Ali Bolourchi said, “There’s nothing Russian about Tsar Nicoulai.”" - Lauren Saria