Emma's Torch Cafe

"Brooklyn’s refugee-centered culinary school, Emma’s Torch, will host a doughnut pop-up by Chef Jeremy Salamon." - Tanay Warerkar

"Emma’s Torch — the Carroll Gardens restaurant that doubles up as a training program for refugees — has reopened for the first time since the pandemic-related shutdown in March, and co-founder Kerry Brodie is keen to get back to the restaurant’s central mission: providing meaningful employment and culinary training for refugees." - Megan McGibney

"Carroll Gardens newcomer Emma’s Torch — which doubles as a training program for refugees — is growing with a new outpost at the Brooklyn Public Library. The nonprofit restaurant, which serves a seasonally changing menu, will be the concessions at the Central Library at 10 Grand Army Plaza starting February 2019, also serving a seasonally changing menu." - Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

"It’s a Tuesday night in August and Emma’s Torch is buzzing. Middle Eastern pop music jangles softly through the speakers. Couples dressed for the heat sip glasses of rosé and swirl torn bits of warm Toufayan pita through creamy hummus made from black-eyed peas. The last of the day’s light glows tangerine behind a large sheet glass window etched with big block letters: 'EMPOWERING REFUGEES THROUGH CULINARY EDUCATION.' That’s what this tiny Brooklyn eatery does, and what we, by dining here, are helping to do too." - ByHilary Cadigan

"Over in Carroll Gardens, Hannah Goldfield at the New Yorker highlights Emma’s Torch, a restaurant that also serves as a culinary training school for refugees." - Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya