Fleeing war, Ukrainian family starts European bakery on the Peninsula
https://www.siliconvalley.com/2025/01/07/fleeing-war-ukrainian-family-starts-european-bakery-on-the-peninsula/
Andreii and Alyona Kotsiubynskyi are no strangers to the hospitality business — albeit half a world away from where they live now. Andreii owned a brewery and distillery while Alyona ran restaurants, coffee and patisserie shops back in their hometown of Lviv, a city in western Ukraine near the Poland border.
But when they and their young daughter found themselves experiencing strike alarms and power outages due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, they decided to leave their home country.