Frida Blomdahl Hay

Frida Blomdahl Hay is the General Manager and sommelier at Sons & Daughters in San Francisco, where the restaurant’s team credits her with front-of-house leadership and wine pairing expertise. MICHELIN named her the winner of the 2026 California Service Award, and the guide’s profile says she grew up in Funäsdalen, northern Sweden, before moving away at 15 to study interior design. The Sons & Daughters team bio says she later studied in Falkenberg, worked in Stockholm in 2012 at Esperanto, Leijontornet, Flickan, and Ichi, completed sommelier studies in 2015, and spent 14 months in Germany at Weingut Wechsler before joining Sons & Daughters.