After just seven months in business, Miami chef Brad Kilgore’s showy Italian-Japanese fusion restaurant Ama has closed at the Transamerica complex, along with the more casual daytime spot Cafe Sebastian.
The departure of developer Michael Shvo from the Transamerica Pyramid means that the restaurant tenant he brought in for the ground floor spaces of 545 Sansome — rebranded as Three Transamerica Plaza — has to go as well. Chef Brad Kilgore’s two restaurants, the casual Cafe Sebastian that’s been open since December 2024 and the much-hyped Ama that opened in September 2025, are both now closed, as the Chronicle reports.
Restaurant kitchen equipment was seen being wheeled out of the spaces “under the watch of a security guard” on Tuesday morning, per the Chronicle. And so that’s a quick exit for Kilgore’s spots, which garnered quite a bit of press in part thanks to Shvo’s marketing prowess…