This guy left the Mansion's kitchen. Will it fail as a result?On Friday, the Mansion's PR rep made the rounds by phone to confirm that rumors rebuffed earlier in the week were true--chef John Tesar was out the door to "pursue other opportunities."Stephanie Hutson, the suddenly harried spokesperson, reported all this in very deliberate, almost somber tones. It was as if she carried the burden of heavy news...and the media response so far justifies her obvious concern: flying rumors, the titillati
Before he opened Sevy's Grill back in 1997, Severson had already piled up 23 years of food service experience...probably not counting his time at McDonald's as a teenager.The Michigan native studied at the famous Culinary Institute of America and worked several kitchens before earning a local following as chef at Dakota's. Aside from Sevy's--now a kind of institution--he's known as a founder of the Farmer's Market cooking class series.Severson, however, gives a lot of credit for all this success
