Sunshine City Tavern<\/a> on Fourth Street N. in St. Petersburg. They shuttered Sunshine City Tavern in August as day-to-day operations became unmanageable, he told the St. Pete Catalyst in August.<\/p>\nDorsey ran many kitchens in Tampa over the years: Bill Edwards\u2019 Club on Treasure Island, Boca Kitchen Bar and Market, Castile in St. Petersburg\u2019s Hotel Zamora, Ciro\u2019s Speakeasy & Supper Club, Copperfish Seafood Grill & Oyster Bar, The Mill and Sonata.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was always super kind to me and really warm and cool, took care of me whenever I went to his restaurants,\u201d said Rob Reinsmith, of St. Pete\u2019s Wild Child and Slim Charmer. \u201cHe shaped a lot of younger cooks in this area.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dorsey grew up in Clearwater and Tampa. As a cook, he was mentored by longtime Mise en Place chef Marty Blitz.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was a guy that could lead a kitchen, but he would wash the dishes,\u201d said longtime friend and collaborator Brooke Palmer Kuhl. \u201cSalt of the earth, would just give you the last dollar he had in his pocket.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dorsey is survived by his two children, Jackson and Samantha.<\/p>\n
Times food and dining critic Helen Freund contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran Tampa Bay chef Ted Dorsey died today. He was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer in April.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[25315,25313,199,25312,135,1526,137,136,25314],"class_list":["post-36771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-copperfish-seafood-grill-oyster-bar","tag-st-pete-catalyst","tag-st-petersburg","tag-sunshine-city-tavern","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-ted-dorsey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}