St. Petersburg chef and restaurant owner Ted Dorsey, 43, died Thursday. He had been diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer in April.
In early August, Dorsey – known around town as Chef Ted – closed the Sunshine City Tavern, his “homage to 1990s St. Petersburg,” after his ongoing medical treatments left him too weak to work.
“This was my dream, my vision,” he told the Catalyst at the time, “and it’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do, one of the hardest choice I’ve ever had to make, to shut it down. Because my legacy was to leave this to my children. That clearly isn’t going to happen now.”…