Robb Report

Chef Gavin Kaysen

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Running Michelin-starred Café Boulud in New York for six years and winning the James Beard Award for Rising Star Chef in 2008, Gavin Kaysen looked poised for greatness in Gotham.

He had other plans.

Last decade he returned home to Minneapolis to build a restaurant empire there.