Steven Brown to Ivy? "No Comment"

The rumor is floating around restaurant kitchens – or at least one restaurant kitchen – that the talented Steven Brown is leaving Harry’s Food and Cocktails to become executive chef for the new upscale restaurant at the Ivy Hotel, a Starwood Hotels luxury property scheduled to open later this year at 1115 2nd Ave. S. in downtown Minneapolis. Harry’s opened in early July in the former Nochee’s site at 500 S. Washington. Contacted for a response, Brown offered a succinct “no comment,” but he did volunteer that the long-awaited poutine will be on Harry’s menu by Wednesday. “It features amongst other things, pickles and green peppercorns and it is, imho of course, better than sex…even for those under 30!”