Twin Cities restaurateur David Burley dies in motorcycle accident

After moving unneurotic arsenic servers astatine the Nicollet Island Inn during the 1990s, David Burley and Stephanie Shimp opened the Highland Grill connected Cleveland Avenue, followed by a bid of further restaurants nether the title, Blue Plate Restaurant Company, including the Groveland Tap and Longfellow Grill.

On Sunday afternoon, Burley died from a motorcycle clang connected Interstate 94 successful Wisconsin’s St. Croix County, according to a institution connection shared connected societal media. All Blue Plate Restaurants volition beryllium closed connected Monday successful remembrance.

Stephanie Shimp, co-owner of the Blue Plate Restaurant Company and Burley’s ex-wife, released a written connection Sunday evening.

“My bosom is perfectly breached by the devastating quality of David’s passing,” Shimp wrote. “Losing him truthful abruptly is overwhelming – a achy daze that has near maine and our full Blue Plate household grieving a nonaccomplishment excessively heavy for words. David’s passionateness and kindness were the instauration of everything we built together. We volition profoundly miss his spirit, vigor and irreplaceable presence.”

As co-founders of the Blue Plate Restaurant Company, the mates launched the Edina Grill, 3 Squares, The Lowry, The Blue Barn astatine the Minnesota State Fair and The Freehouse.

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