Kevin Bruyette

Kevin Bruyette grew up in Cottage Grove, Minnesota, and lived there until 1993, when he joined the Navy. During his 21 years of service, he conducted a broad range of tasks which centered first around intelligence gathering and analysis, and later as a Surface Warfare Officer, the ‘Swiss Army Knives’ of the Navy. He retired from the Navy as a Lieutenant Commander in September of 2014 and returned to Minnesota.

During his time in service, he graduated cum laude with a BA in Sociology (minor in Linguistics) from the University of Texas. Later, while stationed in England, he graduated top of his class from the University of Portsmouth with a Master’s in Business Management.

He was fortunate to have visited 44 countries during his service time, many of them with his wife of 20 years. Throughout their travels, they developed a deep passion for food, wine, drinks and travel itself.

After retirement, he finally found himself at a point where he could finally harness two decades of operational, management and organizational excellence with his passion, in a city whose food and drink scene had exploded in the time that he had been away.