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Founder of Grand Award–Winning Bern's Steak House Dies

By Dana Nigro

Bernard "Bern" Laxer, founder of Bern's Steak House, which has held a Wine Spectator Grand Award for its wine list since 1981, died on Aug. 31 at his home in Tampa, Fla. He was 78. Opened in 1956, Bern.....

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