Cleveland Magazine – Serenite Restaurant’s Todd Whitman is on a Mission: Best Restaurants 2023
Cleveland Magazine Article The graduate of Edwins Leadership & Restaurant Institute continues its mission in Medina. By Cassie Tomaselli
Sérénité Restaurant in Medina paves a path for those in recovery
(Written By : Micaela Marshall/Spectrum News 1) MEDINA, Ohio — Todd Whitman has always had a passion for food. “Didn’t get serious until I got clean and sober Aug. 17, 2015,” he said. Today, he’s the executive chef at Sérénité Restaurant and Culinary Institute in Medina. It’s more than an upscale French restaurant. What You…
Beating the Odds Part 1: Addiction Recovery to Executive Chef
Executive Chef Todd Whitman has beat great odds to become a premier chef, teacher and loving father and husband. With the help and support of key people on his journey Todd has overcome major obstacles including addiction and incarceration. In addition to making creative and delicious dishes Todd also mentors and teaches culinary skills to…
Beating the Odds Part 2: Addiction Recovery to Executive Chef
Executive Chef Todd Whitman talks about his passion for food and how it helped inspire him to change his life to be there for his family and to help others struggling with life challenges. Chef Todd and the team at Sérénité Restaurant & Culinary Institute are working hard to change lives and create opportunity! Watch…
Fox8 NEW DAY CLEVELAND – French Cuisine
A Fox8 NEW DAY CLEVELAND broadcast about French Cuisine featuring Serenite Chef Todd Whitman.
Culinary Arts – A Pathway to Prosperity
Todd Whitman (Executive Chef Serenite Restaurant) shares his experience with an “Alternate Path To Prosperity”. This video is sponsored by the “Leadership Medina County” organization.
Channel Video – Changing Lives One Bite At A Time
MEDINA, Ohio — They say the way to someone’s heart is through their stomach, and for Todd Whitman, the executive chef at Serenite Restaurant in Medina, that couldn’t hold more true. “People come here for the mission once and then the food you gotta execute on the food correctly and we do, so they come…
Chef Todd Whitman’s Recovery Journey
Executive Chef Todd Whitman shares his recovery and treatment journey with Community Assessment Treatment Services. Todd rebuilt his life, career, friendships and family with assistance from our counselors at CATS. He is now an inspiration to many while helping many of the men and women who come through the kitchen at The Sérénité Restaurant &…
Medina Weekly News – Finding Sérénité
It’s been a long journey for Todd Whitman. It began as the youngest of 10 children growing up with alcoholic parents in Cleveland. At the age of 12, he spent a year in a juvenile detention center for drinking alcohol and getting in to fights. That was the start of more than five combined years…
Channel 5 News Broadcast
A culinary program in Medina has found the recipe for success and redemption for its workers in recovery. Watch The Video MEDINA, Ohio — When you walk into Serenite Restaurant in Medina, you’ll be greeted with a smile and served upscale French cuisine. But what you may not know, those smiling, serving and cooking, are…