Enter Ent
Chef Paul Ent has accepted the position of executive chef at the Pineapple Room at Cheekwood. He begins work in the wooded sanctuary of arts and gardens this week and will be fully on board by June 4.
Ent is a former Marine and self-taught chef whose tours of culinary duty include Mount Vernon Inn in Virginia; Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C.; Sunset Grill and Midtown Cafe in Nashville; Pearl’s Café in Sewanee; B. McNeel’s in Murfreesboro, The Riverfront Plantation Inn in Dover, Tenn., and most recently Bridges Café. He fills the position left vacant last fall when chef Darrell Manhold left the Pineapple Room after a brief stint and headed to Wildwood Oak-Fired Kitchen.
Located inside the domain of Cheekwood, The Pineapple Room serves lunch 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. There is a $10 entrance fee for non-members.
Comments
well, that's one shoe filled there. now what are they going to do without anne?
Posted 05/28/2008 at 01:16:11 PM"Chef" Ent brags about the fact that he has had over 48 jobs in his life. I know as I worked with him at Midtown. What he lacks in skill he makes up for with personality which he has used to fool his employers and the press in his volatile work history. His enthusiasm and knowlege are comendable but he has the palatte of a bullfrog, which is to say he has no tastebuds.
Posted 07/15/2008 at 11:36:39 PMI emplore the critics to try the food and ignore the history that "Chef" Paul has created for himself. Paul has no history for he has never been at a place long enough to develop one. Ent is always in with banter and bravado and out before he has a chance to provide quality food for any length of time. The man is a career rookie.
Chef Thomas Richard Chism Jr.
"Chef" Ent brags about the fact that he has had over 48 jobs in his life. I know as I worked with him at Midtown. What he lacks in skill he makes up for with personality which he has used to fool his employers and the press in his volatile work history. His enthusiasm and knowlege are comendable but he has the palatte of a bullfrog, which is to say he has no tastebuds.
Posted 07/15/2008 at 11:37:01 PMI emplore the critics to try the food and ignore the history that "Chef" Paul has created for himself. Paul has no history for he has never been at a place long enough to develop one. Ent is always in with banter and bravado and out before he has a chance to provide quality food for any length of time. The man is a career rookie.
Chef Thomas Richard Chism Jr.
Hey Tom, if your back in Nashville and are looking for work, I'll always have a dishwasher's position available for you. I will even provide the plastic apron.
Posted 09/03/2008 at 08:53:17 PMLove Ya Paul