The wait is over: Restaurant veteran Austin Ray and chef Jason Brumm have officially revealed their plans for a new Germantown venture. The heavy-hitting duo plan to open Von Elrod’s Beer Garden & Sausage House in a high-profile location at 1004 Fourth Ave. N., just steps away from First Tennessee Park, the home of the Nashville Sounds. It’s already easy to imagine a steady stream of Nashville Sounds fans grabbing a beer and a bite on Von Elrod’s large outdoor patio before and after games. “This is about beer and sausage in a fun beer garden setting. You won’t find a fancy cocktail program here. It’s a classic beer hall idea brought into today’s Nashville,” said Ray, founder of A.Ray Hospita

Veteran local chef Jason Brumm is joining A.Ray Hospitality as partner and chef for an undisclosed new concept, president and founder Austin Ray announced Wednesday. Ray, the restaurateur known for M.L.Rose, said in a release details for the concept will be announced "in the coming months." Most recently, Brumm was culinary operations director for Strategic Hospitality. In 2005, he opened the since-closed Radius 10 in The Gulch. Ray said the future project “will fill an unmet need in a neighborhood we’re very excited about.” “Jason’s skillset reaches every area necessary to build an exceptional brand,” Ray said in the release. “Not only does he have the talent as a chef and menu developer, b

Restaurateur Austin Ray (currently of M.L.Rose, The Sutler, Melrose Billiard Parlor) and chef Jason Brumm (formerly of Watercolors, 30A, Radius 10, Strategic Hospitality) are up to something huge. Not "small hands" huge, but really huge. It's a back-and-forth story with as many bounces as a Ping-Pong match. What may at first glance seem to be a simple business pairing is actually a food-borne relationship that goes back more than ten years to the nascent days of what we now simply call The Gulch. That's when Ray operated Bar Twenty3 and City Hall with Ben Goldberg and Brumm was serving up excellent and inventive cuisine at Radius 10, a Gulch pioneer where Kayne Prime now resides. After closi