
Beer garden, sausage house coming to Germantown
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 an

Exclusive: New Nashville restaurant partnership plans top-secret project
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 s

The Food Biz: Ray, Brumm to partner
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