Name:  Paul A. Ent   

Title:  Executive Chef

Time in current position: 3 months. 

Previous job:  Chef at Midtown Cafe.

Family:  Wife – Mirna, 4 Daughters – Claudia 17, Brandy 14, Jeniferr 13, Jasmine 8

Hobbies: Writing cookbooks, fishing, barbequing.

Community Service: I like to involve myself in different charities where I can showcase my cooking skills.

Best decision:  Marrying my wife.

Best thing about job:  I get to cook pretty much anything I want.

Worst thing about job: Haven’t found any yet!!!

Favorite Thing in Nashville: The Music.

What would people be surprised to learn about you? Despite my tough exterior, I’m a pretty compassionate and caring individual.

Word that best describes you: Perfectionist.

Goal yet to be achieved:  James Beard Award Winner.

Professional pet peeve:  Unorganized people with a lazy attitude, and people who lie to me, I can’t stand a liar.

Who is your mentor and why?  Chef Eddie Fields at the Historic Mount Vernon Inn. Because the guy was pushing about 70 years old and on his worst day he could out work the youngest person in the restaurant. Not to mention he was a pretty accomplished Chef.

Favorite Movie:  The Cowboys, John Wayne with a bunch of wild kids wanting to play cowboy, what a movie for a kid from the 70’s, I learned a lot of lessons watching that movie.

Favorite Book:  It would actually be a series, Louis L’Amour “The Sacketts”, what can I say... it’s a western thing.