Thanks to Frenchy for tipping us on a new Tapas place that he/she says could fill the old Star Hill Building. Is it funded by a wealthy man from Richmond? Who is the chef? We are still curious about the details on this one, so please share. No word on the service expectations.
Secondly, a birdie let us know that the executive chef Bryan has left Ten and left C-Ville. Ten has recently hired a new executive chef.
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Remember when I gave you all that juicy gossip about the chef at Ten and you were all like, “No, you can’t say that, it will make the dude look bad and we’ll get in trouble,”…
Well now that he’s gone, are we allowed to talk about him?
@1: Yes
so WHERE did he go ? To NY for his new spot ?
3: Perhaps he went to Miyako to learn how to make sushi.
I hear he married Bo Derek, but she didn’t want to live in c-ville.
My Ten buddy said dude left in a huff after dispute with management. Sure they’ve hired a new chef? I’m not so certain.
Stanley: YES!
@4.. OOOOO SNAP. At least how to charge a reasonable price for it… $8 for one piece, NOT TWO of tuna sashimi..
bryan was a bit of a toolbag and had been interviewing at other sushi places since he pretty much started at ten. i’ve met who i think is the new chef and he seems like he has his poop together — good friend of the exec chef at boar’s head apparently — from key west.
from key west
I’m glad we could pull some of the talent before giving the state back to Spain. A felicitous development.
Also: newtocville. Have you been properly greeted yet? There’s sake in the kitchen, and some edamame. Dig in!
In the sushi department, Miyako pwnz.
It drinks ten’s milkshake. It drinks it up.
I heard he was opening a hip new joint called: Mr. Jones!
thank god that a$$wipe left… What I frickin jerk… One time a friend of mine got sick at the bottom of the steps and we were waiting for a cab and he came up and cussed us out and said he was calling the cops on us… I basically told him his food sucked and that he was a jerk… Soooo glad he left… Ps the best sushi in cville Is at ‘Seafood at west main’…. The emporer has fallen, bitch
Wow, your friend was sick at the front door of his restaurant. I would have called the cops on you too
Who is that other Ethan imposter?
One time I was riding my Huffy and smokin butts and my Mom yelled at me to come inside because she needed the butts and I said “F” you Mom, which made her wicked mad and then I got punched in the head by my brother. So I took off and was playing my guitar outside this little honky tonk which is wicked weird because I don’t have a guitar or know what a honky tonk is…but the audience seemed to appreciate it anyway. We danced like Mr. Bojangles, until my dog up and died. He up and died. Yep…he up and died. And I said please.
Dance. And he did which was weird, so I smoked some more butts and got back on my Huffy. You know the ones with the awesome card spokes not the ones with the purple tassels. So it was wicked cool. Until my Mom chased me down screaming for her butts.
/deep thoughts like meat on a Wednesday evening. It smells like…Teen Spirit?
from what I have heard… the Sous Chef from Jean Georges (NYC) will be running the show. just saying… not that I would know. XO
mmm…. sue she = )
oh yeah for those “not in the know” …. http://www.jean-georges.com/ would u expect anything less?
Nothing can compare to Blue Ribbon Sushi in Soho though, even if we get chefs from NYC… Cville just can’t get the proper ingredients or demand for actual high end sushi… Ten puts a light under their seaweed salad to make it look cool, but it’s so small and just the generic bright green variety… Not to mention, I think they use umeboshi paste, not actual umeboshi plum… Slackers…
think… thank… thought… get real. Ten does not imitate. trust!!!
sushi @ west main seafood!!!!
@ 19 Oh yeah? Well nothing can compare to the sushi thats in japan! The sushi in this town is so inferior that when I get a craving, Im forced to drive 300 miles to soho or fly 4000 to nihon just to satisfy my delicate palette.
/i’ll have an umbrage roll onigaishimas.
sounds good Belmont yo, rather spend money there or make it at home rather than waste it at “six”, oops, I meant “ten” or did I?
I make killer sushi of all varieties, AND i refuse to illuminate my nori.
Illuminated nori makes the baby jeebus cry.
/illuminated nori.
I’ll be over this weekend, when’s dinner? Homeade is the best… Why don’t we open a new spot
Downtown called 11 and take over the world!!!! At least cville
Did Jean-Georges Vongerichten start making sushi in his restaurants? or it TEN dropping sushi and picking up modern fusion cuisine? I’m confused
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
Gesundheit!
Ten has always been about Yakitori. Seaweed Salad is for white people.
and Ten’s sushi sucks so bad that the sushi chef was hand picked by the International Sushi Guild to rep the good ole United States at the “sushi olympics” this fall in London…
/crabcakes anyone?
@30 ten’s sushi sucks so bad it made me not be allergic to seafood anymore after 28 5/6 years of being allergic to seafood.
@31 - I read your post 8 and 24/32 hours after you wrote it and still think ten’s sushi blows and don’t care whether you managed to choke it down or not.
@32.. exactly what I as thinking.
/confused.
i’m confused too.
what are the best and worst things to eat at TEN?
I’d love to be able to eat at ten. I’m just still broke from the first time I went.
@35 - Their bourbon is right up their with the best. If you go, definitely eat the bourbon.
@35 best things… black cod, ishayake steak, ton toro, minzuna salad, the “wings”, veggie tempura, calamari, kara uzu, lamb chops, temari omakase, hama kama, clear soup, walu… (not proofing at this point btw)
worst things? the amateur stuff… not that they are bad but just amateur… seaweed? is that really why you are going to Ten? its great but… soooo many other delicious things to explore.
The black cod *is* really amazing.