The Slider House Throws Viewing Party for Hometown Hero Tonight

By Chris Chamberlain | Nashville SCENE

With all the focus on Nashvillians on all those competitive cooking shows on television, it’s surprising that we haven’t previously had a local representative on Hell’s Kitchen, Gordon Ramsey’s brutal boot camp to ostensibly select a head chef for one of his many restaurants. But as Dana Franklin reported last month, that changed this season with the appearance of Sterling Wright as a contestant.

Wright serves as a grill cook at The Slider House in Midtown, and so far has acquitted himself as well as can be expected on the contentious show. In last week’s episode however, the Blue Team (made up of a bunch of aggro male chefs) turned on Wright and nominated him to be eliminated. This was despite the fact that most of the rest of the team lost their everloving minds during dinner service, and several of them were ejected from the kitchen by Chef Ramsey.

Fortunately, Ramsey saw through the Blue Team’s cowardice and kept Wright in the game for at least one more episode. In fact, after a cliffhanger of an ending where Ramsey says he’s not through yet, it appears as if Wright will be making a switch to the Red Team of female chefs. At least that’s what it looks like according to  READ FULL ARTICLE