Filed under: A Tornado, a Pandemic, a House Fire, and a Bomb: One Chef’s Chaotic First Year in Nashville Gray & Dudley executive chef Matt Bell has endured Nashville at its roughest since arriving in February, but he remains hopeful for 2021 Matt Bell, Executive Chef, Gray & Dudley Share this story Before moving to Nashville in February 2020 to take the helm at the 21c Hotel’s ground floor restaurant Gray & Dudley, Matt Bell was chef-owner of South on Main in Little Rock, Arkansas, since it opened in 2013. A native of Missoula, Montana, Bell attended culinary school at the Texas...