Comments on: Dining with Dumble http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/01/21/dining-with-dumble/ Dada, bring my beer in the living room Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:53:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: mamster http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/01/21/dining-with-dumble/#comment-242 mamster Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:17:45 +0000 http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/01/21/dining-with-dumble/#comment-242 <p>Roy, at your suggestion, I headed over to Citysearch. I did not find a review by chefturnedbum.</p> <p>I did, however, find a review posted by you (without identifying yourself as the owner). It said:</p> <p><em>I just love what the new owners have done to the place! Its so clean! The food is the best ever, I had the Salisbury Steak, my wife the Schnitzel. Truely awesome!</em></p> <p>I'm closing comments on this post now. If anyone has anything to add, especially about the food at Fork, please email me at rootsandgrubs at gmail.com.</p> Roy, at your suggestion, I headed over to Citysearch. I did not find a review by chefturnedbum.

I did, however, find a review posted by you (without identifying yourself as the owner). It said:

I just love what the new owners have done to the place! Its so clean! The food is the best ever, I had the Salisbury Steak, my wife the Schnitzel. Truely awesome!

I’m closing comments on this post now. If anyone has anything to add, especially about the food at Fork, please email me at rootsandgrubs at gmail.com.

]]> By: Roy http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/01/21/dining-with-dumble/#comment-241 Roy Sat, 25 Feb 2006 15:40:48 +0000 http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/01/21/dining-with-dumble/#comment-241 <p>Matt, I'm the new owner of the BOB. Let me chime in here if I might.<br /> As you can see, the BOB does have a following weather you liked it or not. You have not been back to my restaurant in over a year and really have no basis for your comments. Was I taken a back by your unfair review? Yes I was. Why? Because your review was written to hurt, not to review. I'm still friends with the other previous owner who is also miffed with you and she also wonders why you have an agenda with us.<br /> A restaurant review should be written to inform the people what it was like. Writing something a year later that bashes us clearly shows your original review was nothing more than something meant to hurt us. Your Chef friend also tried to do the same. Check out "chefturnedbum" s review on citysearch that also did the same. Your bud has never been back since selling and yet you two cohorts seem to think this behavior is ethnical. Like Bill said, shame on you. Shame on both of you. If you have a problem with me please call me, I’m at the restaurant all the time. If not, please keep your unprofessional comments to yourself. Best Regards Roy Blue Onion Bistro</p> Matt, I’m the new owner of the BOB. Let me chime in here if I might.
As you can see, the BOB does have a following weather you liked it or not. You have not been back to my restaurant in over a year and really have no basis for your comments. Was I taken a back by your unfair review? Yes I was. Why? Because your review was written to hurt, not to review. I’m still friends with the other previous owner who is also miffed with you and she also wonders why you have an agenda with us.
A restaurant review should be written to inform the people what it was like. Writing something a year later that bashes us clearly shows your original review was nothing more than something meant to hurt us. Your Chef friend also tried to do the same. Check out “chefturnedbum” s review on citysearch that also did the same. Your bud has never been back since selling and yet you two cohorts seem to think this behavior is ethnical. Like Bill said, shame on you. Shame on both of you. If you have a problem with me please call me, I’m at the restaurant all the time. If not, please keep your unprofessional comments to yourself. Best Regards Roy Blue Onion Bistro

]]> By: mamster http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/01/21/dining-with-dumble/#comment-238 mamster Fri, 24 Feb 2006 20:32:53 +0000 http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/01/21/dining-with-dumble/#comment-238 <p>For anyone just tuning in, the story here is that I gave a negative review to a restaurant that Scott Simpson <em>used to</em> work at. Unsurprisingly, the owners of the restaurant weren't happy with the negative review, and so now they (or perhaps their friends) are here to post baseless allegations on my blog. (For example, I've never been to a ballgame with Scott Simpson.)</p> <p>Folks, do you understand what a conflict of interest is? Writing a review of a restaurant where a person you know used to work is not a conflict of interest. Neither is it a conflict of interest to say on your blog, "I ate at restaurant X. The chef is a friend of ours. We liked the food." If anyone seriously wants to argue that there's something unethical about that, I'm all ears.</p> <p>Let's get this back on topic. Bill and Debra, what did you eat at Fork? Any dishes you particularly liked? I'm planning to go back and would like to know what you recommend.</p> For anyone just tuning in, the story here is that I gave a negative review to a restaurant that Scott Simpson used to work at. Unsurprisingly, the owners of the restaurant weren’t happy with the negative review, and so now they (or perhaps their friends) are here to post baseless allegations on my blog. (For example, I’ve never been to a ballgame with Scott Simpson.)

Folks, do you understand what a conflict of interest is? Writing a review of a restaurant where a person you know used to work is not a conflict of interest. Neither is it a conflict of interest to say on your blog, “I ate at restaurant X. The chef is a friend of ours. We liked the food.” If anyone seriously wants to argue that there’s something unethical about that, I’m all ears.

Let’s get this back on topic. Bill and Debra, what did you eat at Fork? Any dishes you particularly liked? I’m planning to go back and would like to know what you recommend.

]]> By: Debra http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/01/21/dining-with-dumble/#comment-237 Debra Fri, 24 Feb 2006 20:02:04 +0000 http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/01/21/dining-with-dumble/#comment-237 <p>A friend and I recently dined at the Fork. Although both of us are really not into the food served there we did have a great time. Parking was a nightmare! I agree with the above. Isn’t that a conflict of interest?</p> A friend and I recently dined at the Fork. Although both of us are really not into the food served there we did have a great time. Parking was a nightmare! I agree with the above. Isn’t that a conflict of interest?

]]> By: Bill http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/01/21/dining-with-dumble/#comment-235 Bill Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:25:33 +0000 http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/01/21/dining-with-dumble/#comment-235 <p>You consider yourself an honest food critic when this chef is clearly someone close to you? I consider what you write as free advertising at the expense of others, nothing more.</p> <p>An infomercial comes to mind, shame on you!</p> You consider yourself an honest food critic when this chef is clearly someone close to you? I consider what you write as free advertising at the expense of others, nothing more.

An infomercial comes to mind, shame on you!

]]> By: mamster http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/01/21/dining-with-dumble/#comment-233 mamster Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:22:59 +0000 http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/01/21/dining-with-dumble/#comment-233 <p>"The chef is Scott Simpson, an old friend of ours."</p> <p>Bill, I think maybe those beans were already spilled.</p> “The chef is Scott Simpson, an old friend of ours.”

Bill, I think maybe those beans were already spilled.

]]> By: Bill http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/01/21/dining-with-dumble/#comment-229 Bill Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:55:26 +0000 http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/01/21/dining-with-dumble/#comment-229 <p>After reading the above restaurant critics ramblings I decided someone needs to spill the beans so to speak! Scott is good friends with this critic! They have been known to dine out and even go to ball games together. I have visited both the blue onion bistro and fork. When Scott owned the blue onion bistro and after. My circle of friends have been back to the onion many many times and have seen a huge improvement from the old restaurant Scott used to run. Its more traditional American than Scotts version and quite frankly we find the food outstanding and much more what we choose to eat. It makes me wonder, could their friendship have anything to do with the onions "terrible" food or is he really in a position to be a critic to pay attention to? The fork is good but if its American food you’re looking for without beet foam or tea sauce, its not the place to choose. Its like comparing Chineese, to Mexican.</p> After reading the above restaurant critics ramblings I decided someone needs to spill the beans so to speak! Scott is good friends with this critic! They have been known to dine out and even go to ball games together. I have visited both the blue onion bistro and fork. When Scott owned the blue onion bistro and after. My circle of friends have been back to the onion many many times and have seen a huge improvement from the old restaurant Scott used to run. Its more traditional American than Scotts version and quite frankly we find the food outstanding and much more what we choose to eat. It makes me wonder, could their friendship have anything to do with the onions “terrible” food or is he really in a position to be a critic to pay attention to? The fork is good but if its American food you’re looking for without beet foam or tea sauce, its not the place to choose. Its like comparing Chineese, to Mexican.

]]> By: Laurel Fan http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/01/21/dining-with-dumble/#comment-116 Laurel Fan Sun, 22 Jan 2006 05:46:42 +0000 http://www.rootsandgrubs.com/2006/01/21/dining-with-dumble/#comment-116 <p>Sounds like my kind of restaurant. Tried to go there yesterday, but when I called they were compeltely booked for the night. I'll have to try again on a weeknight...</p> Sounds like my kind of restaurant. Tried to go there yesterday, but when I called they were compeltely booked for the night. I’ll have to try again on a weeknight…

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