Michelin chef Oliver Dunne didn't take too kindly to a review in the Irish Independent[1] by well known food[2] critic Lucinda O'Sullivan.
After she posted a critical review of his Dublin restaurant Cleaver East that included gripes about the tasting menu and a card transaction at the end, Dunne posted a photoshopped picture of himself and a colleague holding up her 'severed' head on Twitter.
The original image featured Dunne holding a cleaver and a colleague holding a pig's head. The pig's head was replaced with O'Sullivan's, reported The Daily Mail.[3]
The image was hastily removed from Twitter after users said it was 'tasteless' and Dunne has told the Irish Independent that he is sorry for posting the image.
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What was it that caused Dunne so much offence? In the article, O'Sullivan says: "Dunne and Carville are talented chefs but Paul O’Connor, my dining companion,[7] and I felt perhaps the concept hadn’t been fully thought through."
She goes on praise the majority of dishes but after there was a problem with the restaurant's card machine, she said: "Rattled, nay cleavered, is how I felt on departure."
The original promotional image
In a lengthy blog on Cleaver East's own site, Dunne responded to O'Sullivan's article, adding: "As a direct result of this review I felt compelled to right a responding review on Lucinda’s verbal diarrhea[8] that she has been writing about Irish restaurants for years and directly having a negative impact on businesses and staff to boost her own ego."
Still, a deleted Twitter image is better than the debacle in 2011 involving a review written by AA Gill - chef Charlie McCubbin at the River Cafe in Brecon allegedly attacked a member of staff after the food was branded 'disgusting'.[9]
References
- ^ a review in the Irish Independent (www.independent.ie)
- ^ food (www.huffingtonpost.co.uk)
- ^ The pig's head was replaced with O'Sullivan's, reported The Daily Mail. (www.dailymail.co.uk)
- ^ Irish Independent (www.independent.ie)
- ^ Which British Restaurant Has Knocked The Fat Duck Off The Top Spot? (www.huffingtonpost.co.uk)
- ^ Food Hero: Gizzi Erskine On Eating Healthily (www.huffingtonpost.co.uk)
- ^ In the article, O'Sullivan says: "Dunne and Carville are talented chefs but Paul O’Connor, my dining companion, (www.lucindaosullivan.com)
- ^ Dunne responded to O'Sullivan's article, adding: "As a direct result of this review I felt compelled to right a responding review on Lucinda’s verbal diarrhea (cleavereast.ie)
- ^ a review written by AA Gill - chef Charlie McCubbin at the River Cafe in Brecon allegedly attacked a member of staff after the food was branded 'disgusting'. (www.telegraph.co.uk)
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