Eater has a short piece about chef Graham Eliot Bowles asking his restaurant staff to remove ABC critic Steve Dolinsky from GEB's restaurant. The chef had apparently banned the critic from his property, and asked his staff to evict Dolinsky when he became aware the critic was in the house.
There's a history:
Elliot tells Eater Chicago, "When he ate at Charlie Trotter's and live tweeted through the whole meal how shitty it was, to me that's so egregiously over the line that I absolutely will not have someone like that at my establishment." Elliot considers Trotter to be one of his mentors.
GEB apparently has limited tolerance for positions other than what he describes as "true". According to the piece, GEB has been tossed off Yelp for responding truthfully (in his opinion) to reviews and comments that were inaccurate (again, in his opinion).
But, he comp'd the meal, such as it was
Contrast this to Rutt's Hut, an old school Jersey hot dog legend. You can't even get across the parking lot without encountering pigeons who are so bold that they try to take bites of hot dogs from people who are walking to their cars. These pigeons are so brazen that they routinely shake down rats for lunch money.
hotdoglover, describing the well known Clifton NJ dog house
