{"id":199440,"date":"2019-03-14T11:54:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T09:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/?p=199440"},"modified":"2019-03-14T16:55:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T14:55:25","slug":"can-a-negative-review-close-a-restaurant-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/can-a-negative-review-close-a-restaurant-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a negative review close a restaurant down?"},"content":{"rendered":"

 \"\"<\/i>I saw an article by Post & Courier recently, randomly as I do not follow this publication, and was attracted to its topic, being the impact of restaurant reviews and their power to close a restaurant down. Being our country’s harshest restaurant reviewer, this got me thinking about why the top chefs in our country, including Giorgio Nava, Bertus Basson, Peter Tempelhoff, Liam Tomlin, and Scott Kirton & Co are so sensitive to constructive criticism by banning (or attempting to) me from their restaurants, yet new (to our country) chef Wunderkind Rikku O\u2019Donnch\u00fc of G\u00e5te Restaurant welcomes it so!<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s begin with the longest-standing dislike and ban by Chef Giorgio Nava, an Eat Out superstar in his day with 95 Keerom Street restaurant. When he opened Carne restaurant across the road from his then award-winning restaurant, he felt it necessary to lie about the origin of his beef, lamb, and game, and claimed that it was organic, without it being validated by any testing authority. I did an investigation, and called him out on his dishonesty. Legal action was commenced, but when I presented the truth and proof, the defamation case with a demand for R300000 damages quietly was withdrawn, a confirmation of the dishonesty! Because of my posts about the matter, Nava has seen fit to ban me! He has never made the Eat Out Top 20\/30 list since my expos\u00e9. <\/p>\n

Restaurant News: Carne ‘admits’ claims were a con!<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n