In case you miso-ed this.
Lovin’ Dublin‘s review (top) and the response (above).
The end of snarky but often spot-on online reviews?
FIGHT!
Court tells Lovin’ Dublin to remove bad restaurant review from website (TheJournal.ie)
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Irony is a funny thing, complaining about a bad review gets you way more attention than just ignoring it.
Dopes
I haven’t been to kokoro in ages. I think I might go there tomorrow.
Let us know how you get on. Don’t get the skuts now.
Haribo isn’t a likeable guy but surely there can’t be legal action over a bad review? Plus, the sushi did look fairly shitty.
But it’s not a review its a hatchet job but the law suit was about unverified claims harbo made in his review that were allegedly defamatory.
this story is so, like, 3 o’clock.
Sorry Scottser Bodger thought I was doing it and I thought Bodger had done it. Will we ever learn?
cue Benny Hill music
I regularly get lunch in the South William St branch of Kokoro.
Delicious food, good value and the staff are friendly.
I think it’s €7.20 for miso soup and a main course.
And they give free green tea..
Hello management / staff of sushi shop!
I sent this earlier!!
take a ticket fluffy..
They are my least favorite sushi of any in Dublin but.. I wouldn’t call them “super shitty”. It’s still pretty good! Also “super shitty” is not the most eloquent food reviewing I’ve ever heard.
You’re obviously not familiar with no bullshit, down with the kids, lovin fuppin dublin
As long as said kids aren’t knackers.
Raw fish with extremely strong spicy stuff on it sounds pretty sh*tty anywhere though.
Sushi is overpriced by a lot in Ireland. Also its not very fresh in all of the supermarket packs that I’ve had.
Why is it so expensive here?
because you’ll pay for it.
Not any more! I make my own. Take that w*nkers!
Why would you expect it to be good if you buy it in a supermarket?
Complaining about supermarket sushi is like complaining about petrol station sandwiches
Actually, in NZ the sushi from supermarkets is as good as what you get in a sushi place in Ireland and about half the price.
Is this not because the review was just not bad but had unverifiable info in it?
Just bumped into Paul O’Grady at Kings Cross, told him I was more of a cat person…got straight bitchslapped
So in May 2013 he lists the restaurant on the top 10 Sushi places to eat in town
http://lovindublin.com/best-of/10-best-places-eat-sushi-dublin
They don’t sue for that.
In November he reviews a new location (?) bemoaning the problem with chain restaurants that don’t provide the same service
http://lovindublin.com/reviews/japanese/super-shitty-sushi-on-south-william-street
But of course they do sue for that.
wtf. How can you sue someone for a review?
doesn’t look great from that photo btw, come get me.
Actually after reading the cached version he really said a lot of things there he shouldn’t have.
How do you find that?
By having a brain.
I see jock isn’t letting Xmas get in the way of being a waste of space
You’re the one that can’t find a cache of very recent web page. It’s internetting 101.
On a phone, no I can’t. But at least I’m not a person offers absolutely nothing but moaning and spite so that makes me happy
Since it is christmas I will do you a kindness and teach you something.
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/1687222?hl=en
Yes, I know that thanks *rolls eyes*
No you didn’t, that’s why you asked. Makes no difference if you’re on a phone.
Yeah, it does if you have the mobile site which doesn’t give you that option Banotti/Jock. Doesn’t matter as the site is gone. As I wish you were.
Banoffi got a brain.. show off.
All you need now is a personality.. Santa might be good this year.
Take lovin Dublin and their crass language to the cleaners- I’ll eat at Kokoro every day for a month!!
city wok
That blog is ni more than a courter of controversy
Nice one braveheart
Theres the famous Irish case of a Belfast pizza place that successfully sued over a bad newspaper review a few years ago, it was eventually overturned.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/mar/11/medialaw.pressandpublishing
Is it North Korean sushi by any chance?
A review from a punter, as opposed to a qualified restaurant critic is merely an opinion. A customer can have a bad experience on the day – and write up a bad comment which can affect business drastically – which is why qualified food critics tend to balanced and professional with their criticism and highlight the good and the bad. Calling something ‘sh*tty’ certainly exposes an unqualified critic so you would wonder why a food site with a large following such as Harbo’s can get away with just one reviewer’s opinion. Anyone who recalls the light-hearted PubSpy series in the Sunday World rag will recall that Mr. Pub Spy brought a companion for their feedback also.
Interestingly, the Hoops have a list of sushi places on Foursquare where comments from customers are aggregated, and Kokoro receives a mixed faring on that; https://foursquare.com/v/kokoro/4afebff2f964a5202c3022e3
It’s fine for the fast-food style of sushi and it has no pretences or ambitions to be more than that.
+1
“Calling something ‘sh*tty’ certainly exposes an unqualified critic ”
I dunno about that.
Stephen Fry on sweering-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_osQvkeNRM
Spot on reviews!? Are you nuts!? Harbo doesn’t know his arse from his elbow when it comes to food and restaurants. Remeber he raved about Zaragoza when it opened and EVERYONE else in the city, including reviewers who’d been revieweing for decades, thought it was absolute shite? I do. I remember that.
I find their pieces poorly written and often contain typos
…we don’t have any restaurant reviewers with credibility in this country like Andy Hayler, Jay Rayner,
Elizabeth Auerbach, etc….the difference is….. they pay their own bills and write wonderfully.
I love Kokoro! So there ‘Lovin Dublin’, you’re not the boss of me.
The problem wasn’t that Harbison gave a bad review but that he made some allegedly defamatory statements about the food being made days in advance. He said he knew it was because of the “way it was stored” and not because he had actually eaten it. He also claimed that the use of smoked salmon indicated that it was prepared well in advance as as it gave a longer shelf life than fresh salmon.
The nori is long and thin with this one, young Harbison
Follow up headline – ‘Miso Sorry’
I tip my hat to your Sir.
No matter. They still going to sue-he!