Yesterday, CharlieTuEats posted a bloggy exhaustingly cataloguing a dinner at Chestnut titled Fill me up, fill me up. This post was very false. Charlie Tu did not eat this meal and has never eaten, nor likely every will eat, a tasting menu at this restaurant. It should not have been blogged.
Doing so violated both our loose standards and our skillz in publishing actual dining experiences of Charlie Tu. We have already expressed our regrets to Charlie Tu and we are now doing the same to you, our readers.
The post, like most posts these days, arrived by Hello Kitty herself. It is Charlie Tu Eats procedure to verify the authenticity of every nibbly. In this case, Charlie Tu Eats sent an edited version of the letter to the sender of the email and did not hear back. At that point, we should have contacted Hello Kitty’s office to verify that she (he?) had, in fact, written to us.
We did not do that. (We got distracted by Heroes.) Without that verification, the bloggy should never have been printed. We are reviewing our procedures for verifying Hello Kitty’s reports to avoid such an incident in the future. Bon appy!
Tags: apologies, Bertrand Delanoë, Caroline Kennedy, fraud, Hello Kitty, impeach bush now, nytimes, paris mayor
December 23, 2008 at 1:19 PM
In that case:
A friend was throwing a mini-dinner party and served braised ribs, grilled leaks with butter and garlic sauce and broccoli gratin. The ribs were covered in soy sauce and mustard and covered in onions.
the leeks were blanched and then grilled with olive oil (no garlic, no butter) and the gratin was califlower (no brocs in sight!)
ok cool. that’s kinda been bugging me as leeks with butter and garlic sounds kind of gross to me.
next time i will provide charlie with a menu souvenir!