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It's Sunday April the 2 around 9:45AM and

Sunday Styles: Alexandra Gill vs Rare One

Friday. The Globe and Mail rolls off the presses with Alexandra Gill's restuarant review of Rare One. (Rare One) She wasted no time before unloading on pretty much everything: blogs, eGullet, and the food. It was the food critics equivelent of William Shatner's famous Saturday Night Live skit about Trekkies.

"When it was announced on eGullet that one of their own was opening a restaurant, there was a natural flurry of excitement, followed by a special pre-opening dinner for the tight-knit group of obsessive foodies, waiters, chefs, magazine executives and restaurant critics who make up the local eGullet contingent."

Of course this little review got the eGullet crowd to put down their foie gras and pick up some six shooters. Andrew Morrison, the Waiterblog, described it this way, "Your story read as an attack on eGullet and blogging. Rare One, it seems, just sort of got in the way." Morrison does a good job of laying out the whole bruhahas on his blog too.

Not that there is anything wrong with this whole eGullet forum thing. I enjoy reading about cute dessert chefs like Ling or Hamilton Street Grill's Neil Wyles saying things like, "disclosure - I am Brian's hairy chef lover." It is tres fun. But I do find the format of Egullet is hard to read, follow, and I hate emoticons, so I rare-ly - pardon the pun - go. The fact that this caused postings to be deleted is pretty lame. Alexandra even posted too, but it seems to be gone now. At the end of the day, she did her job. She got people to read, think, and then fight. Sure she's the hatchet woman everybody loves to hate, but every city needs at least one.

The end. "So everybody... set your phasers on stun, cause... THIS CONVENTION'S AHEAD WARP FACTOR NINE, Y'KNOW? RIGHT! ALL RIGHT! WARP FACTOR NINE!"