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Chef and restaurateur Roberto Donna is so fed up with bad food critics that he’s starting his own blog to criticize their critiques.

A Scorching Response To A Food Critic
By Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts

Bad reviews are an occupational hazard of the restaurant business, and most chefs just bellyache or cry in their soup. Not award-winning Roberto Donna, who’s started a high-profile food fight with Washingtonian magazine dining editor Todd Kliman. Donna is so upset about the review in this month’s issue that he’s starting a blog to critique local restaurant critics. “If you want to write a bad review, that’s fine,” he told us. “But write it with the truth.”

I wish I could link to Donna’s blog, but apparently he hasn’t actually started it yet:

Donna’s unnamed blog is slated to begin next month, and he’s printing up thousands of bumper stickers for his customers and fellow chefs: “Don’t Believe the Washingtonian.”

Of course, some critics (at least, the blogging kind) might be tempted to purposely say something bad about Donna in order to gain page views from the upcoming anti-critic blog. Should be fun to watch!