http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/omnivore A blog dedicated to the discussion of food, restaurants and life Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:00:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/omnivore/2008/09/02/an-award-for-the-nonexistent/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/omnivore/2008/09/02/an-award-for-the-nonexistent/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:14:52 +0000 Cliff Bostock http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/omnivore/2008/09/02/an-award-for-the-nonexistent/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/omnivore/2008/09/02/an-award-for-the-nonexistent/feed/ 0 The best restaurants are the imaginary ones. Last week, Besha wrote about a nonexistent Milan restaurant that won a prestigious award from Wine Spectator magazine. The New York  Times‘ Stanley Fish has written a column about the matter too.  His first paragraph: Last week the New York Post’s Page Six picked up on a story that had [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/omnivore/2008/08/21/wine-spectators-award-of-excellence-goes-to-fictitious-restaurant/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/omnivore/2008/08/21/wine-spectators-award-of-excellence-goes-to-fictitious-restaurant/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:31:29 +0000 Besha Rodell http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/omnivore/2008/08/21/wine-spectators-award-of-excellence-goes-to-fictitious-restaurant/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/omnivore/2008/08/21/wine-spectators-award-of-excellence-goes-to-fictitious-restaurant/feed/ 0 I’ve always wondered about Wine Spectator’s awards – they seem to show up at restaurants with all kinds of wine lists. As long as the list is long-ish and has a few really expensive bottles, the overall quality doesn’t seem to matter that much. Now some guy has received the award for a restaurant that [...]