Look, this is my blog, and Casa SaltShaker is my restaurant. Both are a product of an immense amount of labor on my part, and I love doing them. If you had a point to make that you wanted to make to me alone, you could have sent an e-mail, or if you felt like making public comments, you could have done so on another forum. However, you have chosen, more than once, to post sarcastic, snarky comments on the public space on my blog – that choice loses you, as far as I’m concerned, any right to anonymity (not that posting something online has any rights of that sort to begin with) – especially when this one is based on some assumption about my cooking that, not having been here, you have no first hand way to judge. For all you know, our food, ambiance, and service are better than Astrid & Gastón’s, and cheaper – not that I’m laying claim to the former (and really, it’s a completely different sort of dining experience), but the truth is, you simply don’t know.

As to the review, and your comments, as I said in my response, I’m glad that the chef is getting to “up the spice” so to speak and that the food is coming together, or, perhaps, we just have different tastes. That doesn’t invalidate the quality of the experience on the night we were there, which is the only basis I have to judge it on until my next visit. And the fact that you decided to throw in some cost/comparison figures that were blatant nonsense, and attempt to steer readers to another website as your personal better choice than mine, well, you have your response.