Here’s a mini-restaurant review for Spanish Tasting Bar, a new restaurant not coming to Vancouver:

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“I had the pleasure of dining with a couple of young Argentinian restaurateurs the other night. Chef Simon Ibanez (just 28, from Buenos Aires), his wine-growing partner Javier Russo (from Mendoza), and Russo’s wife Nora (a Canuck straight out of Shaughnessey) are opening a new 45 seat modern Spanish tapas bar simply called “Spanishâ€? in a killer space in Gastown not far from So.cial at Le Magasin (not allowed to say exactly where yet).

Nothing out of place – lots of spaces opening in Gastown with cool food and the like.  Except this restaurant was invented by Urban Diner, a local writer/blogger of the food scene to out somebody copying his work.  Here’s the Google cache of the offending review on Martini Boys  Too bad, sounds like another cool restaurant that I would unfortunately not get around to visiting for months… This is why the blogosphere should be taken with a grain of salt, maybe a large flake of Spanish sea-salt in this case.