<![CDATA[Wine Spectator Gives "Award Of Excellence" To Fake Restaurant]]>

1.0 link 120444 <![CDATA[Wine Spectator Gives "Award Of Excellence" To Fake Restaurant]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/21/emwine-spectatorem-gives_n_120444.html The news that Wine Spectator magazine was scammed into giving an Award of Excellence to a non-existent restaurant has been greeted with guffaws by schadenfreude fans and with fury by the magazine's editor.

But longtime readers of the Dining section might have seen this coming. Five years ago Amanda Hesser wrote that the magazine granted the award, the lowest of three levels of recogntion by the magazine, without actually inspecting the restaurants involved. Restaurants submitted a wine list, a menu and...

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