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Outed L.A. Times restaurant critic won’t stop writing reviews

For anyone who hasn't been following along, here is the story of S. Irene Virbila, the veteran Los Angeles Times restaurant critic, and Noah Ellis, the Beverly Hills restaurateur who outed her.

It began Tuesday night. Virbila and several friends had been waiting 45 minutes for a table at Red Medicine, a new Vietnamese food joint where Ellis is a managing partner. Upon learning that Virbila, who had logged her reservation under another name, was indeed Virbila, he marched up to her, snapped a photograph, and asked her entire party to leave. She was banned.

Ellis elaborated in a post on Red Medicine's Tumblr page: "We find that some of her reviews can be unnecessarily cruel and irrational, and that they have caused hard-working people in this industry to lose their jobs — we don't feel that they should be blind-sided by someone with no understanding of what it takes to run or work in a restaurant."

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