I doubt it will be published – even on their site – but here’s what I wrote:

The only person “taking steaks quite this seriously” was a restaurateur who seemingly has more money than talent. When called on it, he responded by filing a lawsuit that is obviously nothing less than greymail.

Further, your assertion that “most everyone in the restaurant community knows what he looks like” has no basis in fact, and your claims that others have published pictures provide no justification for you to further the cause.

You have not just outed a critic, you have stolen from Philadelphia’s restaurant-goers a crucial tool in determining how to spend the hundreds of millions of dollars the restaurant industry generates annually.

In sum, then, your justifications for this action are at best fatuous, at worst outright dishonest. I won’t ascribe motive to what you’ve done, but one thing is clear – you’re a jackass.

Larry Platt is a sensationalist masquerading as a real editor and his minions are working for him because they can’t get jobs as real journalists. They pick the hyped issue at the moment and produced some fluff article regarding something that was covered by the local and national media many weeks back. Then they slap a picture of LaBan in a tacky attempt to sell their pathetic magazine.

They should stick to their glossy condo ads and their out-of-touch “Best [Hyped] of Philly” piece.