A couple weeks ago, the St. Petersburg Times in Florida caught Food Network personality/chef Robert Irvine (Dinner: Impossible) in a web of untruths---that he was a knight and worked at the White House are just a couple gems. After the story made its way around the blogosphere, his bio was removed from the Food Network website and tweaked on Wikipedia. Kinda shady. But this reminds us of a story we heard about a chef in Riverside, Brein Clements at Omakase, which was just reviewed in the Los Angeles Times. In addition to getting two stars from S. Irene Virbila, she touts Clements "stints" at several notable restaurants in the Bay Area, including Manresa in Los Gatos. Odd thing is, no one from that restaurant seems to remember him.
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