Cabramatta’s Silver Pearl blasts food blogger for trying to scam lobster meal

A food blogger has been named and shamed for allegedly cooking up a fake bout of food poisoning to wriggle out of paying for a lobster feast.

A flashy Sydney food blogger has been accused of faking food poisoning to avoid paying for an expensive lobster dinner.

The female blogger was named and shamed on social media by Cabramatta Chinese seafood restaurant Silver Pearl after she is claimed to have dined out on Christmas Day.

Silver Pearl’s social media picture of the blogger and friends with their lobster meal.

The blogger and her dining companions, who cannot be named here for legal reasons, stand accused of cooking up a bogus bout of food poisoning when they were halfway through a sumptuous meal of sashimi lobster.

Despite going on to polish off the whole costly crustacean, when it came time to settle up the $364 bill, the blogger allegedly refused to pay.

The blogger is also accused of heading straight from Silver Pearl to another seafood restaurant for a second meal of lobster and wine.

“How could anyone eat more of what made them ‘feel sick’ let alone another meal,” Silver Pearl managers wrote on Facebook.

The restaurant said staff went to great lengths to explain the fresh lobster was not frozen, as the blogger allegedly suggested.

… the party dined at another restaurant after claiming to have food poisoning.

Silver Pearl published screenshots from the food blogger that it said showed …

“Halfway through their meal they complained to us that they were feeling sick and accused us of serving them frozen lobster, instead of fresh live lobster, which apparently was the reason for them feeling sick,” the since-deleted Facebook post read.

“Our staff brought the head of the lobster out and even tried to explain to them how the head juices change colour based on the amount of time passed and since their order was only recently cut, they could see the juices were still vibrant. They tried to assure them that the lobster they chose was the lobster served to them.”

The blogger did not respond to this newspaper’s questions.

It’s not the first time she has attracted the ire of restaurateurs who say she asks for free meals in return for blog publicity.

Acclaimed chef and owner of Canterbury Mexican and Turkish fusion restaurant Pazar Food Collective Attila Yilmaz blasted the same blogger.

Yilmaz, who served 12 years with the NSW Police before switching careers in 2012, said the blogger wildly over-estimated her pulling power to negotiate free meals in exchange for posting pictures and glowing endorsements of the food.

“ … there’s no likes or comments about the food on the posts so it appears all fake,” Yilmaz said.

“She has been around for a couple of years, and she has hit me up, but I told her where to go.

“She enters into verbal agreement, stating she will bring business in, but she doesn’t deliver her end of the bargain.”