the restaurant critic, Gilboa dialect, harshly visited the “Eddie’s Hideout” restaurant in an industrial area in Eilat and even spat out some of the food. “This restaurant really belongs to the last century, this food cannot be eaten in the Israel of 2022 or 2023,” Gilboa said in the review and gave it a low score.
The son of the restaurant’s owner, Ashley Hatz, was not held accountable and attacked him for the criticism. “About a month ago, Niv Gilboa was a guest at my restaurant, I was very happy and excited to host him. The review he filmed here at the restaurant felt a little arrogant, cruel and irrelevant to me. After much deliberation with myself, I decided to respond,” he said.
“I cooked for you with love while you brutally destroyed my restaurant. I am in favor of factual criticism, but your criticism was offensive. There was evil in it. You disdainfully claimed that my food is already ancient and that there is no place for such food in today’s Israel, so I ask you – does a restaurant of 100 A year in France or Italy where recipes have been preserved for generations is also no place. To give such a title to your video is not a criticism, it is yellow and above all insulting,” he added.
In closing Ashley: Why do you belittle a painful family story? Why is it important to you to tell that one of the brothers burned down the restaurant? It’s so pathetic to touch an open wound of the family in any disrespectful way, you turned us into a punching bag to gain views and ‘authenticity’ you shamed us and were very cruel.” In a conversation with Aryeh Eldad and Ben Caspit on 103FM, Hatz read: “It’s easy to visit and finish – you can To say everything, but there is a way. We are really investing here.” He later shared that he did not speak with Gilboa after the video was published.