The fact that bloggers are invited to review restaurants is not new news - in fact, it's a pretty well known fact. But it seems that some are getting a little too big for their boots, and going so far as throwing threats around when they don't get their own way.

One Dubai restaurant owner, Samer S. Hamadeh, has taken to Twitter to speak about his recent experience with an influencer, who was wanted to head down to check out cool new D3 restaurant, Akiba Dori.

"Just got legit ‘threatened’ by a food blogger after this sequence of events," Samer explained on Twitter, under the user name @IAmMrBrightside. "Blogger reaches out asking for invite to review my new restaurant.

"I say yes of course & that we have a set menu for bloggers + 1 friend at specific times."

Just got legit ‘threatened’ by a food blogger after this sequence of events:

1- Blogger reaches out asking for invite to review my new restaurant.

2- I say yes of course & that we have a set menu for bloggers + 1 friend at specific times. — Samer S. Hamadeh (@IAmMrBrightside) July 4, 2018

But it seems that wasn't enough for the mystery blogger in question

"Blogger replies saying no they want to invite 6 people for Friday night," Samer went on to add. "I explain we don’t do bookings so it would be bad for business to keep a table of 6 aside on a busy weekend night. Also invite is for 2."

3- Blogger replies saying no they want to invite 6 people for Friday night.

4- I explain we don’t do bookings so it would be bad for business to keep a table of 6 aside on a busy weekend night. Also invite is for 2. — Samer S. Hamadeh (@IAmMrBrightside) July 4, 2018

And that's when it turned nasty

"Blogger replies saying that they never get limited by any restaurant in the world and that they can pretty much make sure no one from the blogger community visits my restaurant EVER with one review so I need to decide," he adds. "I reply saying I look forward to reading it."

5- Blogger replies saying that they never get limited by any restaurant in the world and that they can pretty much make sure no one from the blogger community visits my restaurant EVER with one review so I need to decide.

6- I reply saying I look forward to reading it. — Samer S. Hamadeh (@IAmMrBrightside) July 4, 2018

Naturally, people have opinions...

probably one of the same bloggers that has 60k plus followers on IG with less than 100likes per photos. #makessense — Sarah Nossy (@SarahNossy) July 5, 2018

You should name and shame. Some of them have so much of ego and aren’t even as influential as their numbers claim them to be — Sharanya Paulraj (@sharusays) July 5, 2018

Hearing this is very irritating to me as a foodie/blogger, those so called “food bloggers” have put a dark taint on the rest of us who are actually doing it with passion & not for the “free food” & perks, if he/she were truly genuine they would visit without an announcement! — Muna Alshamsi (@MunaAlshamsi) July 6, 2018