Via Yelp.

The newly opened Tadich Grill has a 2.5 star rating on Yelp. But the reviews are as much about the food and ambiance as Walter Palmer’s Yelp business page is about his dentistry skills.

The 166-year-old Tadich Grill is a stalwart in San Francisco, and they recently chose to open their second outpost in D.C. “It’s all about location,” co-owner Yvette Buich told The Washington Post about their new perch opposite the Old Post Office Building.

As it turns out, though, how to open a high-profile business in your estranged daughter’s city wasn’t covered in Real Estate 101.

Terri Upshaw (née Buich) recently told her tale of being cut off from her parents to The Washington Post. And her family, which has owned the Tadich Grill in whole or part since the late 1800s, comes across as ugly racists. She describes growing up in an environment where non-white or non-Christian partners would never be tolerated, and the hostile aftermath of her proclamation that she’d fallen in love with an African American man—the football player and, later, head of the National Football League Players’ Association, Gene Upshaw. From The Post:

She says she broke the news to her brother and sister first. “They said, ‘I can’t believe you’re doing this.’ They said our parents would be livid, upset, disappointed, embarrassed, ashamed.”

Word got back to her father. She remembers how much she sobbed in that final family meeting with her parents and siblings. She was 23 and pleading for love — both theirs and her own. She thinks her mother and siblings were crying, but it has been so long. Only the final message was clear.

When she told her father that she had decided to follow the black man she loved to Washington, she says, “he told me that’s it — you’re out of the family. Change your last name, and don’t ever call us again.”

She did change her name, after marrying Upshaw in 1986. But when she tried to bring her oldest son to her parent’s house a few months after he was born, she was told to get out.

When Gene Upshaw accepted a job in D.C., Terri moved with him, and she still resides in Northern Virginia. Her now-80 something parents have never met her 28- and 25-year-old sons. Upshaw died of cancer in 2008.

The Buiches didn’t return the paper’s repeated requests for comment, so Terry Upshaw’s side of the story is the one we’re left with. She said she was telling her tale for the first time publicly because of how “archaic” it sounds now. Plus, “you move to Washington,” Upshaw said, “and everything comes out.”

The result has been an outpouring of disgust, and Yelp reviewers are working to ensure that all would-be customers know the story.

“I cannot with good conscience support or aid in the profit of a restaurant owned by individuals who knowingly continue the cycle of hate and racism in this country,” writes one viewer. “If the Tadich’s believe they are too good to be with people of color, I do not think DC is the right place for them.”

Adds another: “Hateful, racist cuisine, anyone? Don’t you enjoy supporting bigotry and racism while stuffing your gourd? If so, you have found your home away from home! These throwbacks from the 1950’s will disown those own daughter for marrying a black man and not acknowledge their own grand kids. They won’t even respond to the allegations because it’s the sad truth. Never been to DC, but when I do…I’ll be sure to eat ANYWHERE else but this dump.”

The response has been so swift and damning, that Yelp put into action its newly developed “active cleanup alert” for the restaurant’s pages in both D.C. and San Francisco.

“This business recently made waves in the news, which often means that people come to this page to post their reactions,” the note reads. “You are also welcome to post a review about this business, but we will ultimately remove reviews that appear to be motivated more by the news coverage itself than by the reviewer’s own customer experience with the business (even if that means removing points of view we might agree with).”