Posted on 12/30/2017 12:57:13 PM PST by EveningStar
Five rocky years since its arrival in tourist mecca Times Square, Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar from television rock star Guy Fieri will shutter. December 31 is the last day for the ill-received, yet still wildly popular restaurant that served as a touchstone for Fieri fans ...
There were both very high highs and very low lows for Guy’s throughout the years — most famously when Fieri took home the top prize at the 2013 Food & Wine festival burger bash and most infamously when Times critic Pete Wells positively skewered the restaurant in an unprecedently scathing zero-star review...
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Taxes........just guessing.
Snotty article in the Times about this restaurant which seated...500 people. (It was the Times that killed it dead with its initial review.) No pity for the many folks now out of work; just a putdown of Guy. I know lots of people don’t like him for some reason but the man knows food and how to cook.
Maybe Pete Wells the NYT’s restaurant critic can open something there since he knows so damn much.
The NY “food critics” don’t like Guy. They would have never praised anything he did
Well, it is in NYC, so no one gives a damn.
While he is to the left of center of Free Republic, he is no Clinton sycophant like Bourdain.
Still, any restaurant that can rent that much floor space in Times Square, and keep that much staff on the payroll, deserves a hat tip.
5 star food? Probably not, but if the Slimes food critic hated it, then I would have enjoyed myself.
I’ve seen the show and like it. I like learning about all the different places and food.
I’m not sure how much I ever liked Fieri. But I gotta give him credit to turning us on to a restaurant that, say, sells chicken fried bacon.
I always want to go to the places he profiles.
Another limp-wristed NY Times columnist adds nothing to the economy but contributing to one of the worst sources for fake news.
Knew a “food critic” when I lived in the UK. Complete *sshole. I knew more about food than he did.
Taxes AND $15/hr for staff.
People won’t spend $35 for a hamburger and a beer.
“It was the Times that killed it dead with its initial review.”
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Only an idiot would let any newspaper - let alone the NYT - decide where they choose to eat.
This the guy who looks like a hedgehog?
Not true. The review stimulated business and the place lasted five more years after the review.
Minimum wage is going up here in NYS again, even higher in NYC. Bet that’s part of it.
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>> “I know lots of people don’t like him for some reason but the man knows food and how to cook.” <<
Fieri is fake!
His restaurants sell “sustainably raised” fish.
Do you understand what that is?
Farmed fish raised on chicken excrement and deadly drugs.
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How does anyone write this? Because one NY Times critic didn't like the calamari?? Restaurants are businesses and if it was wildly popular, then it was definitely NOT "ill-received."
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