It’s bar food ! If you were expecting else then you don’t know Guy.
I have no doubt that the food was mediocre; that’s what Times Square is. But Pete Wells went out of his way to kill that restaurant. You do know that The Times does not generally review tourist spots, don’t you? They hit either very high end or the diverse ethnic restaurants of Bk’lyn & Queens. They don’t review Olive Garden. That review was meant to kill off Guy Fieri’s restaurant because he’s vulgar in a way no Times critic can stomach. Today, they are comparing him to the President in his over-arching “vulgarity.” I reject that crap.
No it isn’t stellar but reading some of those reviews one gets the sense that some folks just wanted to put down a tv chef