[miss marmelstein]

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.

[Nifster]

The NY “food critics” don’t like Guy. They would have never praised anything he did

[texas booster]

Fieri is an entertainer first, and knows how to keep his shows entertaining. I am one that looks up various DDD restaurants when I travel.

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.

[ifinnegan]

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.

[EveningStar]

That review is from five years ago.

Their average Yelp rating is 3 stars. That's not stellar.

[LouieFisk]

“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.

[EveningStar]

It was the Times that killed it dead with its initial review.

Not true. The review stimulated business and the place lasted five more years after the review.

[editor-surveyor]

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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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[Calvin Locke]

...just a putdown of Guy.

I remember the story. The food was cold and overpriced, and the service poor, according to the critic.

Fieri's backers told him to get his butt out to NYC, and he made the talk show rounds the day after the review, claiming start-up quirks.

His fans still supported him, though.

I'm not one of them, and I really started to detest him when another fraud, Robert Irvine, was doing a charity event for Fieri, some equipment problems cropped up, and Fieri declined to let Irvine's crew use a nearby Fieri restaurant to help alleviate the issue.

[Rome2000]

He’s too alpha male for the fags at the NYT.

And he’s not over the top macho, basically a nice guy that has a good show and has turned lots of people on to lots of great places to eat.