‘I thought it was ridiculous; that to me was so overboard,’ the Food Network chef said to NBC’s ‘Today.’ A Times review by Pete Wells savaged his new Times Square spot, Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar, which he admits is imperfect but says will get it right.
INDIANAPOLIS, IN - FEBRUARY 04: TV personality Guy Fieri attends Tabasco Buffalo Style Sauce At The Maxim Party at Indiana State Fairgrounds on February 4, 2012 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by John W. Ferguson/Getty Images for Tabasco)
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New York Times critic Pete Wells panned Guy Fieri’s new Times Square eatery, Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar.
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Guy Fieri is firing back at the New York Times food critic who skewered his new restaurant in a now-infamous review.
“I thought it was ridiculous; that to me was so overboard,” Fieri said on NBC’s “Today” show of Pete Wells’ critique.
“It's a great way to make a name for yourself -- go after a celebrity chef who is not a New Yorker.”
Wells panned Fieri’s new Times Square eatery, Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar, in the rhetorical-question-riddled review.
"Hey, did you try that blue drink, the one that glows like nuclear waste?” Wells writes. “The watermelon margarita? Any idea why it tastes like some combination of radiator fluid and formaldehyde?”
The Food Network host admitted that the scathing comments made him think twice about his restaurant’s offerings.
“We’re trying as hard as we can to make it right, to do it right,” he told “Today’s” Savannah Guthrie. “Is it perfect right now? No. Are we striving for it? Yeah.”
Not everyone, however, was turned off by the critique.
"I am planning on visiting Guy Fieri's NYC eatery this weekend because it can't be as bad as all those snooty New Yorkers say," fellow Food Network host Alton Brown tweeted.
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