Fieri's Eatery Skewered By Pete Wells

Guy Fieri's eatery in Time Square was skewered by New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells in the latter's latest review article.

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Wells, who visited Fieri's American Kitchen & Bar four times before writing his review, awarded the restaurant zero stars and gave it a rating of "poor."

To make it easier for Wells to structure his piece, he used questions throughout his review of the Food Network star's new restaurant. The following are excerpts from Wells' New York Times article:

"Did panic grip your soul as you stared into the whirling hypno wheel of the menu, where adjectives and nouns spin in a crazy vortex?"

"Hey, did you try that blue drink, the one that glows like nuclear waste? The watermelon margarita? Any idea why it tastes like some combination of radiator fluid and formaldehyde?"

"When you hung that sign by the entrance that says, WELCOME TO FLAVOR TOWN!, were you just messing with our heads?"

"Somewhere within the yawning, three-level interior of Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar, is there a long refrigerated tunnel that servers have to pass through to make sure that the French fries, already limp and oil-sogged, are also served cold?"

"Is the entire restaurant a very expensive piece of conceptual art? Is the shapeless, structureless baked alaska that droops and slumps and collapses while you eat it, or don’t eat it, supposed to be a representation in sugar and eggs of the experience of going insane?"

The said review has received mixed reactions online. Some have called it "merciless" and "too harsh." There were also positive responses.