The television host and restaurateur responds to Peter Wells' harsh critique of Fieri's new restaurant UPDATED VIDEO
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UPDATE: Ironically, the New York Times held an event at Guy Fieri’s restaurant the same day that Peter Wells’ nasty review came out. The Times stated, “The Times ad sales department hosted an event for clients at the restaurant last night. The event was planned two months ago.”
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Guy Fieri responded this morning to the New York Times’ negative review of his new Times Square restaurant, Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar. (The review was so mean-spirited that it went viral yesterday). On the “Today” show Fieri said, “There’s good and there’s bad in the restaurant business, but that to me went so overboard, it really seemed like there was another agenda.”
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Marilyn Hagerty, the North Dakota woman whose earnest review of the Olive Garden went viral earlier this year, questioned Wells’ approach in the review. She wrote an email told Yahoo! News saying,”I do mention the good and the bad. If it’s all negative I wonder, ‘What is the point?’”
Twitter reactions, on the other hand, were considerably more amused than Fieri:
Best comedy writing in recent history? NYT review of Guy Fieri's new restaurant: nyti.ms/W6bnBN Observer's too: bit.ly/QPCUbU
— Dan Gurewitch (@DanGurewitch) November 14, 2012
Will spend the rest of the day trying to turn @guyfieri into a hipster icon. #thursday
— Rob Hoffman (@Rob_Hoffman) November 15, 2012
GUYS, Guy Fieri's Times Square restaurant is pretty terrible, and The Times is gloriously ON IT. nytimes.com/2012/11/14/din…
— The Times Is On It (@NYTOnIt) November 14, 2012