Salon.com > Pete Wells http://www.salon.com Sat, 25 May 2013 01:08:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The New York Times barbecues Guy Fieri http://www.salon.com/2012/11/16/the_grey_ladys_critic_is_as_nasty_as_guy_fieris_food/ http://www.salon.com/2012/11/16/the_grey_ladys_critic_is_as_nasty_as_guy_fieris_food/#comments Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:43:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13100740 It was an unlikely attack — a strike launched from the Grey Lady and aimed squarely into the heart of raucous, loud, hypermasculine Times Square. It was a carpet-bombing disguised as a restaurant review. Behold our bold new world of both food and journalism – loud and ugly.

In an epic takedown on Tuesday,  the New York Times' Pete Wells peered underneath that famous, brightly colored rock called Guy Fieri and explored the wriggling mass of disgusting horror that is Guy's American Kitchen & Bar in Times Square. The result was unquestionably funny. Written exclusively in the interrogative, Wells' review was a smirking demand for accountability from its spiky-haired, human Ed Hardy tattoo host Fieri, a guy who's such a guy his name is Guy. "When you hung that sign by the entrance that says, WELCOME TO FLAVOR TOWN," demanded Wells, "were you just messing with our heads?"

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