The end of Guy Fieri: NY Times review.

LloydXmas
LloydXmas Posts: 7,539
edited October 2013 in All Encompassing Trip
Had a rough night of sleep last night and stumbled upon this fantastic review


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/dinin ... .html?_r=0
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  • LloydXmas
    LloydXmas Posts: 7,539
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  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    edited November 2012
    Awesome review.

    I do like the dude's cook-books, tend to use them quite a bit. The thing is, a 500 seat restaurant seems to go against everything he talks about in his show. The stuff on the show is quite good from what I've made... What he can cook, I have no idea.
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  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    well ... if the review is indeed objective it wouldn't surprise me as manhattan is like that ... a lot of flash no substance ... although i'm surprised the times weren't gushing over the joint like they did over that fried chicken place (still bitter about that ... :lol::lol: ) ...

    also - if you watch the food network as much as i do (it's really like porn to me) ... you'll realize that he isn't that great of a cook ... his triple D show is a fraud ... pretty obvious - restaurants pay to be on that show as most of the things he highlights is just regular comfort food anyone at home can make ... nothing special at all ... and he has to fake his enjoyment of the food ... that's fraud right there ... so, if he opens a joint that is fraudulent - you already had a precedent ...
  • neilybabes86
    neilybabes86 Posts: 16,057
    polaris_x wrote:
    well ... if the review is indeed objective it wouldn't surprise me as manhattan is like that ... a lot of flash no substance ... although i'm surprised the times weren't gushing over the joint like they did over that fried chicken place (still bitter about that ... :lol::lol: ) ...

    also - if you watch the food network as much as i do (it's really like porn to me) ... you'll realize that he isn't that great of a cook ... his triple D show is a fraud ... pretty obvious - restaurants pay to be on that show as most of the things he highlights is just regular comfort food anyone at home can make ... nothing special at all ... and he has to fake his enjoyment of the food ... that's fraud right there ... so, if he opens a joint that is fraudulent - you already had a precedent ...


    i'd rather live in Kanada :roll: :lol:
    i post on the board of a band that doesn't exsist anymore .......i need my head examined.......
  • 81
    81 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    makes me just want to jump on a plane to NY. :lol:

    great review. :lol:
    81 is now off the air

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  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    neilybabes86 wrote:
    i'd rather live in Kanada :roll: :lol:

    that's why my friends in NY all want to move here ... :lol:
  • brosio
    brosio Posts: 60
    No self respecting New Yorker would eat in Times Square. We avoid that place like it has cooties.
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    Guy kept talking about opening a place in Seattle, did the rounds on radio and TV stations.

    Never heard if he ever did or not...but now I wouldn't want to eat there. :lol:
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  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    Reviewer kinda comes across as a snot nosed prick.
    Bright eyed kid: "Wow Typo Man, you're the best!"
    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
  • LloydXmas
    LloydXmas Posts: 7,539
    I'd like to see Anthony Bourdain's thoughts on this review.
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    LloydXmas wrote:
    I'd like to see Anthony Bourdain's thoughts on this review.

    http://www.uproxx.com/tv/2012/09/anthon ... guy-fieri/
    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    edited November 2012
    polaris_x wrote:
    also - if you watch the food network as much as i do (it's really like porn to me) ... you'll realize that he isn't that great of a cook ... his triple D show is a fraud ... pretty obvious - restaurants pay to be on that show as most of the things he highlights is just regular comfort food anyone at home can make ... nothing special at all ... and he has to fake his enjoyment of the food ... that's fraud right there ... so, if he opens a joint that is fraudulent - you already had a precedent ...

    No idea how good of a cook he is, but he comes up with some pretty kickass recipes that I've done at home.

    No doubt that triple D has alot of acting on it, but there's also some pretty creative chefs on there. Alot of it is mostly bar food, but there's quite a few restaurants that sound pretty awesome on there.

    As far as him being a fraud, I'd guess you could classify every regular chef on that channel as one.
  • 81
    81 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    RKCNDY wrote:
    LloydXmas wrote:
    I'd like to see Anthony Bourdain's thoughts on this review.

    http://www.uproxx.com/tv/2012/09/anthon ... guy-fieri/

    :lol::lol:
    81 is now off the air

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  • LloydXmas
    LloydXmas Posts: 7,539
    81 wrote:
    RKCNDY wrote:
    LloydXmas wrote:
    I'd like to see Anthony Bourdain's thoughts on this review.

    http://www.uproxx.com/tv/2012/09/anthon ... guy-fieri/

    :lol::lol:
    Hahahahhahahahhagahahhahahhahaga


    I fucking love him
  • DS1119
    DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    BinFrog wrote:
    Reviewer kinda comes across as a snot nosed prick.


    I agree. Plus I also believe that those who can't write about it.
  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    DewieCox wrote:
    No idea how good of a cook he is, but he comes up with some pretty kickass recipes that I've done at home.

    No doubt that triple D has alot of acting on it, but there's also some pretty creative chefs on there. Alot of it is mostly bar food, but there's quite a few restaurants that sound pretty awesome on there.

    As far as him being a fraud, I'd guess you could classify every regular chef on that channel as one.

    i don't see how that is the case ... sure, there are some great joints profiled on triple D but the reality is that most are not anything you wouldn't get at any local diner ...

    i'm sure he is a decent cook and the restaurant being profiled is up his alley ... american comfort food ...

    i'm not saying all the other chefs are great or whatever but that show is a big fraud to me and he hosts it so ... it's mostly guilty by association ... as much as i can't stand bourdain ... i don't see him going to an average at best joint and regurgitating phrases like "on point" and "killer this" or "killer that" ...
  • DS1119
    DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    polaris_x wrote:
    as much as i can't stand bourdain ... i don't see him going to an average at best joint and regurgitating phrases like "on point" and "killer this" or "killer that" ...


    You must have missed the episode of No Reservations where he went to Alice Cooperstown in Phoenix. Perhaps one of the worst joints I 've ever eaten (twice)and because it was Alice Cooper and he named a sandwich after Bourdain I practically thought Bourdain was going to blow Alice during the interview.
  • LloydXmas
    LloydXmas Posts: 7,539
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  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    DS1119 wrote:
    You must have missed the episode of No Reservations where he went to Alice Cooperstown in Phoenix. Perhaps one of the worst joints I 've ever eaten (twice)and because it was Alice Cooper and he named a sandwich after Bourdain I practically thought Bourdain was going to blow Alice during the interview.

    :lol::lol: ... didn't see that ...

    http://www.yelp.ca/biz/alice-cooperstown-phoenix

    3.5 star ... reviews are wide ranging ...
  • LloydXmas
    LloydXmas Posts: 7,539
    I'm Always skeptical of reviews on Yelp. I feel like most of good ones are from employees.

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