Sad News, Fieri Fans: Guy's Popular Restaurant in Times Square Is Closing

From Good Housekeeping

It's the end of an era.

After five years, Guy Fieri's popular Times Square restaurant will close on December 31.

Guy's American Kitchen & Bar drew fans of the celebrity chef and tourists from across the world, despite receiving an infamous zero-star review from The New York Times in 2012 soon after it opened.

"How did nachos, one of the hardest dishes in the American canon to mess up, turn out so deeply unlovable?" Times critic Pete Wells asked in his scathing review of the restaurant. "Why augment tortilla chips with fried lasagna noodles that taste like nothing except oil? Why not bury those chips under a properly hot and filling layer of melted cheese and jalapeños instead of dribbling them with thin needles of pepperoni and cold gray clots of ground turkey?"

Even though Wells ripped the restaurant apart, others - including Chrissy Teigen - loved it.

While Fieri did not confirm why the restaurant is closing, the Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives host did say he was "proud" to serve millions of people at the restaurant and thanked his employees there, in a statement via a spokesperson to Eater.

If you've never been, there's currently plenty of reservations still up for grabs on OpenTable if you're curious to try out a plate of those "Guy-talian Nachos" for yourself. But act quick - you only have three days left.

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