The restaurant Per Se—once declared “the best in New York” by the New York Times—has fallen from the grace of Times food man Pete Wells, who just downgraded it to two stars (or “very good”) after encountering an apparent cacophony of horrors during his most recent visit.
A bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich can be many things: good, bad, cheap, expensive, readily available, rare, redemptive, a thing to argue about endlessly with respected colleagues. It is not, however, a “secret handshake that New Yorkers exchange” or anything else that Pete Wells describes it as in his recent and…
NY Times restaurant critic Pete Wells admits he is "skeptical of pasta salad." Media bias is everywhere.
Guy Fieri, better known as Mountain Dew in human form, has recently been trying to save his image in the wake of Pete Wells' damning New York Times review of his Times Square restaurant, Guy's American Kitchen & Bar.
Actually, it's not entirely clear why Bobby Moynihan didn't get to reprise his role as controversial restaurateur Guy Fieri for this past weekend's Saturday Night Live, but thankfully a dress rehearsal recording of Moynihan as Fieri responding to Pete Wells now-legendary takedown of Guy's American Kitchen & Bar has…
The New York Times drew first blood in its war against the peroxide hairdo known as Guy Fieri. After Pete Wells wrote his now-viral review of Fieri's Times Square tourist-trap house-of-horrors restaurant, Guy's American Kitchen & Bar, Fieri fired back on national television.
As you are probably aware, New York Times food critic Pete Wells became the most important man in America this week after eviscerating Guy Fieri's Times Square restaurant for essentially being Guy Fieri in building form — a bloated, neon monstrosity serving unappetizing food obnoxiously. Here's the thing, though,…
God bless Marilyn Hagerty. The octogenarian North Dakota columnist whose earnest Olive Garden review went viral earlier this year has been far too busy with her own exploits to keep up with the Great New York Times Donkey Sauce boondoggle.
Guy Fieri can't imagine anyone disliking his food, so he's concluded that New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells' scathing — and scathingly funny — review of his Times Square restaurant must be due to a personal grudge Wells is holding against him.
Did you hear? New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells reviewed Guy Fieri's new Times Square restaurant, Guy's American Kitchen, and he really hated it. Can you believe that? America's haughtiest paper disliked America's bro-iest chef's new venture in America's crassest den of commercialism outside of Las Vegas.…
For some reason, I decided to torture myself the other day by reading Pete Wells' four-star review of Le Bernardin in the New York Times. The Times sent Wells there to reaffirm that Le Bernardin is a really good place to eat and — SURPRISE! — it still is. Not that you'll ever be able to afford to eat there. There are…
Congratulations to New York Times dining editor Pete Wells, who was just named as the paper's new restaurant critic. Here are some pictures of him, in case anyone is curious what he looks like. For some reason, the Times has been scrubbing images of him from the site.
This week, New York Times Dining section editor Pete Wells is being forced to answer the questions of Times readers in Talk of the Newsroom. Wells—a relative newbie to the paper, as he arrived from Details in October, 2006—apparently hasn't learned about the Times' code of omerta. In response to a reader's inquiry as…
Hey, Arianne, it'll be news when someone praises Frank's prose.
