Fieri's first New York City restaurant, Guy's American Kitchen and Bar, opened in 2012 to brutal "New York Times" coverage by Pete Wells that Larry Olmsted of "Forbes" called "the most scathing review in the history of the "New York Times"", and "likely the most widely read restaurant review ever." Fieri, for his part, accused Wells, the nation's highest profile reviewer, of using Fieri's fame as a platform for advancing his own prestige. The restaurant's location in the highly trafficked Times Square enabled it to appear on Restaurant Business's list of the top 100 independent restaurants as ranked by sales for four years in a row. It closed at the end of 2017.