I bet they just watched Guy Fieri's DDD & picked stuff off of there depending on what glowing things Guy had to say. Have you note that he never dislikes any of the places on the show? Sort of like the Sam Brown (Travel Channel) school of finding something positive to say about the most boring lackluster places in the world. I know it's not Baltimore City, but Phillips by the Sea in the Beach Plaza Hotel in OC has been having amazing eggs Chesapeake forever complete with ocean view (and on lucky days, schools of dolphins). I bet they got no love at all! And to further sum up the Obrycki Effect but to change the local to OC, tourists will stand in ridiculous lines to get into the original Phillips Crab House (which is not good) but I've never had trouble getting a table for breakfast at Phillips by The Sea (maybe a 20 minute wait at most in season).

BTW, what's up with Guy pronouncing his last name "Fietti" all of a sudden? I had to google the spelling because it made me unsure if he spelled it as I thought "Fieri".

Guy Fieri? I always pronounced his last name "doosh".

I can't watch any of those horrible food networks and shows. I thought about it once and then realized, oh I have food in my kitchen. Food voyeurism makes me sick and swallowing some idiot's subjectivity fills me full of nauseating nothingness.

First instinct is that "Guy" is going all menu-gumbah on us. You know how people who over-pronouce Italian menu items as is they actually spoke the language (which they don't).

No, that's not it, since his REAL NAME IS GUY FERRY. I know, who would name their kid that except perhaps a weird love child of GOP manly men Senators Lindsey Graham and Saxby Chambliss?

... not that there's anything wrong with that...

fi-EHHH-ri ... in his lame attempt to embrace his fake ethnicity via his fake name he's trying to over-trill his fake r's and it's coming off sounding like t's. vetty interesting

Didn't Pontiac used to make a Fieri on the hope that people would confuse its name with a Ferrari.

It was the Pontiac Fiero.

I guess it being a two-seater and with what looks like a mid-engine, maybe they were going for the faux-Ferrari look.

Yes, Pontiac made something called a Fiero. I'm sure it fooled a lot of people. It was a lot more successful than the Chrysler Portia, the Buick Mizzeratty, the AMC Rose-Royce, or the Ford Hamburgini.

Ah, the Fiero. It looked sharp and had all the reliability you'd expect from Pontiac. Which is to say that it looked really good in your driveway.

I see on Guy Fieri's website that he calls himself "Guido" now. From Guy Ramsay Ferry to Guido Fieri in a TGIF minute. America – where you can grow up to pretend to be anything you want.

Owlie, why are you on Guido's website?

Media-darling restaurants are their own self-fulfilling prophecy. Someone writes an article about Blue Moon. So the next journalist doing their research sees an article about Blue Moon, and includes it in their article. Then the next writer sees two articles about Blue Moon and thinks, "huh, must be a popular breakfast place." So they write an article about this popular breakfast place called Blue Moon. Then a magazine decides to write an article about the "most popular breakfast place," sees three articles about Blue Moon, and decides it is the clear winner. And so on. Fwiw, I think Blue Moon is fine, but I agree with EL that there are many other fine places that could have been written about. Baltimore is a GREAT breakfast town.

Oh, and Guy Fieri has been pronouncing it "Fietti" since they very beginning. I know because, to my embarrassment, I watched that season of TNFNS and my friends and I used to make fun of it even back then.

Owl: Guid has a guestbook where you could have asked him why he is becoming so fake ethnic. I would be curious to read his answer, not that he would answer that one!

Okie Dokie, I'm an uncivilized cretin. Why? Because I enjoy Guy's show. Call me crazy, call me what you like, the show doesn't pretend to be something its not. It's ordinary people, running ordinary businesses, some with great food, some not. It's America and I like the tone and feel of the show.

Gosh, the superiority vibe is so awesome sometimes eh?

A month or so I read some aweful customer reviews of the place in the aftermath of its TV debut saying the press had gotten to their heads - very unfortunate. I'll still be making the trip over to find out for myself though...

I watch the show too, it is a great place to see off-beat restaurants.
I don't think people are as much criticizing the show as criticizing the host for his new-found ethnicism (?).

I admit that I know nothing about Guid(o) Fietti except that he is the annoying red-faced Irish-looking asshat who screams something about how awesome TGIFriday's is. That's all I need to know. Next!

I'm going to do a show where I visit McDonalds across the country and comment on how they ALL TASTE THE SAME!!!!!

Welp, I agree with LouieNCanton to a point--I like DDD. On the other hand, I do NOT enjoy any of the "Challenge" shows. Yes, Guy is a tad much, but it's all in fun, ain't it?

I will not wait in their line. I will however wait in Miss Shirley's line. Maybe that'll change when its warmer out. Not much space for those who wait at Blue Moon.

I'm with Dottie on this. It's just fun. It doesn't pretend to be anything else. Of course he likes everything. That's the whole premise of the show. I doubt I'll be seeing him tooling up to Moe's Haus O' Fried Innards in his shiny red Camaro. :-)

RayRay- Save Moe's for Anthony. Bourdain went there during his rust belt excursion I think...

I really don't find myself watching nearly as much of TFN as I used to and it's kind of sad. Because I'm a kind of accomplished home cook (I like to think anyway), in the old days they taught me a lot of techniques, proper names (mirapois, chiffonade, etc.). They introduced me to new spices and flavorings like truffle oil (yuim) and how to grind spices in a coffee grinder or a mortar and pestle. None of which, they seem to do anymore. And the contests & competitions are just completely boring and out of hand. Especially the fruit sculpting. Snore!

I now find I get the most of the PBS cooking shows ironically (since they were the first ones I watched - in between wrestling and Ernest Angley. Anybody remember Killer Kowalski? Gorilla Monsson?)

I don't watch the show very often but he doesn't like everything he eats. I've seen him rather horrified on more than one occasion. (The funniest being some kind of mexican soup in a gas station)

Not too sure of the flow of logic with the article recently posted about the Blue Moon Cafe receiving national acclaim. You praise and recognize the cafe as an excellent breakfast joint. You probably should have stopped right there. Why not praise the Blue Moon for receiving national acclaim. Be proud that a "greasy" Baltimore joint has brought national recognition to Baltimore. After all, don't you work for the "BALTIMORE" Sun?? Oh, but I forgot that sometimes it is that sort of standoffish aloofness that keeps you food critics in business...

Aloof aloof aloof is on fire

Greasy? I've eaten at Blue Moon Cafe, and it wasn't greasy.

Of course, I'm no food critic...

Anybody remember Killer Kowalski? Gorilla Monsson?

Don't forget Burno Samartino.

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Anybody remember Killer Kowalski? Gorilla Monsson?

Don't forget Gorgeous George.

and Andre the Giant.