Guy Ramsay Fieri born January 22 1968 is an American restaurateur chef author and an Emmy Awardwinning TV host He coowns three restaurants in California licenses his name to restaurants in New York City and Las Vegas Nevada and is known for hosting several television series on the Food Network By 2010 The New York Times reported that Fieri had become the face of the network bringing an element of rowdy massmarket culture to American food television and that his primetime shows attract more male viewers than any others on the network