Florida is a favorite of celebrity chef Guy Fieri with dozens of restaurants statewide featured on his Food Network show “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.”
But does Palm Beach County hold a special place in the spikey blonde’s heart over other Sunshine State locations? Maybe. In 2022, the Mayor of Flavortown donated donated $20,000 to Lake Worth Community High School’s culinary academy. More recently, Fieri fed Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office employees from his new East Coast Disaster Relief Trailer in April.
And in November his foundation joined Rocco’s Tacos & Tequila Bar in Boca Raton to raise money for hospitality workers affected by 2024 hurricanes.
Fieri has also bought and sold real estate in two Palm Beach County cities, including a sale this year of a waterfront home in Lake Worth Beach.
When did Guy Fieri buy homes in Florida, Palm Beach County?
Guy Fieri, whose birth name is Guy Ramsay Ferry, bought a waterfront home in March 2021 for a recorded $3.9 million in Lake Worth Beach, which is just south of West Palm Beach.
The 7,400-square-foot home is in an exclusive seven-home gated community where one of his neighbors was Olympia Bishop, sister to actress Brook Shields.
Two years after the purchase in Lake Worth Beach, Fieri bought a second home on Singer Island in Riviera Beach. The $7.3 million Mediterranean-style house is on a coveted corner lot on Singer Island in Riviera Beach less than 2 miles from the Lake Worth Inlet, also called the Palm Beach Inlet.
The buyer in official Palm Beach County records on both homes was a limited liability company called Gus Ritchie 1 — a possible play on the names Gus Ferrari and Guy Ritchie, which Fieri has said fans have called him by mistake.
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What has happened to Food Network star Guy Fieri’s Lake Worth Beach home
Fieri put his Lake Worth Beach home on the market in September 2023. The list price for the 6,000-square-foot home was $8.75 million.
That price was slashed several times before it sold in January for $7 million. While that’s nearly double what Fieri paid for the home, it’s $1.75 million less than what he hoped to get for it.
The price drop wasn’t unusual as the housing market has cooled from its rocket ship ascent during the pandemic. About 28% of Palm Beach County single-family homes were forced to drop prices in January 2025, according to the online brokerage firm Redfin. That increased to 30% in April..
Who bought Guy Fieri’s Lake Worth Beach home
Kiara King, left, shows off her autographed shoes by Guy Fieri that she paid 6,000 dollars for at an auction for disaster relief on Monday night. Rocco’s Tacos & Tequila Bar and the Guy Fieri Foundation partnered to raise money for hospitality workers affected by hurricanes Helene and Milton on November 18, 2024, in Boca Raton, Florida.
The buyers of the 24-year-old house were Las Vegas restauranteurs Frank Bonanno and his wife, Betty Pellegrino Bonanno, according to Palm Beach County official records.
Frank Bonanno is president of Fifth Avenue Restaurant Group. His first forays into the culinary industry included the 1976 creation of the Famous Chocolate Chip Cookie Co., which eventually was sold to the Mrs. Fields cookie empire.
Fifth Avenue operates more than 40 restaurants in the Las Vegas area, according to its website.
Does Guy Fieri still have a home on Singer Island in Riviera Beach?
Fieri still owns the property he purchased on Singer Island in Riviera Beach. The nearly 10,000-square-foot waterfront property has room for a 100-foot-yacht.
The Singer Island home is not in a gated community but is located on the dead-end street Coral Way. It has 230 feet of water frontage on the Intracoastal Waterway and a canal.
Built in 2008, it has a total of 9,870 square feet with 6,620 under air conditioning. There is a three-car garage, a large pool, summer kitchen, five bedrooms, hand-carved coral stone fireplaces and pecky cypress ceilings.
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Whether Fieri kept the furniture, which included a smothering of leather and heavy dark wood pieces, is unknown but sources familiar with the sale said at the time that the chef visited the home more than once and would likely undertake a hefty remodel.
Prior to Fieri buying the home in 2023 for $7.3 million, it had last sold in June 2022 for $7.9 million.
The property is not homesteaded, which is a designation that caps property tax increases if the owner registers the home as their primary residence.
Is Guy Fieri moving to Florida permanently?
It’s unknown if Guy Fieri plans to move to Florida permanently.
He told the Bradenton Herald in 2021 that his family would stay in Northern California at least until his youngest son Ryder finishes high school.
Ryder Fieri graduated high school in 2024. Guy Fieri and his wife Lori moved Ryder into his dormitory at San Diego State University in August of that year, according to People. Fieri’s older son, Hunter Fieri, graduated with a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.
Kimberly Miller is a journalist for The Palm Beach Post, part of the USA Today Network of Florida. She covers real estate, weather, and the environment. Subscribe to The Dirt for a weekly real estate roundup. If you have news tips, please send them to kmiller@pbpost.com. Help support our local journalism, subscribe today.
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