About 100 spiky-haired Guy Fieri enthusiasts are expected to take Manhattan on Saturday, clutching their one-way tickets to Flavortown.
The second annual FieriCon — a pub crawl for fans of the Food Network’s bombastic personality — kicks off at 1 p.m., stopping at four bars before landing at Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar, the chef’s widely derided restaurant in Times Square.
Expect to see a flurry of Fieri’s flaming Hawaiian shirts, frosted hair and exotic goatees.
“Guy is one of the most hilarious and absurd human beings in the world,” says one of the event’s masterminds, David Gold. The 24-year-old Lower East Sider organized the first FieriCon with friends after spending many afternoons watching Fieri’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.”
“We just thought, it’s kind of amazing that this guy can go through life dressing like that and talking like that, and we wondered what it would be like to do that for a day,” says Gold, who works for a tech startup.
Like the debauched Christmas-themed bar crawl SantaCon, this one encourages participants to dress the part. The group’s Web site, FieriCon.com, suggests what to wear and where to find it, such as the Fieri do and goatee ($23.99 from Amazon) and the $5 X-Loop Sunglasses, which the site says must be worn backwards.
The tour starts at Hog Pit (37 W. 26th St.) and wends its way to Pioneers Bar (138 W. 29th St.) at around 2:30 p.m., Stout NYC Flagship (133 W. 33rd St.) at about 4 p.m. and the Keg Room (53 W. 36th St.) at 5 p.m. or so.
“They’re unpretentious and not too expensive,” Gold says of the chosen bars. “And they’re just on the way to Guy’s Kitchen.”
Last year’s FieriCon drew 100 fans, some of whom bleached their hair for the occasion. Gold says he’s hoping for the day Fieri himself shows up. (The chef declined The Post’s request for an interview.)
Gold says the emphasis of the day will be on living life with Fieri-esque zest — and, of course, eating tons of highly flavorful food.
“I don’t know what else we could have done dressed as Guy Fieri,” he says.