The latest restaurant closing for the troubled restaurateur.

The Angry Chef is now the sad chef.

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After being closed for HVAC problems since January, Diner, from Ron Eyester of now shuttered Rosebud and Timone’s, and The Family Dog – now under new ownership – is closed for good.

Eyester is a controversial figure in the Atlanta restaurant scene. He has made a name for himself as “The Angry Chef,” and under his Twitter handle of the same name, has been known to poke fun at his restaurant patrons. In 2011 he tweeted a picture of someone’s butt crack.

In a telephone interview with the AJC, Eyester lamented the shuttering of Diner: “I’m physically and emotionally exhausted from this whole process,” Eyester said. “It’s one of those situations where I was basically pushing a boulder up a hill every day. You could say that when it hit the fan, so to speak, I definitely lost a pretty significant amount of credibility.”

The Season 12 Top Chef contestant has had a hard time “professionally, financially and emotionally.” His financial difficulties spilled over into Diner, which never quite played out the way he imagined it would. Of the HVAC problems, he said : “There are some serious problems with the building. And honestly, if I had the financial means to really pursue it legally, I would have some legs to stand on. But unfortunately I don’t have those resources available to me now.”

The restaurant received several bad reviews in a number of publications including the AJC and Eater Atlanta.

What do you think of Eyester’s run in the Atlanta restaurant industry? Do you think Diner really could have made it were it not for HVAC problems? Tell us below…