US EditionBook Review: Restauranteur Keith McNally opens up in candid memoir 'I Regret Almost Everything'
- In 2022, restaurateur Keith McNally posted a scathing Instagram message calling actor James Corden a 'tiny cretin' after a negative incident at McNally's New York Balthazar restaurant.
- The post followed Corden's disrespectful behavior toward waitstaff, including telling a server, 'you can't do your job,' which McNally said led to a temporary ban later reversed.
- Despite Corden's repeated apologies and multiple requests to remove the post, McNally kept it online and offered Corden free meals for ten years if he apologized directly to the insulted servers.
- McNally, who has owned 19 restaurants since opening The Odeon in 1980, revealed in his candid memoir 'I Regret Almost Everything' that he survived a 2018 suicide attempt following a stroke and personal struggles.
- The incident and memoir highlight McNally's blunt personality and enduring influence in New York's dining scene nearly five decades after launching his first restaurant.
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James Corden asked “many times” for post calling him a “tiny cretin” to be removed, says restaurant owner
James Corden made multiple requests for an Instagram post calling him a “tiny cretin” to be taken down, says the restaurant owner who made the upload. READ MORE: Gavin & Stacey review: a near-perfect celebration of everything that made the show great in the first place The scathing post against the Gavin & Stacey star and former host of The Late Late Show was first shared in 2022. It was made by restaurateur Keith McNally, who hit out at Corden…
Keith McNally’s memoir is strangely unappetizing
Harvey Weinstein has a memorable walk-on role in Keith McNally’s memoir I Regret Almost Everything. Taking a break from being New York’s most celebrated restaurateur, McNally wrote and directed a film called End of the Night that was screened at Cannes in 1990. Its auteur hoped that Weinstein, who distributed the previous year’s Palme D’Or-winning picture Sex, Lies, and Videotape, would warm to it. He was blunt: “I didn’t like your film and I’m …
Keith McNally on Regret and Recovery
The New York Times once called Keith McNally the “Restaurateur Who Invented Downtown”—but the Balthazar founder is so much more than that. And he detests the word “restaurateur.” McNally got his start in 1975 bussing tables in Manhattan at Serendipity and shucking oysters at One Fifth. Five years later, he founded The Odeon, the first of his iconic collection of restaurants that defined the downtown scene. He’s also a director whose debut thrill…
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Book Review: Restaurateur Keith McNally opens up in candid memoir 'I Regret Almost Everything'
Keith McNally has been charming New York City diners since he opened his first restaurant, The Odeon, in 1980, helping transform a then-derelict TriBeCa into a hotspot for the “glitterati," hosting celebrities like Andy Warhol and John Belushi.
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