New York Times Bestseller The entertaining irreverent and surprisingly moving memoir by
the visionary restaurateur behind such iconic New York institutions as Balthazar and Pastis.
A memoir by the legendary proprietor of Balthazar Pastis Minetta Tavern and Morandi taking
us from his gritty London childhood in the fifties to his serendipitous arrival in New York
where he founded the era-defining establishments the Odeon Cafe Luxembourg and Nell’s.
Eloquent and opinionated Keith McNally writes about the angst of being a child actor his lack
of insights from traveling overland to Kathmandu at nineteen the instability of his two
marriages and family relationships his devastating stroke and his Instagram notoriety.
