I Regret Almost Everything (A Memoir)
BOOK SUMMARY
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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Keith McNally, called "The Restaurateur Who Invented Downtown" by The New York Times, founded Balthazar Restaurant, Balthazar Bakery, Pastis, Minetta Tavern, Pravda, Schiller's Liquor Bar, Morandi, Cherche Midi, Lucky Strike, Nell's, Cafe Luxembourg, and the Odeon, plus the staggeringly unsuccessful pizzeria, Pulino's. McNally is the author of The Balthazar Cookbook and Schiller's Liquor Bar Cocktail Collection, and the writer and director of two features, End of the Night and Far from Berlin. He lives in downtown New York.
PRAISE
"This book is a triumph." —Tina Brown
"A magical, tender, revealing, rude, honest, very funny and very vulnerable book. It is about more than McNally's gift for creating magic-making restaurants—it also powerfully describes what goes on in his head: the self-reflection, the intellectual ambition, the relentless self-doubt. McNally writes with a novelist's feel for what happens in the powerful silences between people. I was blown away. This is a frickin' masterpiece that will be read and talked about for a long time." —Bill Buford
"Moving and poignant, Keith McNally's book shifts between the arc of his illness and that of his work without any bitterness or self-pity." —Anna Wintour
PRODUCT INFORMATION
Hardcover 320 pages Non-fiction 9 in H | 6 in W | 1.1 in T | 1.2 lb
