{"id":39369,"date":"2025-07-22T03:29:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T03:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/restaurateur-keith-mcnally-on-why-he-regrets-almost-everything\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T03:29:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T03:29:45","slug":"restaurateur-keith-mcnally-on-why-he-regrets-almost-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/restaurateur-keith-mcnally-on-why-he-regrets-almost-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Restaurateur Keith McNally on why he regrets &#8220;almost everything&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Restaurateur Keith McNally hates New Year&#8217;s Eve \u2013 he doesn&#8217;t like being told to have a good time. &#8220;I don&#8217;t like to be forced to enjoy myself,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;least hospitable man in hospitality,&#8221; as he calls himself, is not a big smiler, either. &#8220;Inside,&#8221; he explained. <\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t seem to have hurt. Over 40 years, he&#8217;s opened some of New York City&#8217;s most popular restaurants, among them The Odeon, Balthazar, and Pastis \u2013 institutions almost as well-known as some of the bold-face names that frequent them. But McNally himself has never been much of a publicity hound, even less so after suffering a stroke in 2016. &#8220;Naturally I&#8217;m a bit embarrassed to be on TV talking like this\u2014who wouldn&#8217;t be?&#8221; he said. &#8220;But it&#8217;s good for me to do it, because it gets me free of my embarrassment. Actually, I&#8217;m embarrassed talking about embarrassment!&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/17\/ef78f480-f07d-4065-95e2-b3f18b3f7608\/thumbnail\/620x349\/a9a26d2ba2e6531f53b5a4a60c94def6\/keith-mcnally-interview-a.jpg#\" alt=\"keith-mcnally-interview-a.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/17\/ef78f480-f07d-4065-95e2-b3f18b3f7608\/thumbnail\/620x349\/a9a26d2ba2e6531f53b5a4a60c94def6\/keith-mcnally-interview-a.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/17\/ef78f480-f07d-4065-95e2-b3f18b3f7608\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/cec18c2dfe93292fb7fd73d2466fd68d\/keith-mcnally-interview-a.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Restaurateur Keith McNally discusses his new memoir, &#8220;I Regret Almost Everything.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But the British-born McNally has largely overcome his embarrassment in a new memoir, &#8220;I Regret Almost Everything.&#8221; \u00a0&#8220;The drawback for me with most memoirs [is], if you&#8217;re not embarrassed by what you write, you&#8217;ve probably not spoken the truth,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If you don&#8217;t cringe over every word, it&#8217;s not the truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The hardest part to write, he said, was about his suicide attempt, &#8220;because my kids. I didn&#8217;t want to leave them at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That suicide attempt was two years after his stroke. He was found by his younger son, George. &#8220;He was supposed to not find me,&#8221; McNally said. &#8220;Like most teenagers he would sleep until noon. But that day he woke up early, at 8:00 o&#8217;clock.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You expected him to be sleeping later, he woke up early, he saw you?&#8221; I asked. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, the bastard just woke up early and saved my life!&#8221; he laughed. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-left embed--size-small\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/20\/716aa610-dfe2-4438-9506-30f780deb9b1\/thumbnail\/620x936\/ceba1555339de2787793795d2a70c2cb\/i-regret-almost-everything-simon-and-schuster.jpg#\" alt=\"i-regret-almost-everything-simon-and-schuster.jpg \" height=\"936\" width=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/20\/716aa610-dfe2-4438-9506-30f780deb9b1\/thumbnail\/620x936\/ceba1555339de2787793795d2a70c2cb\/i-regret-almost-everything-simon-and-schuster.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/20\/716aa610-dfe2-4438-9506-30f780deb9b1\/thumbnail\/1240x1872\/a0a39aaef781f069db340a91109ce6d4\/i-regret-almost-everything-simon-and-schuster.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Simon &amp; Schuster<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>McNally might joke about it now, but the father of five was suffering with an immobile right arm (he <em>was<\/em> right-handed), back pain, and aphasia (which causes his slurred speech), and his second marriage was falling apart. But as he writes, some sobering words from a doctor made him reflect: &#8220;He said that children who lose a parent to suicide were far more likely to kill themselves than the children of parents who don&#8217;t. That stopped me in my tracks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Because he had such trouble communicating verbally after his stroke, McNally began using social media. &#8220;I was so embarrassed by my speech and the way I looked, I didn&#8217;t go to my restaurants for one year,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I was ashamed. But eventually I realized, nothing to be ashamed about. So, not only did I admit it wasn&#8217;t a bad thing, but I went in on Instagram.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McNally went viral in 2022 with a post criticizing former late-night host James Corden for allegedly being rude to the waitstaff at Balthazar. But now, McNally confesses in his book he isn&#8217;t so sure calling out Corden was fair. He wrote: &#8220;For someone who&#8217;s hyperconscious of humiliation since suffering a stroke, it now seems monstrous that I didn&#8217;t consider the humiliation I was subjecting Corden to. I felt like I&#8217;d hit the jackpot of a slot machine and thousands of gold coins were spilling out in front of me. That night I ended up with over 90,000 followers. I was intoxicated with self-righteousness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Uh-huh, it&#8217;s true,&#8221; McNally said. &#8220;But afterwards, I felt really bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Corden later apologized. But the 73-year-old McNally has continued creating a stir online. Take <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DKMuwfNuST_\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">this recent post he wrote about his friend, ABC News&#8217; Diane Sawyer<\/a>, describing a weeklong affair the two had in the 1970s. The story made news \u2026 except that it was completely made up.<\/p>\n<p>I said, &#8220;Some people say, &#8216;Listen, Keith, you know, it&#8217;s really not cool for you to be sharing this.&#8217; And so, did you enjoy that back-and-forth with them?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes. Yeah, I&#8217;m afraid, I did, yeah,&#8221; he laughed. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I wonder, do you think that the stroke \u2013 I don&#8217;t know, is that, does that \u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Say what you think,&#8221; said McNally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, is it that you feel a little trapped inside of yourself?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No,&#8221; he replied. &#8220;I&#8217;ve always been a little like this inside. But since my stroke, and now on the outside.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McNally grew up in the East End of London, one of four children born to Jack, a dockworker, and Joyce, a house and office cleaner. The family had little money. &#8220;I got angry inside at my parents,&#8221; he said, &#8220;because we had no books in the house, no pictures on the walls. But they couldn&#8217;t help it. They were working class who grew up with nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McNally says he didn&#8217;t eat in a restaurant until he was 17. &#8220;Most of the time, when we were on a holiday, we would go to the restaurant, they would look the prices outside, and then she&#8217;d go, &#8216;Not for us.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And yet, when McNally moved to New York City in 1975 as an aspiring filmmaker, he made ends meet by working in restaurants. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t eat asparagus until I came here,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And the next day, I went to the doctor because the smell of my \u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was so pungent from eating the asparagus?&#8221; I asked. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, I thought I was sick! So, I went to the doctor. He said, &#8216;What&#8217;d you eat last night?'&#8221; McNally laughed. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know what? You gotta put that in the paperback,&#8221; I said. <\/p>\n<p>In 1980, McNally opened his own restaurant, The Odeon, in the neighborhood of Tribeca, in what had been a no-man&#8217;s land. An immediate sensation, it established certain McNally &#8220;musts,&#8221; such as the importance of having a hamburger on the menu. &#8220;I don&#8217;t like hamburgers much myself,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But it&#8217;s a sign of snobbery <em>not<\/em> to have a hamburgers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McNally prides himself on putting his staff above even his diners. Some of his employees have been with him for over 30 years. And ever since returning to work post-stroke, McNally has come to appreciate how they feel about him. &#8220;I had to talk to my staff and was really nervous,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They were really kind. In the end, kindness is really essential.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I asked, &#8220;The stroke lifted the veil on what they thought of you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, yeah,&#8221; McNally laughed. &#8220;They made me feel good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ AN EXCERPT:\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/book-excerpt-i-regret-almost-everything-by-keith-mcnally\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">&#8220;I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir&#8221; by Keith McNally<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WEB EXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/extended-interview-restaurateur-keith-mcnally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Watch an extended interview with Keith McNally (Video)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-video embed--type-content_video is-video embed--float-left embed--size-medium\"><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/extended-interview-restaurateur-keith-mcnally\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__icon\"><br \/>\n            <svg viewbox=\"0 0 32 32\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n              <use xlink:href=\"#icon-video\"\/>\n            <\/svg><br \/>\n          <\/span><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__headline\">Extended interview: Restaurateur Keith McNally<\/span><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__video-duration\">25:16<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em>If you or someone you know is in emotional distress or a suicidal crisis, you can reach the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/988lifeline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">988 Suicide &amp; Crisis Lifeline<\/a>\u00a0by calling or texting 988. You can also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/988lifeline.org\/chat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">chat with the 988 Suicide &amp; Crisis Lifeline here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For more information about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nami.org\/NAMI\/media\/NAMI-Media\/Images\/FactSheets\/HelpLine-Resource-Directory.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">mental health care resources and support<\/a>, The National Alliance on Mental Illness HelpLine can be reached Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.\u201310 p.m. ET, at 1-800-950-NAMI (6264) or email\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/restaurateur-keith-mcnally-on-why-he-regrets-almost-everything\/mailto:info@nami.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">info@nami.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>For more info:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<br \/><em>Story produced by Kay Lim. 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