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 I REGRET ALMOST EVERYTHING, 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.

Books by Keith McNally

I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir

by Keith McNally - Memoir, Nonfiction

I REGRET ALMOST EVERYTHING is a memoir by the legendary proprietor of Balthazar, Pastis, Minetta Tavern and Morandi. Keith McNally takes us from his gritty London childhood in the ’50s to his serendipitous arrival in New York, where he founded the era-defining establishments the Odeon, Cafe Luxembourg and Nell’s. Eloquent and opinionated, McNally writes about the angst of being a child actor, his lack of insights from traveling overland to Kathmandu at 19, the instability of his two marriages and family relationships, his devastating stroke, and his Instagram notoriety.