He memorably opined that James Corden was a ‘hugely gifted comedian but a tiny cretin of a man’, before banning him from his acclaimed New York brasserie, Balthazar, for allegedly screaming at staff after finding a hair in his food.
Since then, Keith McNally has kept the pot bubbling by publishing an uninhibited memoir in which he disclosed that, in his youth, he had a five-year romance with playwright Alan Bennett.
But now he’s yearning for incineration – not of food or reputations but an entire cafe/restaurant in Sloane Square, Chelsea. ‘I’m praying the place burns to the f***ing ground before Christmas,’
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