{"product_id":"i-regret-almost-everything-a-memoir-9781668017647","title":"I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe entertaining, irreverent, and surprisingly moving memoir by the visionary restaurateur behind such iconic New York \u003c\/b\u003einstitutions\u003cb\u003e as Balthazar and Pastis.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKeith McNally, called \"The Restaurateur Who Invented Downtown\" by \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Balthazar Cookbook\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSchiller's\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Liquor Bar Cocktail Collection\u003c\/i\u003e, and the writer and director of two features, \u003ci\u003e End of the Night\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFar from Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in downtown New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gallery Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51254217605394,"sku":"9781668017647","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_abb9a4d9-7b1c-45cf-9113-ba3ed1f07796.jpg?v=1746315473","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/i-regret-almost-everything-a-memoir-9781668017647","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}