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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
David Ellis

Keith McNally vs James Corden: Has New York’s most fearsome restaurateur finally met his match?

New York icon: Balthazar

(Picture: Getty Images)

Does James Corden know where the bodies — all the bodies, literally every single body — are buried? I ask because, after years of imprisoning celebs in the Karaoke Carpool Range Rover, yesterday he managed to get restaurateur-provocateur Keith McNally to back down. Or, I should say, do a U-turn. How extremely à la mode.

As you may have read, Corden — who it honestly wouldn’t surprise me to hear was planning a hostile takeover of the upcoming Paddington reboot (starring as Paddington, the Queen and Hugh Grant) — had been banned by McNally for being both “a tiny Cretin of a man” and “the most abusive customer to my Balthazar servers since the restaurant opened 25 years ago.” To be fair, Corden had threatened a bad Yelp review (always a c*** move).

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