The famous restaurant in New York, Keith McNally, overturns beans on an icon of “incredibly coarse” music which would have once reduced a waitress to tears.
In his next book, “Regret PRESH EVERYTHING”, McALLY says that Patti Smith was still rude to wait for the staff of the fifth restaurant in the 1970s, where he was the Director General.
In an extract, obtained Grub Street from the New York, McALLY remembers that the singer “because at night” was eating frequently at the Hotspot restaurant with her then boyfriend, the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The ex-Mapplethorpe Wagstaff have often joined the couple.
“Smith and Mapplethorpe could be very difficult to wait,” writes McNally, 73 years old.
“Smith, unfortunately, was incredibly rude with the servers. It is impossible for me to listen to a song by Patti Smith today without remembering that she reduced a waitress to tears because she forgot to put bread on the table,” he said.
McNally notes that although MappleThen “can be laconic with the servers, he has never tried to lower them as Smith did.”
Smith representatives did not respond to page Six for comments.
The extract prompted social media users to offer comments on the tale.
“He is not lying on Patti Smith,” wrote a person in the Instagram publication section of New York magazine. “I witnessed his rudeness years ago to work a banquet.”
“Whoever meets knows that she can be really horrible towards the people she thinks of being below her. It’s a shame.” wrote another.
But all the comments did not agree, some fans defending the singer, 78.
“Enough with the insipid and old story of McNally on a” coarse “patti smith. She was young and had to face heaps of s-t, and today is grace. Why does Keith not focus on this?
“Surprising about Patti Smith … I know the people who have spent time with her in recent years and she was sweet as it could be,” noted another.
This is not the first time that McNally has called coarse restaurant customers.
In 2022, he castigated James Corden for his behavior at the McNally Balthazar restaurant.
He said that the British talk show host had been rude to wait for the staff, described him as a “tiny moron of a man” and prohibited him from the restaurant.
Corden then apologized for his behavior, which led to an elevator of the ban.
McNally also ended up restaurant criticism and the editor -in -chief Graydon Carter.
“I regret almost everything” arrives at the shelves on May 6.
