The restaurateur recalls Donald Trump was an “intrusive New Yorker with diabolical taste” during real estate meeting years ago

Keith McNally remembers its most notorious Run-ins with WHO’s-who in New York City in its new memoir, I regret almost everything.

While the restaurateur spills anecdotes and snappy stories about celebrities from all social strata – such as the time he Incredibly forbidden James Corden from his restaurant Balthazar after claiming that the actor was “offensive” to his staff-a special walk down Memory Lane McNally to try to buy properties from now President Donald Trump.

“Although I missed meeting Henry VIII with four hundred years, I met his modern counterpart, Donald Trump,” Pennally Pens in his novel and told readers that Trump had invited him to look at the restaurant space to rent in a building he owned at Manhattan’s Upper West Side. “As we walked through a series of over -decorated spaces, we passed one that was noticeably less Gaudy than the others. I asked Don if that restaurant space was also for the rent.” No, it has been taken. I guaranteed it to someone else a month ago. ”

McNally added Slyly, “It was a break before Trump added a smile:” But just because it is guaranteed does not mean it is locked up. ”

In the end, the restaurateur did not stop renting the space.

McNally told People in an exclusive interview that Trump was a regular one on his NYC -Hotspot, Balthazar, for two years after the opening in 1997.

“Even then he seemed like a caricatur of a rich, intrusive New Yorker with diabolical taste. But he was not offensive. He was actually very decent for me,” McNally said. “At the same time he was not too light and if anyone had told me that one day he would be president, I would have thought they were certified.”

Fixed I regret almost everything Will offer readers a glimpse of the glamorous and sometimes devastating life of McNally and his portfolio of New York City Dining destinations, the restaurateur people say he hopes that readers will come away with a more introspective view of life as a whole after reading through his own story.

“If (people) discover anything at all from reading my book, I hope it is the idea that it is okay to change you, and that not all questions have a right and wrong answer. That it is okay to reject all things we learn is sacrosan,” McNally said. “Like continuing with your siblings and parents. Like thinking that all holidays are good. Like thinking that the shit that your child is born is the biggest event in your life. And to try as hard as possible to contradict your own opinion.”

I regret almost everything Is out Tuesday, May 6 and is available for pre -order now, wherever books are sold.