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James Corden reminds us how not to complain at a restaurant
As someone who eats out an average of 10 meals a week and hosts a weekly online dining Q&A, where rants tend to outnumber raves, I’ve learned a bit about human behavior and how to conduct oneself in a restaurant. Based on a manager’s report from June, the only thing Corden did right when he found a hair in his main course was to immediately bring it to the attention of staff. Complaining in the moment gives a restaurant the chance to right a wrong; after the fact lets a problem marinate, and not in a good way.
Let me be clear. It’s okay to complain. Conscientious restaurants use feedback from customers as a way to improve their performance. Loud music can be turned down, cushions might be added to hard seats, a table might be removed to give customers elbow room, and a lighter touch with salt or spice can translate to plates being licked clean.
In the face of shorter menus, curtailed hours and higher menu costs, diners who have been loyal and patient with the people who serve and feed them deserve to be heard — provided they do it with honey rather than vinegar. According to the June manager’s report, Corden became “extremely nasty,” demanding another round of drinks “this second” and insisting earlier drinks be comped. The TV host also allegedly used a four-letter word sure to rattle a restaurant: Yelp, and the threat of a bad online review. There’s a special hot spot for diners who not only berate workers in person but also pile the bile on social media.
On the recent brunch visit to Balthazar, Corden allegedly became irate after home fries were sent out with his wife’s remade egg yolk omelet when a salad had been requested. “You can’t do your job! You can’t do your job!” a manager’s report quoted the celebrity as yelling at his server. “Maybe I should go into the kitchen and cook the omelette myself!” (Really, sir? Does that work in reverse, when one of your jokes falls flat?) Yet another etiquette violation.
The best complaints stick to the facts and use a civil tone. More empathetic yet are diners who sweeten an issue with a compliment: “We’ve really enjoyed everything up to now. Thank you for that. But is it possible to share this (insert disappointment) with the (chef or whoever is responsible) and (correct the problem)?”
In what felt like a snap of the finger, Corden supposedly reached out to apologize to McNally, who then lifted his ban on the Brit.
But! But! But! Corden subsequently told the New York Times and others that he hadn’t done “anything wrong, on any level” and that the allegations were “silly.” McNally responded by encouraging Corden to admit his mistakes and apologize to his staff: Demonstrate sincerity.
Like the savvy restaurateur he is, McNally used a carrot rather than a stick to appeal to the celebrity. If Corden apologized, said McNally, “he can eat for free at Balthazar for the rest of the year.”
No word about how that offer went down with staff.
James Corden talks the Balthazar incident
When a well-known, long-time restaurateur calls you “the most abusive customer” to ever patronize an establishment in its 25 years, it might do you some good to grovel, or even spare a crumb of remorse. But it seems late-night jester James Corden feels as though the whole conversation about his table manners is just a little below him.
“I haven’t done anything wrong, on any level,” he tells The New York Times. “So why would I ever cancel this? I was there. I get it. I feel so Zen about the whole thing. Because I think it’s so silly. I just think it’s beneath all of us. It’s beneath you.”
It seems Corden’s opted to take the high road—sorry—the high and mighty road, to cast his eyes down upon people who think treating service workers like shit is detestable. He’d instead rather put on the hater blockers, deny deny deny, and talk about his new series “Mammals,” in which he plays a Michelin star chef, which can only be characterized as laughable after all *widely gestures* this.
“It’s strange. It’s strange when you were there,” Corden says on the subject. “I think I’m probably going to have to talk about it on Monday’s show. My feeling, often, is, never explain, never complain. But I’ll probably have to talk about it.”
He doesn’t seem to internalize this personal mantra of “never complain” too much, as indicative of his reported behavior at Balthazar, but certainly feels compelled to “never explain,” especially when it comes to what the hell an egg yolk omelet is.
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Corden then takes a strange moment to remind everyone that Twitter is not necessarily reflective of the real world, and in this augmented reality, “Hillary Clinton is the president of the United States.”
“Should we not all be a little grown-up about this?” he says. “I promise you, ask around this restaurant. They don’t know about this. Maybe 15 percent of people. I’ve been here, been walking around New York, not one person’s come up to me. We’re dealing in two worlds here.”
In response, Balthazar’s owner Keith McNally says this:
I’ve no wish to kick a man when he’s down. Especially one who’s worth $100 Million, but when James Corden said in yesterday’s NY Times that he hadn’t done “anything wrong, on any level,” was he joking? Or was he denying being abusive to my servers? Whatever Corden meant, his implication was clear: he didn’t do it. Although I didn’t witness the incident, lots of my restaurant’s floor staff did. They had nothing to gain by lying. Corden did.
I wish James Corden would live up to his Almighty initials and come clean. If the supremely talented actor wants to retrieve the respect he had from all his fans (all 4 of them) before this incident, then he should at least admit he did wrong. If he goes one step further and apologizes to the 2 servers he insulted, I’ll let him eat for free at Balthazar for the next 10 years.
Your move Corden.
James Corden briefly banned from Balthazar restaurant in New York
In June, McNally said, Corden demanded that a round of drinks come “this second” and that his previous drinks be comped because he had found a hair in his food — after finishing his main course. Corden was “extremely nasty” to the manager, McNally said.
On another occasion this month, Corden came to the restaurant with his wife for brunch and complained to their server that there was “a little bit of egg white” in her egg yolk omelet, McNally said. The dish was remade but sent out with the wrong side — home fries instead of a salad — which was apparently the last straw for Corden.
“You can’t do your job! You can’t do your job!” Corden said to the server, according to McNally, citing a manager’s report from the incident. “Maybe I should go into the kitchen and cook the omelet myself!” When Corden erupted at the server, free glasses of champagne were brought over “to smooth things out.” The episode left the server “very shaken.”
A representative for Corden did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A manager at Balthazar declined to comment when reached by phone late Monday evening.
McNally’s ban on Corden was not the first time he had taken to Instagram to bar a customer from one of his restaurants. Last year, he publicly banned magazine editor Graydon Carter from Morandi, an Italian restaurant in New York City, after he said Carter didn’t show for a 12-person reservation. (McNally said at the time that he had brought in extra workers to ensure that the lunch went “perfectly for him,” and that Carter had reneged on reservations on other occasions at his restaurants, including Balthazar.)
McNally has a reputation for being provocative, at least in his Instagram posts and defenses of controversial celebrities; he has defended Woody Allen, whose daughter Dylan accused him of sexual abuse. Amid backlash over that, and an incident in which he told a woman on Instagram that she looked like a “hooker,” McNally told the Daily Beast that despite being a Democrat, “I hate cancel culture and political correctness.”
But late Monday evening, McNally said he was reversing the ban on Corden after the comedian called to apologize. McNally said he “apologized profusely.”
“I strongly believe in second chances,” McNally said. He added that “anyone magnanimous enough to apologize” to him and his staff “doesn’t deserve to be banned from anywhere.”
Corden, who gained widespread notoriety for his “Carpool Karaoke” segments, is set to depart from his role as host of “The Late Late Show” by summer 2023, he announced in April.
James Corden Grovels, Is Forgiven by Keith McNally After Being Banned From Balthazar for Being Abusive
Famed restaurateur and Instagram maven Keith McNally has revoked his ban on James Corden from one of his restaurants after the late-night host apologized over allegations of rude behavior toward staff.
“James Corden just called me and apologized profusely,” McNally confirmed, welcoming him back to the restaurant while claiming all is forgiven.
In an Instagram post on Monday, McNally complimented Corden as a “hugely gifted comedian” before ripping into the Brit as “a tiny Cretin of a man” and “the most abusive customer to my Balthazar servers since the restaurant opened 25 years ago.”
The French restaurant, located in Manhattan’s trendy SoHo neighborhood, is a hotbed of celebrity sightings, with Vogue editor Anna Wintour and actress Sienna Miller among its regular clientele.
“I don’t often 86 a customer, [but] today I 86’d Corden. It did not make me laugh,” McNally wrote in his post, before detailing two unfortunate outbursts by Corden that were written up by the restaurant’s managers.
In one of the reports, an unnamed manager recounted a time in June when Corden allegedly found a hair in his dish and showed it to another manager, identified only as “G.”
“Corden was extremely nasty to G, and said: ‘Get us another round of drinks this second. And also take care of all of our drinks so far. This way I write any nasty reviews in yelp or anything like that,’” the manager wrote.
In another instance dated Oct. 9, Corden allegedly called over a server to complain about his wife’s egg yolk omelet, which was apparently tainted by a bit of egg white. That same day, Corden was in town for The New Yorker Festival, where he had an hour-long chat with writer Rachel Syme.
“The kitchen remade the dish but unfortunately sent it with home fries instead of salad,” the manager shared, according to McNally. “That’s when James Corden began yelling like crazy to the server: ‘You can’t do your job! You can’t do your job! Maybe I should go into the kitchen and cook the omelette myself!’”
Representatives for Corden and McNally did not respond to requests for comment from The Daily Beast.
In a follow-up post Monday night on Instagram, McNally said Corden “just called me and apologized profusely.” McNally said that he had “fucked up myself more than most people” and that he strongly believe in second chances.
He joked: “So if James Corden lets me host his Late Late Show for 9 months, I’ll immediately rescind his ban from Balthazar. No, of course not, he said.”
“But… anyone magnanimous enough to apologize to a deadbeat layabout like me (and my staff) doesn’t deserve to be banned from anywhere. Especially Balthazar. So Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Corden.”
He ended with: “All is Forgiven. xx.”
Back in April, Corden announced that he’ll be stepping down as host of The Late Late Show on CBS next year, adding that he’d been thinking of leaving for “a long time.” The actor and comedian, who appeared in 2019’s Cats and last year’s remake of Cinderella starring Camila Cabello, has hosted the late-night show since 2015.
McNally is the owner of several high-profile restaurants in Manhattan, including Pastis, Morandi, and Minetta Tavern. The restaurateur is known for his off-kilter and brutally honest Instagram account, where he occasionally shares anecdotes from his restaurants as well as his occasionally controversial opinions on current events, including his continued support for friend and frequent restaurant guest Woody Allen.
Last year, McNally banned Graydon Carter from his restaurants after the former Vanity Fair editor made a reservation for 12 people at Morandi but didn’t show up, even after extra staff was called in to help with service.
“I’ll tell you one thing,” McNally wrote on Instagram at the time. “That fancy fucker will never be allowed to make a reservation at one of my restaurants again. Never.”
Carter later called McNally’s post “deranged” in an interview with People.
Keith McNally Claims to ‘86’ Comedian James Corden From Balthazar
Keith McNally, the provocative restaurateur behind Manhattan restaurants Pastis, Minetta Tavern, and Balthazar, appears to have banned British comedian James Corden from the latter restaurant for mistreating its workers over multiple visits. The alleged incidents, which surfaced in an Instagram post shared by McNally on Monday, involve Corden yelling at servers and demanding free drinks from the French bistro’s staff.
In the post, McNally claims that Corden has been “86’d,” a term used to indicate that a dish is no longer available or a customer is being denied service. “James Corden is a Hugely [sic] gifted comedian, but a tiny Cretin [sic] of a man,” McNally shared in the post. “And the most abusive customer to my Balthazar servers since the restaurant opened 25 years ago.”
McNally recounted an incident in June, when Corden allegedly found a hair in his meal and demanded, “another round of drinks this second,” threatening to write “nasty reviews” of the restaurant online. During a separate incident at Balthazar in October, the comedian began “yelling like crazy” after finding traces of egg white in his wife Julia Carey’s “egg yolk omelette with gruyere cheese,” McNally claims.
“You can’t do your job,” Corden allegedly yelled at staff during the October incident. “Maybe I should go into the kitchen and cook the omelette myself!’” McNally claims the comedian “behaved similarly” at Cafe Luxembourg, the Upper West Side restaurant he opened in 1983 and has since stepped away from.
Eater has contacted Corden’s publicist and representative for more information.
Since joining Instagram roughly two years ago, McNally has become known for his unconventional and at times problematic social media presence. The restaurateur is an outspoken defender of Woody Allen, the director accused but not charged of child abuse by daughter Dylan Farrow, and recently praised Roman Polansky, a separate director who was arrested and charged with statutory rape in 1979.
This is a developing story and Eater will continue to update this post with more information.