NYC restaurateur Keith McNally spills the beans in 'I Regret Almost Everything'

You are not the kind of girl who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning. But here you are, and you cannot say that the terrain is entirely unfamiliar. You are at a bar talking to a guy with a shaved head. The spot is either the Odeon or Lucky Strike. All might come clear if you could just slip into the bathroom and do a little more Bolivian Marching Powder. Then again, it might not. — heavily cribbed from “Bright Lights, Big City” by Jay McInerney.

If you were in New York in the 80s, it was hard not to know about Keith McNally’s restaurants and night spots. The Odeon’s neon sign shone out from the cover of that ‘80s time capsule “Bright Lights, Big City,” fer Chrissake.

Working as a drone at magazines like Spy, Andy Warhol’s Interview and The New Yorker — where McInern