Pursuits

Restaurateur Keith McNally Returns Home With Balthazar London

Having conquered New York, Keith McNally returns home to recreate his iconic Balthazar in London
Photograph by Jeff Brown
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Walking into Keith McNally’s new restaurant, Balthazar London, may be the closest any human will ever get to being suddenly and miraculously transported in space and time. McNally, 61, who brought the Parisian bistro to America—augmenting the original, rendering it in supersaturated color—has reimported the idea back across the Atlantic, to a city that at the moment is keener on American food than French.

New York’s Balthazar opened in the spring of 1997