Keith McNally is a restaurateur in New York City. The New York Times has referred to him as "The Restaurateur Who Invented Downtown."[1] McNally has been active in the New York City restaurant scene for 30 years. In that time, he has opened these restaurants: Odeon (in Tribeca), Cafe Luxembourg (Upper West Side), Lucky Strike, Nell's, Pravda (SoHo), Balthazar (SoHo), Pastis (Meatpacking District), Schiller's (Lower East Side), Morandi (West Village), Minetta Tavern (West Village), and Pulino's (Lower East Side).[2]
Sam Sifton, food critic for the New York Times awarded one star to Pulino's shortly after it opened in 2010. The chef at Pulino's is Tony Liu.[3] Sifton's predecessor, Frank Bruni, awarded three stars to Minetta Tavern in 2009.[4]
McNally was born into a working class family in England. His brother Brian McNally is also a restaurateur in New York.[5]