{"id":259412,"date":"2022-10-19T17:03:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T17:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=259412"},"modified":"2022-10-19T17:30:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T17:30:44","slug":"new-york-restaurateurs-defend-james-corden-amid-balthazar-drama-absolutely-lovely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/new-york-restaurateurs-defend-james-corden-amid-balthazar-drama-absolutely-lovely","title":{"rendered":"New York restaurateurs defend James Corden amid Balthazar drama: &#8216;Absolutely lovely&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Restaurateurs have defended James Corden after Keith McNally, the owner of New York City restaurant Balthazar, announced his intention to ban the comedian over his alleged treatment of staff. Earlier this week, McNally accused the comedian of &#8220;abusive&#8221; behaviour on Instagram. A day later, the restaurateur and owner of the French brasserie claimed that Corden had apologised, prompting him to reveal on Instagram that &#8220;all is forgiven &#8220; and he reversed his decision. Amid the allegations from McNally, other famous New York City restaurateurs have stepped in to defend Corden, with Stratis Morfogen, the founder of Philippe Chow Restaurant Group and the owner of numerous esteemed restaurants, including Brooklyn Chop House, telling TMZ that the comedian is one of the most &#8220;pleasant and funny guys&#8221; he&#8217;s ever served. The restaurateur also revealed to the outlet that he can&#8217;t imagine Corden being mean. He referenced a 2018 post-Grammys event held at the Brooklyn Chop House, during which he said Corden sang<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restaurateurs have defended James Corden after Keith McNally, the owner of New York City restaurant Balthazar, announced his intention to ban the comedian over his alleged treatment of staff.Earlier this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drinks","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}