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A New York City restaurant owner got an apology from CBS late-night host James Corden over allegedly “abusive” behavior at the famed Balthazar.

Keith McNally originally banned Corden from his restaurants Monday.

“James Corden is a hugely gifted comedian, but a tiny Cretin of a man. And the most abusive customer to my Balthazar servers since the restaurant opened 25 years ago,” he wrote. “I don’t often 86 a customer, to today I 86’d Corden. It did not make me laugh.”

 

 

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McNally cited incidents in June and on Oct. 9 where he claimed Corden verbally “abused” servers.

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