“Aren’t people going to get so bored with hearing about me?,” George McNally asks. The 22-year-old British American is preparing to open his first restaurant, Faux, in Tribeca later this summer. George is the son of Keith McNally, the restaurant mogul behind Balthazar, Pastis, and Minetta Tavern, and his debut has been the subject of speculation since rumors began circulating in December. With this wave of excitement come articles, and with articles come personal questions, many of which George would rather dodge.
“I haven’t broken it down. I haven’t seen any therapist,” he says of his feelings about the past. “I try really hard to avoid having to contemplate things too much.” He possesses, I get the sense, some of the same intensity as his father—the kind you find in people who spend their days and nights in kitchens, cooking, shaking, running, and drinking.
