Restaurateur Who Banned James Corden Names 1 Other Rude Celebrity Client

Keith McNally wrote in his new memoir "I Regret Nothing" that the "incredibly rude" celebrity once reduced "a waitress to tears" for a minor inconvenience.

New York City restaurateur Keith McNally, who once banned former CBS talk show host James Corden from his Balthazar eatery for abusing the wait staff, is now accusing another celebrity of rudeness — beloved singer-songwriter and award-winning author Patti Smith.

In an excerpt published Thursday from his new memoir “I Regret Nothing,” McNally recalled Smith, her ex-boyfriend Robert Mapplethorpe and art curator Sam Wagstaff regularly eating at the One Fifth restaurant he managed in the 1970s — and Smith being rather abrasive.

“At the time, I found Wagstaff to be the most interesting of the three,” wrote McNally in an excerpt published in New York Magazine. “I still do today. On nights when Wagstaff wasn’t at the table, Smith and Mapplethorpe could be very difficult to wait on.”

“Smith, unfortunately, was incredibly rude to the servers,” he continued. “It’s impossible for me to listen to a Patti Smith song today without remembering her reducing a waitress to tears because she forgot to put bread on the table.”

Smith won the National Book Award in 2010 for her bestselling memoir “Just Kids,” which chronicled her bohemian life as a struggling artist and her relationship with Mapplethorpe — a now-celebrated photographer who died at 42 from complications with HIV in 1989.