The bad blood between restaurateur Keith McNally and former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter is still boiling over — at least on McNally’s side.
McNally posted a recent conversation he had with Town & Country style features director Erik Maza to his infamous Instagram feed Wednesday, and from the looks of it, his feud with Carter is far from over.
McNally said his correspondence with Maza happened Tuesday when Maza reached out to say, “Town & Country mag. is putting together our annual gift guide, and we’re asking a bunch of folks that we love a simple question: what do YOU want for the holidays?”
When McNally fired back, “Graydon Carter’s head on a platter,” Maza levelheadedly responded — according to the Instagram post — that T&C “might just print it. But I think there’s some kind of rule against editor on editor crime. Wanna sleep on it.”
In response to the concern expressed by Maza, who was perhaps expecting an answer more along the lines of “scented candles” or “cashmere socks,” McNally wrote, “If you have think about it, don’t f–king print it.”
That’s when McNally got testy and posted the whole exchange on social media.
Page Six has reached out to Carter’s rep for comment.
Maza, for his part, told us: “Keith was a good sport for playing along with our game. I just hope I can still get my favorite martini in town at Balthazar. As for whether we’ll run the quote, watch out for our December issue!”
In May, McNally ripped Carter as a “fancy F–ker” — and banned the journalist from all of his eateries — after Carter allegedly failed to show up for a 1 p.m. reservation for 12 people at McNally’s restaurant Morandi.
“That fancy F–ker will never be allowed to make a reservation at one of my restaurants again. Never,” McNally fumed on Instagram.
Carter — who has been behind the restaurants The Waverly Inn and Monkey Bar — said in a statement to Page Six at the time, “My office did forget to cancel the lunch reservation until a bit after 1:30, which is wretched, and we will be making a donation today to the restaurant’s tip pool to cover what the staff would have made. … As a fellow restaurateur, I fully understand the implications of a large party no-show.”
But Carter also alleged that the contentious situation stemmed from a piece on McNally in his online publication, Air Mail, titled, “Keith McNally Goes Off the Menu: Why are his eyebrow-raising posts shaking up Instagram?”
“As for the rest of McNally’s deranged rant, it is pure fiction,” Carter alleged of McNally’s claims that “Carter had done this very same thing before” with reservations at his Minetta Tavern and Balthazar.
McNally’s Instagram feed has become something of a food world firestorm.
Via the social media platform, he previously seemed to come to the aid of Ghislaine Maxwell, commented that a 25-year-old fashion buyer he’d never met “looked like a hooker” and praised controversial director Woody Allen and wife Soon-Yi Previn for appearing at Balthazar.