keith mcnally opened his first restaurant in two and a half years.ng his luck further downtown in the beekman hotel in the financial district. he welcomed the bloomberg cameras in for a private tour of his new restaurant called augustine. >> welcome to augustine. arrives and gets transported, that is what you want. everything costs a fortune with me so i'm the worst person to invest in a restaurant, and i thought it might be nice to be in this neighborhood. i had never come down to the financial area so i am hoping there are others like me that might take the chance and come down and find something. we have only just finished the bar, we have finished the bar and everyone will tell you that we were unhappy with it. we redid it. the mayor was very old. it took two years until we got the tiles we liked. we built the clock. we found one like it and did not like it so we ended up building one similar. the chandelier took about 18 months to build properly. i suppose a criticism of me would probably be, and probably will be that a lot of my places are simi