Synopses & Reviews
If you love restaurants and you love to travel, this book will be your bible! From the private tatami rooms at Ten-Ichi in Tokyo to the sidewalk tables at Da Silvano in New York City, EVERYBODY EATS THERE: Inside the World's Legendary Restaurants by William Stadiem and Mara Gibbs is the ultimate tour of the liveliest, most beautiful, most delicious, most glamorous, most exclusive 100 restaurants on earth-and how they got that way.
Stadiem and Gibbs reveal the mystique and excitement of the world's most fabulous eateries that are packed with A-listers every night. Funny, acerbic, totally in-the-know, EVERYBODY EATS THERE is part travelogue, part social commentary to give readers the real inside dish. Dine topless with Pamela Anderson in St. Tropez, share roast suckling pig with Bill Clinton in Madrid, eat the best Italian food on earth in San Paolo, party with The Stones in Tokyo, join the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a Wild West saloon and get picked up by Warren Beatty in Los Angeles.
EVERYBODY EATS THERE weaves together lavish celebrity stories and incisive biographies of the famed chefs and restaurateurs with descriptions of the food that will whet appetites and jump-start plans for future dining excursions. Stadiem and Gibbs-with their discerning palates and social antennae-tell us what to eat, what to wear and how to behave once we make it in. Most guidebooks are about one city, or one country, and overload you with bad choices. EVERYBODY EATS THERE looks at restaurants as one global food club. And we're invited to join in.
The result-an engrossing read on the history of modern dining. Read how:
- Al Capone embraces JOE'S STONE CRAB in Miami as his favorite dining spot
- Henri Soule jumps ship after the 1939 World's Fair and invents Manhattan snob French cuisine at LE PAVILION
- Ernest Hemingway turns readers into foodies by mythologizing CASA BOTIN in Madrid and HARRY'S BAR in Venice
- Hairdresser Michael Chow opens the first MR CHOW in London during the swinging sixties. It was architecturally famous for its firehouse staircase for looking up miniskirts
- DAVE in Paris pushes the envelope of snob appeal by serving take-out level Chinese fare to the world's chic-est crowd
- Princess Diana anoints SAN LORENZO as London's royal trattoria
- Alice Waters builds a special bathroom for future presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton at CHEZ PANISSE
And much, much more!
The dream tour, EVERYBODY EATS THERE reveals the juiciest details from the backstories to the back rooms, from what's on the menus to what's even better off, from the glamorous (and sometimes scandalous) clientele to the high-powered chefs. And now, we can be a part of this international delight of food, fun and fame!
Synopsis
Your best friend just returned from a week in Paris. Your first question is "Where did you eat?" Arpége? Ami Louis? Stresa? But what you really want to know is "Was anyone famous there?" This book is for you.
What about New York? What happened at La Grenouille, Da Silvano?, the Four Seasons, Balthazar? In LA, Toscana, Dan Tana's, the Ivy, Mr. Chow? In London, the River Cafe, Gordon Ramsay, the other Ivy? Because at all these places, the President may be in one corner, the reigning tycoon in another, and the middle is filled with actors and actresses, models and rock stars, princes and princesses, senators and scoundrels...it's where everybody eats.
Here's an insider's tour of 100 of the world's most fabulous, most delicious, and most exclusive restaurants—of their back stories and back rooms, of their menus and off-the-menu specialties, of their clientele and chefs, and of what it's like to be there: sometimes intimidating, usually mouthwatering, always entertaining. Here's also an eye-opening social history of their fascinating rises to power, of their risky decisions and tipping-point moments, of food-world brand-building and gossip-column infighting. From the industry canteens of Beverly Hills to the power rooms in Midtown Manhattan, from the fashion shows in Paris and the royalty shows in London to the skin shows in St. Tropez and the gun shows in Moscow, from Tokyo's staggeringly delicious Italian restaurants, Everybody Eats There is the ultimate food trip.
Part travelogue, part social commentary, part business manual, and part history of dining, this is a witty, insightful, meticulously researched, and utterly delectable romp through the most celebrity-packed restaurants in the world. Plus, what to order (and what not to wear) if you ever find yourself seated on the Wall of Fame at Spago, the Line at Elaine's, or the Notre Dame perch at La Tour d'Argent.
Synopsis
Your best friend just returned from a week in Paris. Your first question is "Where did you eat?" Arpège? Ami Louis? Stresa? But what you really want to know is "Was anyone famous there?" This book is for you.
What about New York? What happened at La Grenouille, Da Silvano, the Four Seasons, Balthazar? In LA, Toscana, Dan Tana's, the Ivy, Mr Chow? In London, the River Cafe, Gordon Ramsay, the other Ivy? Because at all these places, the President may be in one corner, the reigning tycoon in another, and the middle is filled with actors and actresses, models and rock stars, princes and princesses, senators and scoundrels . . . it's where everybody eats.
Here's an insider's tour of 100 of the world's most fabulous, most delicious, and most exclusive restaurants—of their back stories and back rooms, of their menus and off-the-menu specialties, of their clientele and chefs, and of what it's like to be there: sometimes intimidating, usually mouthwatering, always entertaining. Here's also an eye-opening social history of their fascinating rises to power, of their risky decisions and tipping-point moments, of food-world brand-building and gossip-column infighting. From the industry canteens of Beverly Hills to the power rooms in Midtown Manhattan, from the fashion shows in Paris and the royalty shows in London to the skin shows in St. Tropez and the gun shows in Moscow, from Tokyo's staggeringly expensive French restaurants to São Paolo's staggeringly delicious Italian restaurants, Everybody Eats Thereis the ultimate food trip.
Part travelogue, part social commentary, part business manual, and part history of dining, this is a witty, insightful, meticulously researched, and utterly delectable romp through the most celebrity-packed restaurants in the world. Plus, what to order (and what not to wear) if you ever find yourself seated on the Wall of Fame at Spago, the Line at Elaine's, or the Notre Dame perch at La Tour d'Argent.
Synopsis
Full of movie stars, tycoons, statesmen, athletes, and supermodels, with sex, money, style, and glamour,
Everybody Eats There is a fun, delicious read.
Matsuhisa • Nobu began modestly, with a little sushi bar in LA, which happened to be across the street from the hospital where the Hollywood hotshots had heart surgery. And the collision of incredibly healthful food with incredibly rich people with heart problems spawned the biggest restaurant empire in the world.
Arpège • Paris chef Alain Passard on why he turned off meat and on to vegetables: "I couldn't keep having a creative relationship with a corpse."
Cipriani Downtown • Where Bellinis are served to the elite of Elite (the model agency) and the world's most famous dirty old men—Harvey Weinstein, Mick Jagger, Jack Nicholson.
Sweetings • You sit with London's financial elite—Hambros, Rothschilds, and Goldsmiths—at long wooden counters and eat grilled Dover sole, or deep-fried plaice, with chips. Forget green vegetables; real Englishmen dont touch 'em.
Mr Chow • More LA paparazzi are camped out here than at a Tom Cruise film premiere, and more leg is on display than in a Hanes panty hose commercial.
Elaine's • And so Plimpton brought in the young, struggling Gay Talese. And Talese brought in the young and less struggling Tom Wolfe. And in the course of ten years, Elaine's had become the most celebrity-packed restaurant in the world, all because Elaine had a fondness for writers, and let them float their bills.
Dan Tana's • Girls Who Kick Ass love this LA version of a New Jersey steak house. So did Phil Spector, who went here for a Caesar salad and two glasses of wine ($50 bill, $500 tip) before he took Lana Clarkson back to his château and allegedly shot her in the head.
Al Moro • At precisely one, a crowd of men in dark suits storm the doors. Is Al Moro being raided? No, but they are the authorities: Italian senators and ministers and other bigwigs from the nearby parliament, but they're only here to eat.
About the Author
William Stadiems books have sold millions of copies. They include the best-selling Marilyn Monroe Confidential, Dear Senator, Mr. S., and the novel Lullaby and Goodnight; his screenplays include an Emmy-nominated LA Law episode, Franco Zeffirellis Young Toscanini, and Garrison (which became Oliver Stones JFK). He has been a columnist for Interview, Movieline and Tatler and a restaurant critic for Buzz and Los Angeles Magazine and a correspondent for Food Arts. Originally from North Carolina, Stadiem now lives in Los Angeles.Mara Gibbs has produced theater, television and film, promoted concerts, scouted for models, and worked at her brother Peter Mortons Hard Rock Cafes and Mortons in London and Los Angeles. Fluent in Spanish, French, and Italian, she has eaten in Michelin-starred restaurants all over the world. She divides her time between Los Angeles and New York City where—on any given night—shes seated at the best tables in the best restaurants.
Table of Contents
Contents
Introduction vii
New York 1
London 59
Paris 95
The Continent 133
The Far East 203
The Americas 245
Los Angeles 287
Where Exactly Does
Everybody Eat? 343
Acknowledgments 347
Index 353