Everybody Eats There

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. Arpe ge - 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 don' t 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 cha teau 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.Stadiem, William is the author of 'Everybody Eats There ', published 2007 under ISBN 9781579653224 and ISBN 1579653227.