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• Stadiem, William and Gibbs, Mara

Your best friend just returned from a week in a world capital. Your first question is Where did you eat? In New York, you’re hoping it was La Grenouille or Da Silvano, the Four Seasons or Balthazar. In L.A., Toscana, Spago, the Ivy, or Mr. Chow. In London, the River Café or Gordon Ramsay; in Paris, Arpege or Chez l'Ami Louis. Because at all these places, the mayor is in one corner, the richest man in town another, and the middle is filled with actors and actresses, dukes and princesses, senators and presidents . . . it's where everybody eats. Here's a tour of 100 of these restaurants—of their back stories and back rooms, of their menus and off-the-menu specialties, of their clientele and chefs. Of what it's like to be there. Of how it got that way. And why. Part travelogue, part social commentary, part business manual, and part history of dining, Everybody Eats There is a witty, insightful, meticulously researched 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 along the Wall of Fame at Spago.