Mara Gibbs is an independent film, television and theater producer based in New York City and Los Angeles. She is also a published food and travel writer, most recently the co-author of "Everybody Eats There" about the world's 100 most legendary restaurants. Fluent in Spanish, French and Italian, she has eaten in Michelin-starred restaurants all over the world and worked in her family's famous eateries, Mortons and Hard Rock Cafes as well as helping to launch LA's first real Tuscan Italian restaurant Il Giardino.

Blog Entries by Mara Gibbs

Everybody Eats Where? Le Caprice

Posted December 7, 2009 | 05:36 PM (EST)


The reservation is hard to get, but that is because the people behind NY's elegant outpost of the London restaurant Le Caprice at the newly renovated Pierre Hotel know how to properly run a restaurant. They decided to limit the reservations for the first three months so they could get...

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Everybody Eats Where? In Los Angeles and Beyond

4 Comments | Posted December 4, 2009 | 09:32 AM (EST)


I am a California girl living in both New York City and Los Angeles. I moved to NY after attending a six week course for restaurateurs at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY. Every weekend I would travel down to the city where I would explore the...

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Everybody Eats Where? At Home, at Work, On the Street?

Posted November 13, 2009 | 01:02 PM (EST)


I am not into scare tactics, but I will say this, for someone who loves to dine out in restaurants, pick up and eat soft pretzels from the vendors scattered around NY, buy fruits and vegetables from grocery stores, I am constantly putting my stomach and even my life into...

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Everybody Eats Where? Harry Cipriani

Posted November 11, 2009 | 10:30 AM (EST)


One of the first restaurateurs that I met in NYC when I moved here from Los Angeles was Giuseppe Cipriani, and his father Arrigo. I went to Harry Cipriani, the New York outpost of their legendary Harry's Bar in Venice, Italy, for a lunch with some friends from Los Angeles...

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Everybody Eats Where? Swifty's and the Fete de Swifty's

2 Comments | Posted November 5, 2009 | 10:44 AM (EST)


I know that my first blog was on the long side, so I will try to make this one short and tasty.
If you would like more information on me, check out my first blog post from October 27th.

Within the first week of my arrival back in...

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Everybody Eats Where?

1 Comments | Posted October 27, 2009 | 03:20 PM (EST)


I grew up in a family obsessed with food and restaurants; at the same time, we are all extremely health conscious. Kind of an oxymoron for foodies. Nonetheless, whenever anyone travels to New York or abroad, they call me to find out where everybody eats.

I am a...

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