Summer 2005

Table Talk

Spotted! Maroon Five, Ice-T, Dwayne Johnson, Denzel Washington and more at Lawry’s restaurants.

Encore! Encore! The fried green beans appetizer are a guest favorite at the Tam O'Shanter.

The stars are always out in our restaurants!

At Lawry’s The Prime Rib, Beverly Hills, we recently welcomed Tom Arnold…The O.C. co-star Mischa Barton…Ed McMahon…alternative rock group Maroon 5…boy band creator Lou Perlman…recording artist Aaron Carter…L.A. Sparks center Lisa Leslie…the Philadelphia Eagles’ Matt Ware…actor/rapper Ice-T and his wife Coco…the Hilton family…Dwayne Johnson (“The Rock”)…Ray Bradbury…director John Landis…Chaka Khan…Nick Carter…Sidney Sheldon…Denzel Washington…Magic Johnson…and Mexican singing star Pablo Montero.

At Lawry’s in Chicago, we greeted the Chicago Tribune’s television critic Phil Rosenthal…and author and contributing editor for Esquire magazine Bill Zehme.

Drawn, no doubt, by our English-country-inn atmosphere, Baroness Caroline Cox, deputy speaker of the British House of Lords, joined us for dinner at the Five Crowns.

Spotted at the Tam O’Shanter Inn: Desperate Housewives co-star James Denton…The Bourne Supremacy’s Franka Potente…National Lampoon’s Dorm Daze star Patrick Renna…actor/comedian T.K. Carter…Ray co-star Curtis Armstrong…Fresh Prince of Bel Air co-stars James Avery and Joseph Marcell…the original Cindy Brady Susan Olsen…and Baywatch’s Nicole Eggert.