When have you seen a celebrity at a Dallas restaurant?

[Lawrence Halcomb]

Who did you see, when, and at what restaurant? This can be any
nationally known TV or movie personality.

[Mark Shaw]

Post by Lawrence Halcomb
Who did you see, when, and at what restaurant? This can be any
nationally known TV or movie personality.

Laura Dern. I don't remember the restaurant; it was in that
retail/restaurant area at Preston and Mockingbird.

[The busman]

Troy Aikman used to eat at Pizza Hut on 183 in Irving. This was during his
rookie season. Always very nice. Also got to deliver to Terry Bradshaw's
place in Las Colinas before he moved on occasion.
Andy

Post by Mark Shaw

Post by Lawrence Halcomb
Who did you see, when, and at what restaurant? This can be any
nationally known TV or movie personality.

Laura Dern. I don't remember the restaurant; it was in that
retail/restaurant area at Preston and Mockingbird.
--
Mark Shaw Practicing Eccentric
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Do gynoids dream of divorce settlements?

[Dick Keats]

Post by Lawrence Halcomb
Who did you see, when, and at what restaurant? This can be any
nationally known TV or movie personality.

Linda Gray of "Dallas" at Ewald's on Lovers Lane at Inwood (more than 25
years ago).
Dick

[Mark Shaw]

Post by Lawrence Halcomb
Who did you see, when, and at what restaurant? This can be any
nationally known TV or movie personality.

Oh, I forgot: I've seen both Jack Kilby and Ross Perot at
the Dixie House on Forest Lane between Hillcrest and Coit.
I think it's a Black Eyed Pea now. This would have been
the 1994-1996 era or so.

(Kilby wasn't a "celebrity" per se outside the engineering
community, I guess - he's the guy who invented the integrated
circuit.)

[Hank Mishkoff]

Post by Lawrence Halcomb
Who did you see, when, and at what restaurant? This can be any
nationally known TV or movie personality.

I ran into Emmit Smith at Houston's in Addison a few months ago, but
he lives about two blocks away, so that probably happens all the time.
I ran into Roger Staubach at that same restaurant maybe 15 years ago.
I was having dinner at a steakhouse in the Marriott Quorum in Addison
many years ago, and I noticed that Oral Roberts and his wife were at
the next table, does that count?

[Mark Shaw]

Post by Hank Mishkoff

Post by Lawrence Halcomb
Who did you see, when, and at what restaurant? This can be any
nationally known TV or movie personality.

I ran into Emmit Smith at Houston's in Addison a few months ago, but
he lives about two blocks away, so that probably happens all the time.

I ran into John Elway in the men's room (stop that) at a restaurant
in Denver I used to frequent for the jazz piano in the bar. He was
so drunk he could barely stand up.

This was back during his playing days; perhaps 1985.

[Jeff Edwards]

Post by Mark Shaw

Post by Hank Mishkoff

Post by Lawrence Halcomb
Who did you see, when, and at what restaurant? This can be any
nationally known TV or movie personality.

I ran into Emmit Smith at Houston's in Addison a few months ago, but
he lives about two blocks away, so that probably happens all the time.

I ran into John Elway in the men's room (stop that) at a restaurant
in Denver I used to frequent for the jazz piano in the bar. He was
so drunk he could barely stand up.
This was back during his playing days; perhaps 1985.

My recently-deceased uncle was bartender/bar manager at the Desert Inn in
Las Vegas for quite a few years and had quite a few celeb stories. One of
his favorites was Elway pulling the "Do you know who I am?" on an
especially crowded night. My uncle claimed his response was basically,
"Yes, and you'll wait your turn." He was prone to exaggeration, but he had
very little nice to say about Elway.

On the flip side, my sister met both Jerry Rice and Emmitt Smith at various
clinics they were doing where she was doing promotion work, and says they
were both very friendly.

Another one I forgot - I see Rusty Greer and Larry Brown regularly, and
both seem to be pretty normal guys with little-to-no pretense about them.
Granted, they are not quite on the same rung as Emmitt and Elway, but they
could still play big-timer if they wanted to.

-Jeff

[Lawrence Halcomb]

This reminds me of a Rafael Palmeiro story (Texas Ranger) that happened
somewhere. Seems Palmeiro was hitting on the girl who was desk clerk at
a motel he was checking into. He kept on asking her out and she kept
refusing. Finally he said, "Don't you know who I am? I'm Rafael Palmeiro
of the Texas Rangers!" To which the girl replied, "Sorry, I don't date
ball players."

[Jeff Edwards]

Post by Lawrence Halcomb
Who did you see, when, and at what restaurant? This can be any
nationally known TV or movie personality.

Mine are mostly sports:

Barry Switzer used to be partial owner of a restaurant in Addison on
Midway. At a work function there, I saw him and Ed "Too-Tall" Jones
enjoying themselves with some female companions at the bar. Cowboy
sightings were also quite common at the Cowboys Cafe up on Macarthur near
the team HQ, as well as at the Coppell Deli.

Also, during one Stars off-season when there were some very distant
rumblings they might be looking at him, I saw a guy I could swear was
Jeremy Roenick eating in Las Colinas. (Obviously, this was after Derian
Hatcher departed :)

Oh, yeah, and I saw Mark Cuban during his shameless self-promotion dishing
out Blizzards after he slandered the good name of Dairy Queen.

This is not a Dallas one, but we also were in New Orleans during the
filming of whichever Grisham novel adaptation was there and saw Dustin
Hoffman enjoying some dining on a balcony.


-Jeff

[Frater Mus]

Post by Jeff Edwards
Cowboy
sightings were also quite common at the Cowboys Cafe up on Macarthur near
the team HQ, as well as at the Coppell Deli.

I worked there as a barback (ie, lowest man on the totem pole) so I
spent many, many late nights cleaning up after the football groupies, the
drunken sports fans trying to steal the helmets, the coked up corporate
marketing chicks*, the sidewalk drug deals, and the players that treated
their wives poorly or quite well, depending.

Unfailingly nice to everyone:
Emmett. Kind, patient, generous with fans.

Nice to me, some co-workers didn't agree:
Leon Lett, although he got in my way behind the bar.

Dickheads that I wouldn't piss on if they were on fire:
Tony Dorsett (part owner of the cafe by that time, IIRC)
Michael Irvin
Jimmy Johnson


Later when I opened the La Mad in North Arlington, Troy would come
in from time to time (as would Jane McGarry, sp?) because no one would
bother them there.


*You do NOT want to spend your evenings cleaning up the bathrooms
after a herd of coked up marketing chicks camps out there half the
night.

[Lawrence Halcomb]

I've heard of Jimmy Johnson's temper-tantrums. In a small Northeast
Texas town, he kicked the leg of the dining table at a family home when
a young up-and-coming local football player wouldn't sign with him (this
was a few years before he became Coach for the Dallas Cowboys).

[SINNER]

Post by Lawrence Halcomb
Who did you see, when, and at what restaurant? This can be any
nationally known TV or movie personality.

Max Morgan used to stop into McCarty's (when it was still open) on
Friday/Saturday nights for a gin and tonic.

[Mark Shaw]

Post by SINNER
Max Morgan used to stop into McCarty's (when it was still open) on
Friday/Saturday nights for a gin and tonic.

Who?

[Jeff Edwards]

Post by SINNER
Max Morgan used to stop into McCarty's (when it was still open) on
Friday/Saturday nights for a gin and tonic.

Who?

Is that the sportscaster guy who used to be local and now does a national
show on Sundays?

-Jeff

[SINNER]

Post by SINNER
Max Morgan used to stop into McCarty's (when it was still open) on
Friday/Saturday nights for a gin and tonic.

Who?

Fox sportscaster. Black guy, bald, deep voice. Very nice guy.

[Gregory A Greenman]

Post by Lawrence Halcomb
Who did you see, when, and at what restaurant? This can be any
nationally known TV or movie personality.

I saw Tim Cowlishaw at Birra Poretti's at Park Lane and Central
Expressway a couple of times. (This post could also qualify for the
"What's Your Favorite restaurant that is no longer around?" thread
too.)

Of course, a large part of the reason that we were both there at
the same time was that we were in a rotisserie league together and
that's where we held our draft. The restaurant was pretty nice for
that purpose. We had a private room and we just had to agree that
everyone would buy an entree.

[Jeff Edwards]

Post by Gregory A Greenman

Post by Lawrence Halcomb
Who did you see, when, and at what restaurant? This can be any
nationally known TV or movie personality.

I saw Tim Cowlishaw at Birra Poretti's at Park Lane and Central
Expressway a couple of times. (This post could also qualify for the
"What's Your Favorite restaurant that is no longer around?" thread
too.)

I saw a Birra Poretti's the other day - I can't remember where. Apparently
it lives on, if not in the same locations.

Actually, it qualifies on the other thread recently started - memorable
restaurants, I remember the one in North Hills Mall (now a pile of rubble)
as the first restaurant I took a date to where I actually paid for the meal
out of my own pocket, circa 1986.

-Jeff

[Mark Shaw]

Hey, I forgot a couple - but in reverse: when I was a cook at
Houlihan's in Denver, I once made fried zucchini sticks for
Donna Fargo.

And when I was a bartender at Gasho of Japan (think "Benihana,"
same concept, owned by the Benihana guy's brother), I made a
drink (I forget what) for a guy who used to draw "The Flint-
stones" for Hanna-Barbera. Got a drawing from him, too. It's
in a box somewhere.