Lawry's The Prime Rib
Beverly Hills, CA 91101
Phone: (424) 354-3409
- Price:
- $$$$
- Cross Street:
- Wilshire Boulevard
- Specialties:
- Steak
- Best of Citysearch:
- Special Occasion Dining 2004
- Hours:
- Mon-Fri 5pm-10pm, Sat 4:30pm-11pm, Sun 4pm-9:30pm
Message from Lawry's The Prime Rib
Enjoy the world's best prime rib, carved tableside from silver carts
- USDA certified prime beef
- Fresh fish and lobster tails
- Elegant private rooms
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Editorial Review for Lawry's The Prime Rib – by Jane Tunks
The Scene
Back in its original location after a decades-long stint across the street, Lawry's look is still familiar--a vast dining room decked with aristocratic paintings and waitresses in prim brown dresses and starched white collars and caps. A perfect venue for tourists and Midwestern transplants to worship at the altar of American beef.
The Food
Huge slabs of prime rib take center stage at this old-school restaurant. High priests of beef from the Royal Order of Carvers, festooned with gold medallions, carve your cut to order from a futuristic stainless steel cart. The beef here is juicy and flavorful. Splash out on the Diamond Jim Brady cut, an extra-thick, 16-ounce hunk of meat, including a rib bone. Dinners come with fluffy mashed potatoes, baked-to-order Yorkshire pudding and whipped cream horseradish.
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Insider Tips
Know Before You GoIf you order the Diamond Jim Brady cut, the busboy will bag the rib bone so you can take it home to Fido.
When to GoOnly half the tables are reserved, so diners can come in on the spur of the moment.
The ExtrasCatch the spinning salad trick--the waitresses lift a silver sauce boat overhead and pour Lawry's famous orange dressing straight into a salad bowl spinning on a crock of ice.
User Reviews for Lawry's The Prime Rib
09/20/2008 Posted by MCfromPhilly
I went to Lawry's with my boyfriend for our anniversary for the first time. When we stepped into Lawry's the decor seemed lovely- lots of chandeliers, more sophisticated, with tons of presentation at the entry. Our server introduced herself as "Ms. Something-or-other" (I'm choosing to omit her name), which struck us as a bit odd, but it was clearly Lawry's policy. Our server was a distracting and odd combination of cold and hospitable- everything she conversed with us was evidently recited from memory and "perfect"- almost like she had been trained to say certain things, and the experience was uncomfortably robotic. Everything was overly-presented- from height pouring on salad dressing on a spinning salad (makes no effect on the taste) to the formality the servers are clearly told to act with. On top of all this, on the Monday night we went, we literally heard "Happy Birthday" being sung every 3-4 minutes, I almost felt like they just do it at every table for desert! =) When our actual meals arrived, the meat was carved in front of us on a large rolling cart, and after an average salad, we assumed that the main course was going to make us forgive the salad- afterall, this is a steak house. With the level of presentation you really feel like it MUST be good, whether or not your mouth thinks so- but the steak was among the more average of steaks we had both had. It didn't register as bad, it didn't register as amazing- just an alright steak. Dissapointing considering the reputation- if I had had this steak at IHOP, I would have just thought "wow, IHOP has pretty good steak for 8.99". We decided to order strawberries and chocolate for dessert, and most of the strawberries were overly ripe (verrrry mushy- eew) I really wanted to like Lawry's- but it just glowed with being overly self-special with all the "this is how we do things", and our service would have been perfect if she was not afraid to loosen up and "be there" rather than phoning in personal warmth.
09/05/2008 Posted by MaryCC
My husband and I pass by this place all the time. So many restaurants in that area to choose from. We finally tried Lawry's. Nice place with a friendly staff. We felt so young. Most folks who dine here are 50+. We were sat at a nice booth, and our server took good care of us. Most of their service staff are also older then the usual young attitudes that serve in the area. We think that's a good thing. The only complaint I have is the cooking temp on my husband's prime rib. He likes it rare. A carver comes to the table, and cuts right in front of you. His cut was not rare. Instead of complaining, he ate most of it. Nothing special about this place that has been around for something like 70 years. Their $99 dinner for two seemd like a good idea when you compare the regular menu prices to what you get for that fixed price.
Pros: Service, valet
Cons: cooking temps
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