Lawry’s the Prime Rib celebrated the 70th anniversary of the opening of their first restaurant with a special dinner in Chicago this past Wednesday.  The original restaurant was opened by Lawrence (“Lawry”) L. Frank and Walter Van de Kamp in 1938 in Beverly Hills.  The second Lawry’s opened in Chicago in 1974.  You can read about the evening in a story by Philip Potempa for The Times of Northwest Indiana.

Michael Stern, in his Roadfood.com review of Lawry’s the Prime Rib, says “there are six Lawry's prime rib palaces around the world; and if big slabs of tender, juice-dripping beef are your dish, these should be your destination.”