Food

Table-Hopping: Where the Boldface Names Are Eating

Star Jones eats high and low, and Teri Hatcher brunches on the waterfront.

In town to lobby on foster children, a suddenly slim Star Jones was spotted schlepping it at a downtown Cosi and glamming it up over foie gras at Oya…

Big Love's resident polygamist Bill Paxton is busy making the popped-collar rounds: he can't seem to stay away from Georgetown preppy dive Smith Point, and has also been spotted at Town Hall in Glover Park. He dined in higher style at Michel Richard's bistro Central…

Desperate Housewives star (and friend-of-Bush '41) Teri Hatcher brunched with her boyfriend and their daughters at Sequoia on the Georgetown waterfront…

Kathie Lee Gifford, in Shirlington for the opening of her musical Saving Aimee at the Signature Theatre, nibbled with former Charlie's Angel Cheryl Ladd at Extra Virgin…

…Designer Nicole Miller made the scene at fashion-loving Cafe Milano… 

…Green gals Sheryl Crow and Laurie David decompressed at Charlie Palmer Steak after an action-packed correspondents dinner weekend…

Helen Thomas did the girls night thing at Mama Ayesha's… 

…The Washington Post's Len Downie hung out al fresco at Morton's… 

Tim Russert cheered on the Boston College hockey team at Porter's Dining Saloon.  

Ann Limpert
Executive Food Editor/Critic

Ann Limpert joined Washingtonian in late 2003. She was previously an editorial assistant at Entertainment Weekly and a cook in New York restaurant kitchens, and she is a graduate of the Institute of Culinary Education. She lives in Petworth.