They spent the night Tuesday at the downtown Skirvin Hilton Hotel and dined at Nonna's Euro-American Ristorante and Bar in the Bricktown entertainment district, restaurant employees told The Oklahoman for a story on the paper's Web site.
The hotel's management would not confirm or deny hosting the two, but a restaurant chef talked about the dinner fixed for the couple.
"Let's see, I think we made him one of our regular salads with our fresh field greens that we grow at Cedar Spring Farms, our homegrown tomatoes and he wanted a slice of avocado on top and we put a hazelnut vinaigrette on top of that," said John Burruss, catering and banquet manager at Nonna's. "We have a signature tomato soup we make with those same tomatoes we grow. Then they had spinach quiche, which isn't on the menu but they requested."
The couple arrived at the eatery around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday and spent about two hours there. McCartney was dressed in a dark sharkskin suit and Shevell was wearing a modest, dark strap dress, the Oklahoman reported.
"They were staying at the Skirvin," Burruss said. "The Skirvin called, asked us what we could do for a vegetarian and we told them several different things, and they called back and said they wanted a quiche. At first we weren't going to do it. We had about 14 functions that day and I was standing around and I said, Well, I'll make a quiche. And then it turns out it was a good thing I did."
McCartney and Shevell began their journey from his holiday home in The Hamptons, N.Y. on July 31, picking up the old Route 66 in Illinois on a vacation trip that will take them to Santa Monica, Calif.
Burruss said the couple was allowed to dine without interruption from restaurant patrons.
"I was shocked about how fairly discreet the whole thing was," he said. "People did eventually ask, Now, is that Paul McCartney? And we were like, 'Oh, I'm not sure. Is it?'
"I mean, we didn't want to invade his privacy. But eventually I think people did start catching on to who he was."
Apparently Burruss' quiche was a hit.
"He said they'd come back on their way through again," Burruss said.
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.
