 The restaurant is known for continuing the cooking traditions of MacKenzie and her successor, Margaret Lupo, who owned the Tea Room from 1962 until 1994.The restaurant was mentioned in the "Designing Women" episode "The Women of Atlanta", wherein Julia (Dixie Carter) made mention of ""The Blue-haired ladies that play Bridge over at Mary Mac's Tea Room"" as a possible photographic subject for a magazine.Mary Mac's serves classic Southern cuisine.