diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/LaTeX/Table.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/LaTeX/Table.hs
index 2ea9caf58..7833da081 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/LaTeX/Table.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/LaTeX/Table.hs
@@ -134,6 +134,11 @@ parseTableRow :: PandocMonad m
               -> LP m Row
 parseTableRow blocks inline envname prefsufs = do
   notFollowedBy (spaces *> end_ envname)
+  -- contexts that can contain & that is not colsep:
+  let canContainAmp (Tok _ (CtrlSeq "begin") _) = True
+      canContainAmp (Tok _ (CtrlSeq "verb") _)  = True
+      canContainAmp (Tok _ (CtrlSeq "Verb") _)  = True
+      canContainAmp _       = False
   -- add prefixes and suffixes in token stream:
   let celltoks (pref, suff) = do
         prefpos <- getPosition
@@ -142,7 +147,7 @@ parseTableRow blocks inline envname prefsufs = do
                      ((lookAhead (controlSeq "parbox") >>
                        void blocks) -- #5711
                       <|>
-                      (lookAhead (controlSeq "begin") >> void inline)
+                      (lookAhead (satisfyTok canContainAmp) >> void inline)
                       <|>
                       (lookAhead (symbol '$') >> void inline))
                   <|>
diff --git a/test/command/7129.md b/test/command/7129.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fef4ca2c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/command/7129.md
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+```
+% pandoc -f latex -t native
+\begin{tabular}{ll} \hline
+  FOO & BAR         \\ \hline
+  foo & \verb|b&r|  \\ \hline
+\end{tabular}
+^D
+[Table ("",[],[]) (Caption Nothing
+ [])
+ [(AlignLeft,ColWidthDefault)
+ ,(AlignLeft,ColWidthDefault)]
+ (TableHead ("",[],[])
+ [Row ("",[],[])
+  [Cell ("",[],[]) AlignDefault (RowSpan 1) (ColSpan 1)
+   [Plain [Str "FOO"]]
+  ,Cell ("",[],[]) AlignDefault (RowSpan 1) (ColSpan 1)
+   [Plain [Str "BAR"]]]])
+ [(TableBody ("",[],[]) (RowHeadColumns 0)
+  []
+  [Row ("",[],[])
+   [Cell ("",[],[]) AlignDefault (RowSpan 1) (ColSpan 1)
+    [Plain [Str "foo"]]
+   ,Cell ("",[],[]) AlignDefault (RowSpan 1) (ColSpan 1)
+    [Plain [Code ("",[],[]) "b&r"]]]])]
+ (TableFoot ("",[],[])
+ [])]
+```