Checkers Downtown Restaurant features California fusion cuisine with a French and Asian influence. Executive Chef Tony Hodges is known in culinary circles for creating innovative dishes. Hilton Checkers Los Angeles is a historic 12-story hotel that dates back to the 1920s and is located at 535 S. Grand Avenue. Checkers Hotel Executive Chef Tony Hodges puts the finishing touches on a luncheon entre´e in the kitchen. Several shelves behind Chef Hodges display plates of different sizes; a clock on the wall shows the time as 11:52; on the counter where he is working, a cluster of utensils, a wine glass, a cocktail glass, and a shrimp cocktail cup all can be seen. Photograph dated April 2000.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 31 cm. on sheet 28 x 36 cm. Photographic prints
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