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Staff
The staff of 1620 represents the finest wait, cook, and service staff in this region of the country. Each member of our professional team receives extensive training from our very own Chef Tim Morton.
The combination of these restaurant industry leaders ensures that your next dining experience here is your finest dining experience. We invite you to learn more about the leaders of 1620.
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Tim Morton & Evette Brady
Owner/Executive Chef Evette Brady and Chef Timothy Morton are here daily to ensure that your dining experience is exceptional, whether you dine in the main dining room or one of our private dining rooms.
Chef Brady received much of her practical training from her mother, Olivia Brady, who catered in and around Little Rock for nearly 50 years. Olivia started her daughter, Evette, on her way when she was still in Jr. High School. |
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After culinary school in Wisconsin, Evette went to work for the premiere restaurant in town, Jacques & Suzanne’s. While working there, she formed a strong working relationship and friendship with owners Ed Moore, and executive chef Paul Bash. It was this union that led to and cemented the foundation for what is Restaurant 1620.
Ed Moore and Paul Bash formed Continental Cuisine Inc., which included Allouette’s, 1620, Graffiti’s and Purple Cow.
As Executive Chef, Ms. Brady accepted the opportunity to acquire the restaurant in June of 1998. Shortly afterwards she called her nephew Timothy Morton back from Atlanta where he graduated culinary school with honors and had worked for many upscale restaurants before starting the Ultimate Event Catering Co. with Paul and Jerry Austin, and was voted best new caterers in 1998.
Chef Morton has run the restaurant with other members of the 1620 family of more than 10 years, including chefs Don Strickland, Adam Trentham, Courtney Llewellyn, Joseph Salgueiro, Manager/Private Dining Coordinator Robert Smith, Gerald Hanry in the main dining room, and until March of 2006, Chef Morton’s sister Amy Camille Daniels, who graciously lost her battle with lupus and kidney failure at the untimely age of 35.
Amy was a gigantic fixture at the restaurant from the very beginning who took care of everything and everyone. Along with these key people and a host of regular, loyal patrons, Restaurant 1620 cooks on to the tradition of great food, and unparallelled service.
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Don Allen Strickland Jr.
“I grew up in Oliva Brady's kitchen, where out of her home I watched and helped her prepare for catered functions. When I began to think that I too might like to cook for a living, I begged my mother to let me assist her as she made her “sock it to me cake”, which was the first of my culinary accomplishments. I later started making breakfast in bed for my parents at the age of around 9, and began to actually feel the joy of cooking. |
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My aunt Evette Brady gave me my first job shortly after this at restaurant 1620. Here, I peeled shrimp, and cleaned fruit until I was old and tall enough to be promoted to dishwasher.
Since I have been most comfortable in kitchens, I attended a culinary class during high school while I competed in state and national cooking competitions. I placed silver and gold at the state level and in the top 10 nationally (97-99). My formal culinary education was received from Johnson & Wales University (Norfolk,VA). After graduation I spent time in kitchens in Boston, MA before returning home to help alongside my aunt Evette & cousin Tim at the 1620 Restaurant which is now the face of our family.
Today I serve as the executive sous chef here at 1620, where I have had the privilege to serve many of Little Rock's finest patrons. Here at 1620, we don't believe that we are the best restaurant in town - we just try to act like it, changing the minds of patrons course by course.” |
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Stephan Harcrow, private dining room manager
Stephan Harcrow, a native of Warren Ar., started in the restaurant business moonlighting to help his ill father. From there he fell in love with the business. Formally a radio announcer, we like to think of him as Mr. Personality. He has a unique ability for making everyone feel like a C.E.O., a queen or a king. Stephan has managed several restaurants including Loca Luna before making a home ere at 1620. |
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