Chef Todd Claytor is now running things at the Westin Crown Center
There’s a new chef running things at the Westin Crown Center Hotel: Former executive sous chef Todd Claytor is currently acting as the Westin’s interim executive chef during this transitional period. The Westin’s corporate management — Starwood Hotels — will also be taking over the nearby Hyatt Regency Crown Center in December, changing that 31-year-old property into a Sheraton. It’s rumored that after the corporate change-over, the Westin Crown Center will replace the Hyatt in operating the Crown Center restaurants Milano and the Crayola Cafe.
Two months ago, chef Martin Hauser — profiled in Fat City last April — who was wearing two hats at the Westin Hotel as both executive chef and food and beverage director, officially checked out of the property and took a new job as the executive chef at the Marriott Country Club Plaza. That left a void at the Westin that is currently being filled by Claytor as interim executive chef and Jeff Charlton as interim food and beverage director.
