CREDITS RESERVOIR DOGS , 1992 dir: Quentin Tarantino Harvey Keitel Michael Madsen Tim Roth Steve Buscemi Lawrence Tierney

“If you wanna know something and he won't tell you, cut off one of his fingers. The little one. Then tell him his thumb's next. After that he'll tell you if he wears ladies underwear.”

It seems unbelievable that the Reservoir Dogs warehouse was torn down, but I guess no one realised the significance at the time. Just imagine the tourist bucks, $5 entrance, Stealers Wheel CDs, souvenir rubber ears.... missed opportunity or what?

Well you can still worship at the site (it was a flattened lot when I visited) or check out the alleyways of the bloody shootout after the robbery, but best of all is breakfast at Pat and Lorraine's, 4720 Eagle Rock Boulevard, Eagle Rock, northeast of downtown LA, which is where the Dogs gather to discuss Madonna lyrics and the ethics of tipping.

The robbery of ‘Karina’s’ (named after Jean-Luc Godard’s muse, and one-time wife, Anna Karina) filmed a little to the east in the Highland Park district. More movie references abound – Mr Blue is “Dead as Dillinger” and Laurence Tierney (gangleader Joe Cabot) played Dillinger in 1945 for Monogram Pictures, the company to whom Jean-Luc Godard dedicated A Bout de Souffle.

Reservoir Dogs location: Mr Orange gets the bloody wound: Marmion Way, Highland Park

Mr Brown (Tarantino himself) gets shot, while Mr White kills the cops, in the alleyway between 55th and 56th Avenues here. Mr Orange (Tim Roth) receives his bloody gunshot wound by 5518 Marmion Way, near Avenue 56. Mr Pink (Steve Buscemi) shoots his way out and heads down Figueroa Street (play Spot-the-camera crew in the shop windows in this scene), south of, and parallel to, Marmion Way. He gets hit by a car at the corner of York Boulevard and 57th Avenue, commandeers the motor and makes off on 57th.

Reservoir Dogs location: Mr Orange meets up with his superior: Johnie's, Wilshire Boulevard

The café, where Mr Orange meets up with his superior, is Johnie’s Coffee Shop, 6101 Wilshire Boulevard at Fairfax Avenue (a familiar location – it’s where Anthony Edwards receives news of impending apocalypse in Miracle Mile and Eds Norton and Furlong stop off in American History X.

Reservoir Dogs location: Mr Orange meets up with his superior: Johnie's, Wilshire Boulevard (now closed)

The graffiti-covered walls, where Orange rehearses his druggy cover story, can be seen at the junction of Beverly Boulevard and Second Street and Toluca Street, just northwest of downtown (take care around here if you’re visiting – Beverly Hills, it ain’t!).

Reservoir Dogs location: Mr Orange rehearses: Beverly Boulevard at Second Street (exercise caution around here)

He retails the story to the other Dogs in The Lodge, 4923 Lankershim Boulevard (tel: 818.769.7722) between Vineland and Magnolia, which is in reality a North Hollywood gay bar, and flashbacks to the toilets of the Park Plaza Hotel, 607 South Park View Street, midtown LA.

Reservoir Dogs location: Mr Orange tells his drug story: The Lodge, lankershim Boulevard, North Hollywood

“The hotel has been featured many times in films,” claimed Tarantino, “but I’m the only director that has used only its bathroom.”. Maybe, but it’s a close thing. The Park Plaza supplied the men’s room at ‘Capitol Pictures’ for the Coens’ Barton Fink, but it was also used for the USO dance scene One of the most popular locations in LA, the Park Plaza has been given a major makeover. See Steven Spielberg's Hook for more details.

Reservoir Dogs location: site of the Dogs' warehouse: Figueroa street at 59th Avenue, Highland Park

The Dogs’ warehouse has sadly been demolished, but you’re sure to recognise the (currently empty) site at Figueroa Street and 59th Avenue in Highland Park. Fittingly, it was a former mortuary, and was also used for Mr Orange’s scuzzy hotel room.