Kate Mantilini
Kate Mantilini was a restaurant in Beverly Hills, California, at 9101 Wilshire Boulevard at the corner of Doheny Drive, two blocks from the headquarters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Harry and Marilyn Lewis opened the restaurant in March 1987 after selling the Hamburger Hamlet restaurant chain for $33 million. It was described as a "late night hot spot" and as the "most consistently cool restaurant in Beverly Hills". Starting in 2010, sons David and Adam Lewis took over the management, with Adam serving as executive chef.
Marilyn Lewis wrote about the Lewis family's history in the restaurant business in a book titled ''Marilyn, Are You Sure You Can Cook?''
Patronage by people in the entertainment industry
Regular patrons included, reportedly, Mel Brooks, Ronald Reagan, Tony Curtis, and Sammy Davis Jr. According to Pete Hammond of Deadline Hollywood:"It was almost impossible to go in there and not run into someone you know. It was really a hopping place, both at lunch, dinner and late night. And it not only has been host to numerous premiere parties it was also prominently featured in the movie Heat with a key scene between stars Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, now memorialized on the walls of Kate's. I was even in there after the Oscars and a winner with his brand new shiny statuette came in passing up the Vanity Fair party in favor of a late night snack at Kate's.
According to Los Angeles magazine, a "representative" of Harry Lewis said that Marilyn Lewis had an uncle named Rob who was a "philanderer", and had a mistress named Kate Mantilini, after whom the Lewises named the restaurant.