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The locale also appears in the The Godfather (novel) and its sources there might be a bit different than the ones in the game.

"It's perfect for us, Pete. A small family place, good food, tasty spaghetti. Everyone minds their own business. Perfect. They've got an old-fashioned toilet as well, you know, the box and the chain... thing. We might be able to tape the gun behind it."
―Salvatore Tessio[src]

Louis' Restaurant was a neutral restaurant located in The Bronx, New York (Midtown Manhattan in game). It was owned by the Bocchicchio clan, though it also had ties to the Barzini crime family The restaurant was a popular place for sit-downs due to its relative neutrality.

Michael Corleone held conference here with Virgil Sollozzo and Captain McCluskey in early 1946. Michael asked to be excused in order to go to the lavatory as he had to pee, but there he picked up a small untraceable Snub Nose gun that was placed there earlier by either one of Peter Clemenza's men or Aldo Trapani. Upon his return, Michael shot Sollozzo and McCluskey, dropped the gun and made a slow escape to Sicily to avoid the impending Five Families War which he caused out of pure spite.

Video game[]

In the The Godfather: The Game, the restaurant is once again owned by Louis Bocchicchio and is located in Midtown. Aldo Trapani plants the gun in the lavatory before the meeting between Michael, McCluskey and Sollozzo. Either before or after Michael takes a piss and kills Sollozzo and McCluskey, Aldo Trapani takes control of the restaurant after spooking away the lone Barzini soldato who defended the joint.

History[]

This is a Barzini-owned eatery, but it's seen in many Mafioso circles as a safe enough establishment for a sit-down meetings, thanks to a heavy police presence (the police station is just up the street) and Basillio clan's neutrality. An assassin nicknamed "The Turk" is said to favor this place, along with a crooked police captain named McCluskey.

Behind the scenes[]

  • Louis Restaurant was in reality filmed at the Old Luna Restaurant on White Plains Road near Gun Hill Road in The Bronx.[1]
  • In original The Godfather novel the restaurant is named the Luna Azure, assuming they are one and the same place.
  • In The Godfather: The Game the restaurant has the same layout as Hawk's Steakhouse and Arnold's Famous 47, although the tables, flooring and wallpapers are different.
  • It is almost impossible to get the maximum protection money from Louis at this place due to a very small number of innocents. The only way to get it is to throw random pedestrians on the street into the bistro and beat the hell outta them, making Louis comply.

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Notes and references[]

  1. Jones, Jenny M. (2007). The Annotated Godfather. Black Dog & Leventhal, p. 124. ISBN 1579128114.

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