Steve Restivo's restaurant, Vitello's, was where Robert Blake and Bonny Lee Bakley had dinner before she was shot in 2001. Restivo died Nov. 5 at 81.
and Roman Polansky’s house on Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon, the site of the first Manson family murders.
“I’d rather that someone would come in here because they heard from a friend it was a good place to eat,” Restivo told The Times shortly after the shooting. “And that my friend’s wife is still alive, and he was in no trouble.” Restivo and his brother were born in Sicily and landed in Chicago as children. Handy in the kitchen and armed with family recipes such as what would become Ravioli al Vitello with cream sauce, the two opened a restaurant on the city’s South Side before heading west. The brothers bought the Studio City restaurant in the early 1970s and marveled at the celebrity customers who wandered in., the late Hollywood director and screenwriter.
When police arrived, Blake told officers he had left his wife in the car while he hiked back to the restaurant to look for his handgun, a Smith & Wesson revolver, that had slipped from his waistband during dinner. When he returned to the car, he told police, Bakley had been shot. The murder weapon, a Walther P38 9-millimeter pistol, was later found in a nearby dumpster.
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