In The Godfather, which restaurant does Michael Corleone enter before killing Sollozzo and McCluskey?

In The Godfather, Michael enters Louis’ Italian-American Restaurant before killing Sollozzo and McCluskey.

The restaurant scene is one of the film’s decisive turning points. Michael is taken to the Bronx restaurant to meet Virgil Sollozzo and Captain Mark McCluskey, who is protecting Sollozzo. Before the meeting, Sonny’s allies conceal a handgun behind a toilet tank in the restaurant bathroom.

Michael retrieves the weapon, returns to the table, and shoots both men. The act changes him from the Corleone son who wants no part in the family business into a fugitive and eventual successor. The location is therefore important not merely as a setting but as the scene of Michael’s moral and political transformation.

The restaurant is fictional within the story, despite the film presenting the sequence with realistic New York detail.