Message: | Similar if not quite as good food at the Daily Grills for less cost.
The "scene" can be interesting at Kate Mantilini and, of course they are open quite late which is something of a novelty in or near Beverly Hills where 9:30 means "lights out" for many.
If you are going to a screening at the Academy, Kate Mantalini is perfect. Either before or after; park once and walk to the screening.
By the way, we have often ordered from the late-night menu and never been denied; not so much as a "look" from the server. A factor may be that, often, we come in without reservations and sit at the Counter.
Owners are the family that years ago owned the Hamgurger Hamlet chain, the Lewises. Shortly before selling the Hamlets to a national chain (that bankrupted it) they opened what is now The Gardens on Glendon in Westwood as a "high-end" restaurant. They still own that (it, too, IMHO is way overpriced for what they deliver). With the decline of Westwood as a "destination" it is remarkable that they survived at all as a white-table-cloth-type restaurant. Kate Mantalini was to expand on that business model and provide a later-night possibility near to B. Hills for friends and business associates in B Hills which is home to the Lewises. Early on it drew attention for its architecture/design in what was once a Wells Fargo Bank branch. |