Hoodwinked: Restaurateur on Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Was a Mobster
Peter (Peter Pasta) Pellegrino, formerly of the Babylon, New York restaurant Peter’s Italian Restaurant, really is -- or was -- a gangster.
The once-promising Bonanno crime family member who appeared in Kitchen Nightmares now calls himself a brokester. And the Bonanno crime family, with which he was once affiliated has disowned him.
So has the rest of New York's Cosa Nostra, according to FBI documents and Peter Pasta himself.
But before all that he appeared on an episode of Kitchen Nightmares in which he acted very much like the mobster he allegedly was trying to become around the time of filming. (See Peter's Italian Restaurant menu here.)
Back then Peter Pasta was an up-and-coming Bonanno associate who "earned" $15 grand a week from bookmaking.
At the time, he also owned two boats that he'd park in a pricey nearby Babylon harbor called Great South Bay.
Gang Land News's Jerry Capeci broke the news about Peter Pasta's mob status, reporting:
Today, like the battered and bruised Bonanno crime family that once propped him up, Pellegrino, 45, is just another... unemployed grunt looking for a job. Worse, last year, not long after his once booming restaurant, Peter Pasta’s Café on Main Street in Babylon shuttered, his father died. Oh, and the rest of his blood family, the Pellegrinos, have disowned him. His mob family, the Bonannos, have falsely labeled him “a rat,” with all its obvious nasty ramifications and ugly possibilities hanging over his head.
Wait, it gets worse: Fox TV has been re-running the “Kitchen Nightmares” episode he did with bad-boy British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay in 2007 “that makes me look like a jerkoff and some kind of an animal, and worse,” moans Pellegrino. “It’s a real-life nightmare. It just ran again, on Friday or Saturday,” he said. ...
The son of a Genovese family bookmaker, Pellegrino ignored his father’s advice to stay away from “the life.” Instead of seeking a legitimate life, said Pellegrino, he gravitated to the rival Bonanno family and in the 1980s hooked up with then-capo Salvatore Vitale.
A March 3, 2003, FBI report obtained by Gang Land describes Peter Pasta as a “recently made member of the Bonanno family” under capo Jerome Asaro. But Pellegrino, who has never been arrested, as well as law enforcement officials, say that the longtime mob associate was never inducted into the crime family.
Gordon gives a pep talk. Peter is ready for action..... |
The once-promising Bonanno crime family member who appeared in Kitchen Nightmares now calls himself a brokester. And the Bonanno crime family, with which he was once affiliated has disowned him.
So has the rest of New York's Cosa Nostra, according to FBI documents and Peter Pasta himself.
Back then Peter Pasta was an up-and-coming Bonanno associate who "earned" $15 grand a week from bookmaking.
At the time, he also owned two boats that he'd park in a pricey nearby Babylon harbor called Great South Bay.
Gang Land News's Jerry Capeci broke the news about Peter Pasta's mob status, reporting:
Today, like the battered and bruised Bonanno crime family that once propped him up, Pellegrino, 45, is just another... unemployed grunt looking for a job. Worse, last year, not long after his once booming restaurant, Peter Pasta’s Café on Main Street in Babylon shuttered, his father died. Oh, and the rest of his blood family, the Pellegrinos, have disowned him. His mob family, the Bonannos, have falsely labeled him “a rat,” with all its obvious nasty ramifications and ugly possibilities hanging over his head.
Wait, it gets worse: Fox TV has been re-running the “Kitchen Nightmares” episode he did with bad-boy British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay in 2007 “that makes me look like a jerkoff and some kind of an animal, and worse,” moans Pellegrino. “It’s a real-life nightmare. It just ran again, on Friday or Saturday,” he said. ...
The son of a Genovese family bookmaker, Pellegrino ignored his father’s advice to stay away from “the life.” Instead of seeking a legitimate life, said Pellegrino, he gravitated to the rival Bonanno family and in the 1980s hooked up with then-capo Salvatore Vitale.
A March 3, 2003, FBI report obtained by Gang Land describes Peter Pasta as a “recently made member of the Bonanno family” under capo Jerome Asaro. But Pellegrino, who has never been arrested, as well as law enforcement officials, say that the longtime mob associate was never inducted into the crime family.
We first meet Peter Pasta (although that name is never spoken on the show) in Season One, episode eight, according to the BBC.
However, the episode marked the U.S. debut of Kitchen Nightmares.
As per the show's basic formula, super chef Gordon Ramsay visits a failing restaurant, orders lunch and/or dinner, picks the food apart, sniffing it, holding it up to his face to eyeball it closely. Occasionally, he will even taste the food, more often than not wearing a quizzical expression as if he hasn't the faintest idea what he is eating. (Ramsay is Scottish by birth, was raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, and initially aspired to be a professional footballer (or soccer player, as it is called in the US.)
As per the show's basic formula, super chef Gordon Ramsay visits a failing restaurant, orders lunch and/or dinner, picks the food apart, sniffing it, holding it up to his face to eyeball it closely. Occasionally, he will even taste the food, more often than not wearing a quizzical expression as if he hasn't the faintest idea what he is eating. (Ramsay is Scottish by birth, was raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, and initially aspired to be a professional footballer (or soccer player, as it is called in the US.)
After tasting some food, he's also been known to run into the men's room and retch. He doesn't eat as you or I would.
He'll march into the kitchen and degrade everyone following a particularly bad dining experience. All of them are bad, pretty much. (The restaurant, after all, is failing -- if the food was superb they wouldn't need Ramsay in the first place. This has always baffled me, how so many of the owners of the eateries who sought Ramsay to save their failing business simply are so deluded, they don't understand their food sucks.)
He'll march into the kitchen and degrade everyone following a particularly bad dining experience. All of them are bad, pretty much. (The restaurant, after all, is failing -- if the food was superb they wouldn't need Ramsay in the first place. This has always baffled me, how so many of the owners of the eateries who sought Ramsay to save their failing business simply are so deluded, they don't understand their food sucks.)
God help anyone who attempts to mount a defensive. Ramsay will capably cut them off at the knees. (Or kick them in the balls.)
He then proceeds to fix the restaurant of the week using various measures, including tightening up or simply executing a completely new menu. In the Peter's episode, for example, offering family-style dining was Ramsay's solution.
Ramsay will change a restaurant's entire concept; he will gut a restaurant or a staff member at the drop of a dime, seemingly relishing associated confrontations.
On one episode he gleefully watches an elderly lady-owner weep bitterly as various crappy decor tidbits and knick-knacks that once inhabited her garish eatery burned to cinders in the parking lot.
Ramsay had piled them up and set them afire. I believe he laughed as she cried.
Like a blond embodiment of the Thunder God Thor, wielding a ladle in place of a mallet, Ramsay pounds tables, abruptly closes a restaurant in mid-service when necessary, and almost always screams his throat raw and his fair skin pinkish.
Generally, Ramsay attempts to use obvious and usually effective methods to turn the failing restaurants around. He attempts to differentiate eateries sinking under competition's weight.
Filled with sarcasm and vitriol, Ramsay hammers the notion that fresh food is the only option (restaurateurs using any frozen fare are in serious trouble, and the trouble only grows exponentially if they don't 'fess up at once).
He will whip up a dish of anything at a moment's notice, more like a magician than a chef.
Ultimately Ramsay walks the blindfolded owners and staffers into a newly renovated restaurant (the makeover is done in one dramatic night), the footage capturing their delirious excitement. Many owners can be seen weeping -- usually with relief. Some even appear ready to drop to their knees and offer Ramsay their first-born child.
A few chef-owners even went on to commit suicide as well.
In episode two, at Dillons, we view the celebrated chef in truly rare form. A fellow Englishman working as the general manager initially sought to win over Ramsay with a smile and a wink. Ramsay immediately puts him on the defensive. ("Dillons is an Indian restaurant?" Ramsay asks the forever befuddled GM. "Doesn't sound like an Indian," Ramsay continues.)
He then proceeds to fix the restaurant of the week using various measures, including tightening up or simply executing a completely new menu. In the Peter's episode, for example, offering family-style dining was Ramsay's solution.
Ramsay will change a restaurant's entire concept; he will gut a restaurant or a staff member at the drop of a dime, seemingly relishing associated confrontations.
On one episode he gleefully watches an elderly lady-owner weep bitterly as various crappy decor tidbits and knick-knacks that once inhabited her garish eatery burned to cinders in the parking lot.
Ramsay had piled them up and set them afire. I believe he laughed as she cried.
Like a blond embodiment of the Thunder God Thor, wielding a ladle in place of a mallet, Ramsay pounds tables, abruptly closes a restaurant in mid-service when necessary, and almost always screams his throat raw and his fair skin pinkish.
Generally, Ramsay attempts to use obvious and usually effective methods to turn the failing restaurants around. He attempts to differentiate eateries sinking under competition's weight.
Filled with sarcasm and vitriol, Ramsay hammers the notion that fresh food is the only option (restaurateurs using any frozen fare are in serious trouble, and the trouble only grows exponentially if they don't 'fess up at once).
He will whip up a dish of anything at a moment's notice, more like a magician than a chef.
Ultimately Ramsay walks the blindfolded owners and staffers into a newly renovated restaurant (the makeover is done in one dramatic night), the footage capturing their delirious excitement. Many owners can be seen weeping -- usually with relief. Some even appear ready to drop to their knees and offer Ramsay their first-born child.
A few chef-owners even went on to commit suicide as well.
In episode two, at Dillons, we view the celebrated chef in truly rare form. A fellow Englishman working as the general manager initially sought to win over Ramsay with a smile and a wink. Ramsay immediately puts him on the defensive. ("Dillons is an Indian restaurant?" Ramsay asks the forever befuddled GM. "Doesn't sound like an Indian," Ramsay continues.)
The GM would be unemployed by show's end.)
The best part is when Ramsay investigates the kitchen, only to discover a foreboding looking staircase that led to a sub kitchen where the true horrors awaited. Cockroaches, flies, and rats were freely flying and crawling about, Ramsy screaming in horror, shaking vermin from his hair and then sinking his fingers into the mounds and mounds of rotting fruit and spoiled chopped meat.
"Do we need a death in the restaurant to wake you people up!!" he cries at the top of his lungs.
"IT'S ROTTEN!! YOU SHOULD BE ABSOLUTELY ASHAMED!!!!"
Enraged, he corners Martin, the GM, and in clear words eviscerated the man (and the owner!). "You're taking advantage of a weak rich man," Ramsay tells Martin, who ducks all responsibility.
Ramsay is somewhat subdued in the Peter Pasta episode.
In Peter’s Italian Restaurant, we learn that Tina Pellegrino, sister to Peter Pasta, took over the family-owned upscale eatery a few years prior to Gordon's visit in 2008 (the recession, which by then was really starting to gain steam, extinguished most of the resurrected Kitchen Nightmares restaurants, Peter's apparently among them).
It was already on the verge of closing when Gordin arrived and "dined," spitting out what little shreds of food he'd tasted. The salad was necrotic, the stuffed clams cold and vile tasting, the lobster ravioli likened to baby food. (A chef soon admits on camera: "Whaddya expect? It's from Restaurant Depot." That is a real store where it seems some restaurants apparently purchase the frozen food touted on their menus.)
Our hearts went out to Tina, a hard-working, beautiful Italian woman struggling to run a restaurant -- and control her overbearing, insufferable thieving brother.
Peter wore expensive suits, drove a flashy Mercedes convertible, was possessed of unnaturally white teeth, and acted like he owned the place (which he probably did). He'd boss the staffers around while liberally quoting from The Godfather. One waitress cried for being criticized harshly (something about a bottle of wine, though I must confess I was with Peter on that one, she was too sensitive). Peter did this and a lot more, including slipping his well-manicured hand into the till. He gave meals "on the arm" to diners who could easily afford to pay the bill.
Gordon, as usual, immediately saw through him and identified him as one of the key problems with the restaurant. Peter eventually sees the light and seemingly changes overnight -- just like the restaurant makeover. But people aren't fine dining establishments. Well, at least the viewers got their usual happy ending. (I think the racketeer in Peter had kicked in. He conned Ramsay into thinking he'd seen the light, all the while knowing intuitively that the quickest way to both expedite Ramsay's exit and save face as per his sister and the staff was to pretend to reform completely.)
A couple of a-typical things happened during this episode, however. (See clip below, for the one we describe next.)
A "bill collector" shows up during filming, quietly slipping inside through the front door while Ramsay is delivering one of his obligatory rousing speeches: "Tonight is a really crucial, critical night..."
The "vendor" or whoever he is -- who Ramsay repeatedly tells "Get out of the way" and "Go away" -- is seeking cash he is allegedly owed.
Just as Ramsay himself appears ready to smack the guy across the face, Peter whips his jacket off and the discussion quickly moves outside onto the sidewalk. To Ramsay's "Oh, shit" bewilderment we watch the discussion swiftly evolve into a potential murder scene. The restaurant staff restrains an enraged Peter while the corpulent sweaty vendor tucks himself behind his Caddy's front wheel and drives off, Peter still howling at him.
(Peter uses many more colorful words in the unedited clip above than I was previously aware of -- as they beeped out all the profanity on the version I'd originally watched. This and all the Kitchen Nightmares episodes are now available on Hulu, which you can access via the Amazon Fire TV Stick, among other devices. (I love the Roku device and know of a certain free channel that provides tons of video entertainment...)
Later on in the episode, another "vendor" showed up in the evening and we almost see a repeat of the first visit, with Peter slowly and steadily walking toward the man, who backs up a few steps. However, Tina gets between the men and talked to this "vendor" off camera. He soberly walked off after yelling, loud enough for the camera, that nobody respected Peter anymore. (Puzo was correct about the strength of Italian women.)
I here postulate that these vendors were not vendors and that the collections had nothing to do with the restaurant but rather with Peter himself.
We, later on, came across a website and read:
"[Peter's] was featured as the premiere of the U.S. version of Kitchen Nightmares w/Chef Gordon Ramsay on Sept. 19, 2007, on FOX. This sketchy 'cash only' Italian restaurant has since closed." Someone left a humorous comment: "That's odd since when did mob fronts ever have to make money?"
As for what happened to Pellegrino, why he was kicked out of the mob and his own family hates him, it seems the trouble started with his brother-in-law, Lawrence Raino, a Genovese associate, who took out a restraining order against Peter Pasta -- the two had fought over something.
Raino made "hundreds" of copies of the order and distributed them in "clubs in all the five boroughs," Pellegrino told Capeci.
Raino also spread the word that Peter was a rat, which effectively ended Peter's career in the mob -- and could have future ramifications far worse than a ruined career. (Though Raino doesn't seem very intelligent for a Genovese associate... distributing a restraining order?)
A self-proclaimed brokester, Peter Pasta is currently unemployed and looking for work. So he told Capeci.
The best part is when Ramsay investigates the kitchen, only to discover a foreboding looking staircase that led to a sub kitchen where the true horrors awaited. Cockroaches, flies, and rats were freely flying and crawling about, Ramsy screaming in horror, shaking vermin from his hair and then sinking his fingers into the mounds and mounds of rotting fruit and spoiled chopped meat.
"Do we need a death in the restaurant to wake you people up!!" he cries at the top of his lungs.
"IT'S ROTTEN!! YOU SHOULD BE ABSOLUTELY ASHAMED!!!!"
Enraged, he corners Martin, the GM, and in clear words eviscerated the man (and the owner!). "You're taking advantage of a weak rich man," Ramsay tells Martin, who ducks all responsibility.
Ramsay is somewhat subdued in the Peter Pasta episode.
In Peter’s Italian Restaurant, we learn that Tina Pellegrino, sister to Peter Pasta, took over the family-owned upscale eatery a few years prior to Gordon's visit in 2008 (the recession, which by then was really starting to gain steam, extinguished most of the resurrected Kitchen Nightmares restaurants, Peter's apparently among them).
It was already on the verge of closing when Gordin arrived and "dined," spitting out what little shreds of food he'd tasted. The salad was necrotic, the stuffed clams cold and vile tasting, the lobster ravioli likened to baby food. (A chef soon admits on camera: "Whaddya expect? It's from Restaurant Depot." That is a real store where it seems some restaurants apparently purchase the frozen food touted on their menus.)
Our hearts went out to Tina, a hard-working, beautiful Italian woman struggling to run a restaurant -- and control her overbearing, insufferable thieving brother.
Peter wore expensive suits, drove a flashy Mercedes convertible, was possessed of unnaturally white teeth, and acted like he owned the place (which he probably did). He'd boss the staffers around while liberally quoting from The Godfather. One waitress cried for being criticized harshly (something about a bottle of wine, though I must confess I was with Peter on that one, she was too sensitive). Peter did this and a lot more, including slipping his well-manicured hand into the till. He gave meals "on the arm" to diners who could easily afford to pay the bill.
Gordon, as usual, immediately saw through him and identified him as one of the key problems with the restaurant. Peter eventually sees the light and seemingly changes overnight -- just like the restaurant makeover. But people aren't fine dining establishments. Well, at least the viewers got their usual happy ending. (I think the racketeer in Peter had kicked in. He conned Ramsay into thinking he'd seen the light, all the while knowing intuitively that the quickest way to both expedite Ramsay's exit and save face as per his sister and the staff was to pretend to reform completely.)
A couple of a-typical things happened during this episode, however. (See clip below, for the one we describe next.)
A "bill collector" shows up during filming, quietly slipping inside through the front door while Ramsay is delivering one of his obligatory rousing speeches: "Tonight is a really crucial, critical night..."
The "vendor" or whoever he is -- who Ramsay repeatedly tells "Get out of the way" and "Go away" -- is seeking cash he is allegedly owed.
Just as Ramsay himself appears ready to smack the guy across the face, Peter whips his jacket off and the discussion quickly moves outside onto the sidewalk. To Ramsay's "Oh, shit" bewilderment we watch the discussion swiftly evolve into a potential murder scene. The restaurant staff restrains an enraged Peter while the corpulent sweaty vendor tucks himself behind his Caddy's front wheel and drives off, Peter still howling at him.
(Peter uses many more colorful words in the unedited clip above than I was previously aware of -- as they beeped out all the profanity on the version I'd originally watched. This and all the Kitchen Nightmares episodes are now available on Hulu, which you can access via the Amazon Fire TV Stick, among other devices. (I love the Roku device and know of a certain free channel that provides tons of video entertainment...)
Later on in the episode, another "vendor" showed up in the evening and we almost see a repeat of the first visit, with Peter slowly and steadily walking toward the man, who backs up a few steps. However, Tina gets between the men and talked to this "vendor" off camera. He soberly walked off after yelling, loud enough for the camera, that nobody respected Peter anymore. (Puzo was correct about the strength of Italian women.)
I here postulate that these vendors were not vendors and that the collections had nothing to do with the restaurant but rather with Peter himself.
We, later on, came across a website and read:
"[Peter's] was featured as the premiere of the U.S. version of Kitchen Nightmares w/Chef Gordon Ramsay on Sept. 19, 2007, on FOX. This sketchy 'cash only' Italian restaurant has since closed." Someone left a humorous comment: "That's odd since when did mob fronts ever have to make money?"
As for what happened to Pellegrino, why he was kicked out of the mob and his own family hates him, it seems the trouble started with his brother-in-law, Lawrence Raino, a Genovese associate, who took out a restraining order against Peter Pasta -- the two had fought over something.
Raino made "hundreds" of copies of the order and distributed them in "clubs in all the five boroughs," Pellegrino told Capeci.
Raino also spread the word that Peter was a rat, which effectively ended Peter's career in the mob -- and could have future ramifications far worse than a ruined career. (Though Raino doesn't seem very intelligent for a Genovese associate... distributing a restraining order?)
A self-proclaimed brokester, Peter Pasta is currently unemployed and looking for work. So he told Capeci.
he deserves all he gets , feel sorry for tina , , she was cute ,
ReplyDeleteAmen to that. Peter was/is a real turd! Tina on the other hand I want to marry. An absolutely beautiful Italian woman who cooks? She has my heart!
DeleteI am sure that is the way Ramsay felt also.. it was worth the try to fix the situation for Tina...
DeleteAs for "The Moron of Babylon" (her brother) his Neurons were misfiring.. like an 8 cylinder engine only firing on 1 cylinder.. IF he had a brain he would be dangerous..IF crap was electricity he would be a powerhouse..he is so full of it. All muscle .. no brains.. I feel bad for Tina.. having to put up with a moron like that. Good Luck to her.
Anyone who once made $15,000 a week and is now broke deserves what they get, for being so stupid.
ReplyDelete"Earning", in this context, means making money for someone else. He wasn't personally taking home $15k a week,
ReplyDeleteThat was one of the funniest episodes of kitchen nightmares though, Peter was a real meathead! Dumber than a rock!
ReplyDeleteI think he was very nice and showed he actually cared, had a heart, and wanted to make changes. Life happens. I'm sorry to hear it closed and feelbsorry for Tina too well everyone, they lost their job too. Does anyone know a website where you can find out why it closed?
DeleteJust watched this episode on the BBC and googled to see what happened to the place. Absolutely not surprised it closed, and not surprised at the other 'sketchy' stuff.
ReplyDeleteLike others, I feel sorry for Tina! She was the heart of that place and busting her butt to keep everything afloat. Shame she didn't get more cooperation or help from Mr Showboat. She's a beautiful woman with a lot of heart, hope she ended up doing well for herself.
TO ANONYMOUS....This is Peter...MY email is SEEMIAMI@aol.com...I will find out who you are, because you are such a gangster and authority on things that you post without your name...As far as an errand boy... Your COUSIN LARRY is what??? A bouncer in strip clubs that is such a GANGSTER that he sends my Sister 100 a week for his Son and relies on my elderly mother to support them..!...I could give a good f**K for you..Your cousin or anybody else...Write what you want about Gangsters...I am quite sure, I'd bet my LIFE that when I find out your real name & I will....You can't be anything more than a CLOWN to post on here about things you think you know...LMAO! You know what a Gangster is? A Toughguy is? A MAN who respects and takes care of his Family first and foremost...And if you are Larry's Cousin...His whole family are cops, co's , landscapers and town workers...So what do you know about being a COP???...Cause when I got pinched in Nassau County, The CO was a Cousin too!...Real Gangster Family...I usually would ignore a moron comment...But you wanna talk about a guy from day one, Who is & always was a part time husband and Father and you wanna brag about you're his cousin...LUCKY YOU!!! Maybe he can get you in a strip club and pimp a broad to you and than get pinched and use the PUBLIC DEFENDER...A REAL JOHN GOTTI HE IS.. I promise that I will reach out to you, when I find out who you are, You can tell me Man to Man, Just & You and FOR THE RECORD............ I could give a flying f;;k , who you are..Your cousin is, or anybody else...Tell your Cousin, I spend more than a 100 a week buying my Nephew Wii Games.@ that's what people should know about him...He sends his wife and son a 100 a week and you're bragging that's your Cousin..You sound like a real MEATBALL!
ReplyDeletePeter above is responding to a comment that has been deleted; it was laced with profanity and included person references,so I decided to take it down before Peter responded. So I later made a blog entry out of the two comments, called "Comments, We Get Comments," which if you are interested, you can search for via the search engine on the top right of the blog.
DeleteIf this is the real Peter, I just finished watching the episode and I think you're a really nice guy. I think you did try I think you did care I think you do careand I think it's hard to change overnight. Wish you the best of luck in lifeand with your family.
DeletePeter, from what I could tell from the episode, you're a fake, clueless, pretentious, spoiled brat with anger management issues. I'm not saying this to attack you, I'm just telling it how it is.
DeleteEveryone here it seems responded "Anonymous". Just watching the episode now. No business in the world can operate with people over the edge like that. Ever. Poor Tina, she actually cared, but had too much against here. The money went in the wrong directions. It needed to go into the infrastructure and plan. The great thing about food, is that the big guys do not have a lock on restaurants. The little guy CAN make a living and an impact if hard work, focus, and dedication are performed. Even a small distraction can make a difference. Left unchecked, it will for sure be the downfall. Forget name calling and all that nonsense. It has no impact on the outcome. In the end, if problems are not addressed the establishment fails. In this case, it failed.
ReplyDeleteNow I know why my Florentine Grandmother and my mom referred to some italian personalities and individuals as "baraca" it means garbage Peter you are definitely garbage and of NO use to society You are guilty of the sins of greed pride and arrogance ...go see a priest and confesss
ReplyDeletePeter. Perfect name for a penis. Steroids maybe. Wanna be. I like him. Very entertaining. Should have his own show.
ReplyDeleteTina was a hottie! Marrying kind. Looks kind hearted.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all...Peter was on a reality show!!!! I think that the character he portrayed was pure fiction and drama!!! Just for entertainment purposes and entertain us the show and Peter did!!! I saw the show and I laughed my you know what off!!! He must've done something right because people are still talking about him albeit not nice!!! I know Peter and his sisters and they are, really nice, down to earth people. Peter is the kind of person who would give you the shirt off his back as would his sisters. Don't judge him or his family!!! Hi Peter it's Monica (spanish girl) from Deer Park. Hope all is well with you and your family. Stay strong and wonderful!!!
ReplyDeleteOh PLEASE!!! tell that to the poor people he is shaking down in the sober house he's living in now !!
DeleteI responded to the email...
ReplyDeleteI just have seen that episode in a Spanish TV and I think about Peter from the first moment, that he is a perfect idiot. Absolute idiot, and with a person like him, ANY bussiness can work ever.
ReplyDeleteNow i see that he worked for the mafia and the restaurant is closed. Is normal. Stupidity and problems are in the same hand.
Y'all have to admit it was an entertaining episode, especially the "scuffle" outside the restaurant. Shame the sister had to deal with the obvious issues. Seems like a very nice woman.
ReplyDelete"Ignorance can be taught away, but stupidity is forever". Peter comes across as having a learning disability. His elevator has yet to make it to the top floor. Peter might be better suited for a simple job nothing in the service field.
ReplyDeleteFunny show! Peter showed he has a good heart, he's simply not restaurant material; doesn't mean he's a bad person. Nobody is perfect, some people's imperfections are more prominent than others. Good luck
ReplyDeleteI grew up with Peter nobody knows him like i do except Pat Marone.he was like my brother.even wen he abused my loyalty I stood by him.I was his best friend growing up.people called. Me. A fool.cause I always. Gave in always saved him&protected him.whatever. is to become of my brother is yet to be. Seen. Ill say this for him his mother&father are at fault for spoilling him and letting him yet. Away with it.Peter could never do wrong in there eyes.my pal is 46 &don't. Knowe who he is!! That is sad & all who know Peter know that's the truth!!! Let's pray he finds his way so he maybe able to mend. A few fences!! Nobody on here is perfect. To. Bash my pal.& if anyone. Has. The. Right too its me!!! Or pat marine!!!so help a man who's surly been lost who. Needs our patients &love! !!
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Prayers and love ;)
DeletePETER I LOVE YOU BRO & ALL I CAN SAY IS MOVE FORWARD!! FORGET. THE PAST!! KEEP. IT Reel!!!)
ReplyDeleteI am just seeing the episode for the first time and like a lot of the posters, I immediately wanted to know the outcome for the restaurant. Didn't think it would all be about Peter. He behaved like a thug and a lout and no surprise he remained that way. If he has indeed hit rock bottom, I hope he finds he way back to the world with a bit more humility.
ReplyDeleteSo much for Peter. And we now know his father is gone. What has become of his sister?
hey peter, I was thinking maybe you should just go get a trade or something. You could work while you are studying and pay off your debts quickly while moving forward in life....or you could keep getting busted with controlled substances. just blaze bro.
ReplyDeletehttp://lindenhurst.patch.com/articles/police-report-insurance-fraud-medical-prescription-forgery-dwi
Maybe his family wants to visit him in Bethpage!
ReplyDeletePolice records in Bethpage
ReplyDeletepolice records in bethpage?cops showed in our house 19times since this guy came over this house and destroyed our family relation.he dostroyed our whole apartment including one of our roomates properties
DeletePerhaps his sister wants to visit him!
ReplyDeleteI am not impatient.......just want to get it out there..... like calling the info #411! Maybe he needs friends to comfort him!
ReplyDeleteI think it's his life , let him bee I think he's hot , and needs to know he's loved , from a lil town in cambridge ont
ReplyDeletesorry......it's not mindless! He is a loser! Just what has he done positive in his life?
ReplyDeleteU ask for help from a blog? What can a blog do? I cant even understand half of what u wrote... tell the story and try to make sense at least...
ReplyDeletewith this guy, it looks life will take it's course, he is ia bull out of control and will be stopped by someone, if not the autorities.
ReplyDeleteI had a wonderful meal in this restaurant back in 2003 or 2004. We were gathered together to celebrate Father's Day with my cousin who lives and works in Bablon. Last year, I wanted to give my cousin & his wife a gift certificate to what was once their favorite restaurant, and found out it was closed. My TV was tuned into BBC today, and they were showing the episode with Gordon Ramsey back in 2007. The family dynamic was like watching a soap opera...drama, drama, drama, with Gordon in the mix. When I went researching the Pelligrino family, this blog appeared. Babylon loved Peter's, and it was a pleasure to dine there. So sorry that the family couldn't make it work.
ReplyDeleteToo bad for the sister. She tried, but the whole place was sucked dry by the lazy leeches there.
ReplyDeleteTo whoever keeps adding the same type of comments to this story -- we get the message; what you say is more than said enough above...
ReplyDeleteAhhh..yayayy..Mr Scarpa..First of all ; love your blogs..but a lil disapointed that yous always delete many comments that are not favorable to petey boy..dis not a public blog..wereabout people can express point ove views?...i enjoy reading all comments...good and bad..very amuseing..and not all comments deleted by you were mine bye da way...keep up da good work...Vito.
ReplyDeleteI like comments that say something, or add to something, or that even subtract from something... but comments that simply repeat the same thing are really boring, and to me boring equals annoying... It's like, we get it, Petey Pasta is not widely loved; people have serious issues with him... Could be one person making many, many comments, or many people each making a comment... OR it could be someone or -ones making stuff up and commenting... or a mix of the two. The bottom line is, I have no way to tell... But giving the benefit of the doubt, these people with the issues should deal with these issues and not whine in a comments section...
DeleteAnd if you have a legit story then contact me -- I am always looking for story ideas.
DeleteI grew up in the restaurant business, and obviously had an interest in Ramsey's show - to see Peter's being utterly destroyed by this 350 pound moron was truly painful, Worse though is that I was *enraged* that Ramsey would spend the effort to outfit Peter's with the new kit (stoves, ovens, broilers, tableware, etc.) - when the entire revenue stream was so obviously being pocketed by the resident short-bus loser/thief. There are so many honest and hard working people out there trying to make it work, and Ramsey "buys" (gets vendors to donate for air time mention) this UNDESERVING P.O.S. 20-30 thousand in new gear? Why not have Petey sell his car, or maybe some of his suits and $500 shoes to pay for the damn ovens? After all, that gear could have, and SHOULD have, been purchased with the money Peter STOLE FROM HIS SISTER!
ReplyDeleteI feel really sorry for Tina, having had her brother literally embezzle her into BK, but at the same time, she knew what had to be done to save the business (fire Moron Pete), and didn't. She would NO DOUBT have made it, and made it big (in restaurant terms at least), had she just done what she KNEW what had to be done. Watching her as she allowed Moron Pete to demand drinks while patrons went unserved, eat food purchased by her guests, ride roughshod over every employee, patron, and any other person within 500 feet of his overbearing moronic attitude - was so painful. Tina - you have a good heart, but you allowed this to happen. You are a very beautiful and smart woman, who will - HOPEFULLY - be able to try again someday: you have what it takes (and most so-called foodies haven't a clue): you just need to either wait for Moron Pete to be found with high speed lead poisoning in the back of his skull, or put your no doubt beautiful foot down and tell this land shark to take a walk. Off a pier...
I think Ramsey was "had" as my headline indicates. I noticed the Michelen -starred chef didn't return for the followup episode (when he revisits places he worked on); they filmed the segment without Gordon, which I think suggests he figured them out... Ramsey is no fool and I think your anger and frustration is "spot on."
DeleteA lot of these rest. know gordons coming. Production crews visit days before, they have to sign release forms, cotracts. If Peter was a "Made" guy, would gordon talk to him that way? Would he "make it" to his next show?....
ReplyDeleteI liked Peter and his love of tanning, tooth-whitening, and cappuccino.
ReplyDeletePeter, gordon ramsey should have done slapped the white of your teeth! Have fun working in the local carwash! Btw..... go eat some cheese you zip
ReplyDeletelol whats the name of the carwash hes working right now??
DeleteI have the same blood as this loser Peter, his whole family aside from Tina are embarrassments. Tina is the only one with a brain. He is a wannabe and always has been.
ReplyDeleteI have been to this place twice- food was okay, not great- never met or saw Peter- but Tina is def a babe
ReplyDeleteThe guy was never nothin but a wanna be.
ReplyDeleteYou's can't read either? His (Peter Pasta's) Brother-inlaw.... Lawrence Raino, a Genovese associate, took out a restraining order against Peter Pasta -- the two had had a brawl over something -- and Raino made "hundreds" of copies of the order and distributed them in "clubs in all the five boroughs,"
ReplyDeleteSO WHO'S THE RAT? Lawrence Raino!!! And he's a Genovese associate and they allowed that???? Something is wrong with this story!!!
I doubt they would allow that!
I have enjoyed reading all the comments, I must admit I was doing a follow-up to see what happened to Tina, Peter and the family. I saw in Peter the same as most of the folks who though not highly of him. I hate to say it but I wanted to see him fail because I know his kind, they use intimidation to get what they want. After reading the "inside story" - piecing together folks who know the family, know Peter, it really sounds very sad. I am a "Friend of Bill W's" I see now that addiction plays a part throughout a family, not just the person using. I would hope Peter stays clean and sober, look at his character defects and change, become a productive member of society. We all have an opportunity to "RE-INVENT ourselves" Michael from Pittsburgh
ReplyDeleteI accidentally deleted the last comment - began with the notion it was Tina's fault for hiring Peter. I have email copies of all comments and will repost the comment. To the commenter - I apologize.
ReplyDeleteHope the sister (Tina) found her way out of the financial issues she had mentioned if the restaurant had failed. Sad to hear the father (Yogi) passed away. Never would've took him to run a book.
ReplyDeleteCurious to know what happened to the chefs (Robert & John) that were on the line.
we are 3 people living in a apartment in bethpage,ny we are living simply paycheck by paycheck trying to meet ends meetworking hard but happy all the time,,one of my roommates who basically lease the apartment named ELIZABETH CAIN who is my bestfriend she is currently working in dunkin donuts and carwash at the same time that period..one day she end up bringing a guy name peter pellegrino ended up staying with us which made our apartment miserable,,he is a complete crackhead and a drug addict...i made research about him online then i ended talking to my friend elizabeth which is peters girlfriend about that issue..this peter almost ended my life ..choke me the hell out of me and beat the living hell out of me too..i tried calling the cops but its not a help because ,,he is a different person infront of the cops..i figured the tattoo in his arms which name felluci or 2face mask describes him well...weeks that i cant sleep scared by myself,..and thank god that elizabeths sister named maureen help me to moveout...this guy has 2 face or personality ..he destroyed a happy family and my friend name elizabeth now got drug issues all because of his mind washing games...anyone who knows this person where they live please inform me here..hope u understand my story im not really good in english..
ReplyDeleteHas anyone helped you, Chenelie?
DeleteOh my god. Maybe I was wrong. I hope you are ok hun, get out of that house, stay with friends. Leave its not worth it
DeleteElizabeth Cain(peters GF) sister named Maureen that i met the same day when he attack me..after a few weeks that month he did the same story to elizabeth son accusing him of putting cameras at their room which it never happened and assuming stuff..he made the elizabeth choose between him and the son..and elizabeth choose peter..but the son end up better than both of them..everytime he say stuff that he connected to the mafia..i feel bad for lunatic people they should be in a place that they can get medical attention..its been a year exactly..i moved out of our apartment december27,2012
Deletehe always say that hes connected to the Gotti family....i mean if hes connected why hes homeless and goin to peoples family and ruining it...... my friend that time thinks that hes all nice and gentlemen Mr perfect i even help him ,.,hes so nice in the first week and the rest of that is evil/lies ..Hes very good in mindwashing and twisting things around...im just letting u know guys becareful stay away from him..i swear to my own mothers grave and i swear to god all this things happened to me lastyear..and ther are more he did to us that im not allowed to write here..
DeleteWhy aren't you allowed to? Maybe all you folks terrorized by this guy should start talking -- to the cops!!!
Deletewe are actually terrorized by this guy ..we called the cops like how many times cause of constantly fighting...he smashed some of my stuff and i told he cop but cop listens to him more than us..because he has two face...well peters girlfriend sister help us until today shes still helping us rather her helping her own sister..who kept asking money for no reasons
Deleteim hundred percent that he reads the comments here,,..but when i movedout we all called authority to get him investigated..i got his number from one of the people i know but the only thing i wanna call is to ask his GF which is my friend how she is ..because weve been together as bestfriends for awhile..its just sad that she went to wrong path.
DeleteHow are you 100% certain he reads the comments here? Did he tell you he reads the comments section of the story about him?
ReplyDeletePeter retarded crackhead responding to the comment above.
Deleteive seen him on the blog responding to some here before wen we use to live together
ReplyDeleteHe was affiliated with the Bonannos. There ain't no Gotti family -- if he's saying that he is full of $-it.... I wouldn't worry about the Mafia. Doesn't sound like he earns and based on his alleged drug habit he's probably been chased out.
ReplyDeleteIf a person is on a so called mafia group why would he tell everyone that hes connected??isnt that supposed to be a pledge that there not allowed to tell anyone ?
ReplyDelete@cheneliechuva if you want his number let me know.
ReplyDeletePeters father yogi is rollin in his grave.What a freakin waste of offspring. In this case the apple did not fall near the tree but rather blown to another orchard. One with crackheads, losers and fruitcakes.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone out there know where peter and liz r staying?peter is smoking crack and Liz is taking all types of pills and drinking.The two of them together are stealing from people and stores,not working and headed for an arrest and jail.Liz's family has disowned her because of the shit peter made her do.If anyone knows where they could b please reply.
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