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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 member who appeared after the Kitchen Nightmares episode aired, 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 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, reporting:
Today, like the battered and bruised…
The once-promising Bonanno member who appeared after the Kitchen Nightmares episode aired, 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 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, reporting:
Today, like the battered and bruised…
This country's shot as far as mob activity. Vegas is good, since you can cloak lack of substance in glitz. For interesting shows with real mob activity as a background, I'd go to Montreal, Palermo, or Napoli.
ReplyDeleteMontrel would be great. I'm biased bc I am Canadian. Althoighf mob life in Canada for the wives seems to be generally low key. People aren't nearly as flamboyant as American mafiosos - even in their heyday.
ReplyDeleteKeep in mind that none of the females on the show are really mob wives. You've got a few daughters, nieces, former mistresses, maybe a broke ex-wife, and maybe someone who once sold a wiseguy a necktie. The show is a hit because of the appetite of audiences for anything with the word mob associated with it, especially when it portrays characters in a negative way.
DeleteWith MWC cancelled and Big Ang seemingly up in the air -- along with the fact VH1 has not announced an extension into Philly OR Miami, both of which JGraz has announced have been cast and are ready to film, I wonder if VH1 thinks this franchise may have run its course. It sounds like KG may be leaving as well based on her cryptic announcement that only Scarpo seems to lend the appropriate weight to...bottom line I think season three will decide the fate of the franchise ...
DeleteMontreal is hot -- open warfare could break out anytime, with the Rizzuto family moving to seize back control of the city's OC rackets ...
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