Originally posted by Double-J:
If I recall, didn't Giannascoli appear in the Season 1 episode (not as Vito) as a customer in the bakery scene where Chris shoots the clerk in the foot?
Exactly. That scene is memorable for two reasons... one that you mentioned above and also it was an "inside" joke about Chris shooting the clerk in the foot just as he (Chris) was shot in his role in "Goodfellas".
BTW - Don Smitty, who lives near the (real-life) bakery reports that it closed down this past year.