This restaurant got a lot of press in 2009 when ex-con Anthony "Fat Tony" Rabito was banned from it on condition of his parole, since the Mafia was hustlin' there 24/7. But Fat Tony is just the beginning. One of the more sensational Don Peppe rumors claims that mob boss Ciro Perrone got so irate at a waiter who spilled a drink on his wife that he had his crew, including famous snitch Henry Hill, wait with lead pipes and baseball bats for the staff to leave at the end of the night. That same Perrone was caught disrespecting Growing Up Gotti over a Don Peppe meal by the Feds' wiretaps, so clearly, that guy fears nothing.
Wasn't it Paul Vario's wife Phyllis who had the drink spilled an her? From the same article: "It was reported that after a waiter spilled a drink on the wife of Lucchese crime boss Paul Vario, he ordered his capos, including famous FBI rat/informant Henry Hill, to attack the waitstaff and cooks with lead pipes after they closed up for the evening". According to Hill in his book "we were chasing waiters and breaking heads all over Brooklyn that night".
