Forget About It

My Cousin Vinny … and Vito … and Frank … and Other Fibs Restaurantgoers Tell for a Table

Sorry, bro.
Sorry, bro. Photo: Michelle Feffer/New York Magazine

Not so fast, fake famiglia. Aggressive customers who pretend to be related to big-family Italian restaurateurs are only getting their asses served to them now that managers like Frank Clemente of Graziella’s have caught on to their games. “Sometimes I’ll just say, ‘Sorry, sir, Vito doesn’t know you.” [Brooklyn Daily]

My Cousin Vinny … and Vito … and Frank … and Other Fibs Restaurantgoers