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Leave the Gun, Take the Barolo

A Five Families walk through the streets my family actually walked — ending at one table, with the wines of Sicily and Piedmont.

3.5 hours · Late afternoon into evening

Up to 8 guests · Private parties up to 6

Most mob tours in this city are performed. This one is inherited — a walk through Little Italy and NoLIta told in the first person, past the Ravenite’s bricked pride, Umberto’s Clam House, and the corners where my great-uncle Jimmy ran numbers before the neighborhood had a single espresso machine.

This is history, not costume. No fedoras, no tommy-gun props — the register is the same as our journeys through Burgundy: places entered through their true stories, told by someone with standing to tell them.

The walk ends in a private back room a few steps off Mulberry Street, at one long table, where the second half of the evening begins: five wines of Sicily and Piedmont, poured and narrated — Nerello from the slopes of Etna to open, Barolo to finish, each chosen because it belongs to some part of the story you have just walked through.

Evenings begin at $495 a guest at the shared table, and at $2,400 for a private party of up to six. We say the price plainly because the room is small and the calendar is short — we would rather be clear than coy.

The Substance

What You’ll Actually Do

The Ravenite storefront and what the FBI’s cameras saw from the sidewalk across the street.

Umberto’s Clam House and the night Joey Gallo’s luck ran out.

The corners of Uncle Jimmy’s numbers routes, told as family memory rather than folklore.

The Godfather locations, and the naming lore told properly — as lore, not fact.

The back-room table: five wines, Sicily to Piedmont, narrated like a sommelier’s own cellar.

A final pour and the story we save for the end.

“Every family has stories. Mine happen to be the ones the movies were made from — and the polite thing to do with a story like that is to set a table for it.”

— Anthony Clemenza

Leave the Gun, Take the Barolo — New York

A Note Before You Book

Timing, Honestly

The walk runs rain or shine — the dinner is the anchor, and a wet sidewalk has never once spoiled a table. Book three weeks out; December fills first.

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