Ku Klux Klambake

The new Wise Guys Restaurant in West Haven is only the latest business enterprise to find humor in the brutal, bloody legacy of the Mafia. The restaurant has photos of capos like Joe Bonnano and Al Capone on the walls, along with their fictional equivalents, and in general believes that the image of Clemenza cooking spaghetti for the boys in the cramped kitchen a mob house under siege stands as a culinary high point. If this theme proves successful, what can we expect to see next? Maybe a Ku Klux Klan-themed restaurant featuring Southern cuisine, or a wooden-beamed, Nazi-themed inn with German fare and wonderful uniforms for the waitstaff. I hear Joe Stalin was quite a cook in his off hours, too.