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Joe's Basement.

No, it's not the unreleased sequel to Joe's apartment, the 1996 Dario Connell Cockroach

Buddy Comedy.

It's the rough English translation of the name of one of the biggest Italian-American

restaurant chains, which began in the basement of an apartment building in Minneapolis in

1993, while predecessor and competitor of the Olive Garden states in their slogan,

When you're here, you're family.

This eatery makes family part of their core business concept, serving its dishes in

giant communal portions intended for sharing.

Italian-American food has a long-standing relationship with Italian-American cinema,

and Campbell Scott and Stanley Tugi's big night Italian food is itself a character.

Films The Godfather, Lady and the Tramp, The Freshman and Spaceballs include Italian

food and memorable sequences.

Recently, the original prestige TV series David Chase's The Sprannos featured the obsessive

eating of mobster Tony soprano, the virtuosic home cookery of neglected housewife Carmella

soprano, and the ongoing travails of tortured beta male chef Arty Bucco, whose restaurant

Fassuvio was repeatedly exploited by its mafia clientele.

The show even included as a cast member of the real-life owner of Italian restaurant

Reos, Frank Pellegrino, who played FBI chief Frank Kubitozo.

And of course, there's good fellas.

Martin Scorsese's 1990 mob movie where Mafiosos refused to pay huge restaurant tabs, prepare

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