The next time you hear a “Bang!” sound while finishing dessert at your favorite NYC restaurant, be thankful the noise came from a large saucepan smacking against the kitchen floor, instead of a bullet flying at your chest.

Yet, for an unlucky group of the city’s most notorious mobsters, whose dinner plans took an expected twist, gunshots were the last sounds they heard before biting the dust. Talk about some serious indigestion.

That scene from the 1986 movie 9 1/2 Weeks, when Mickey Rourke’s character describes to Kim Basinger in gory detail the story of a local mobster gunned down while dining at the same table occupied by the couple, rings eerily true to many native New Yorkers.

The lovers are sitting close together enjoying a bowl of pasta and sipping red wine as Rourke relays the tale: “The chair you’re sitting in right now, a guy named Gino Gambini… got his brains blown out… while eating the same thing  you are, a dish of linguine con cozze…” As Basinger gasps, Rourke goes on to describe another killing, which occurred at the other end of the dining room years later.

While Rourke’s harrowing tales are likely derived from a screenwriter’s imagination, the following murders really did transpire at some of the city’s most well-known restaurants.

Sparks Steakhouse

On Monday, December 16, 1985, “Big Paul” Castellano was shot dead in front of Sparks Steakhouse. The beleaguered mob boss barely made it out of his car, when four assassins closed in and gunned the big man down. Castellano’s driver was also killed in the mob hit. Soon after hearing the gunshots, patrons flooded out of the midtown restaurant in shock and horror over the brutal scene.

Joe and Mary’s Italian American Restaurant

Back in the day, Bushwick wasn’t the gentrified, hipster-friendly neighborhood that it is today. In fact, it was known as a dangerous, high-crime area, which most tourists avoided. Although that is no longer the case, the murder of former Bonanno family boss Carmine Galante exemplifies the neighborhood’s troublesome past. While Galante lunched in the back patio of Joe and Mary’s Italian American Restaurant, three hitmen wearing ski masks stormed into the place and unleashed heavy gunfire on the unsuspecting Galante. The three men obliterated the aging mob boss before fleeing the restaurant, leaving Galante’s body crumpled on the ground with a cigar still hanging from his mouth.

Umberto’s Clam House

Perhaps the most notorious NYC restaurant shooting took place at Umberto’s Clam House. In the early morning hours of April 7, 1972, “Crazy” Joe Gallo celebrated his 43rd birthday at the Little Italy staple. The restaurant, which was a neighborhood hot spot at the time, would soon become infamous when several gunmen entered the clam house and started firing at Crazy Joe. After being struck five times with bullets, the enigmatic gangster stumbled out of the restaurant and died in the street.