Satriale's Pork Store is a fictional establishment on the HBO series ''

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''. During the 1970s, the pork store was taken over by Johnny Soprano, a capo in the

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, when Francis Satriale failed to make payments on a

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debt. It became a regular hangout for current members of the DiMeo crime family. The filming location was in

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'', a prequel to ''The Sopranos''.

Location

Satriale's Pork Store is a meat market in Kearny,

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. Although a mob-owned establishment, Satriale's runs a legitimate business, selling a variety of meats, pork, and sausage, along with deli-style sandwiches. The store has a coffee bar that sells pastries and

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, as seen in several episodes. In the large storefront windows hang cured hams and trussed pig carcasses, coils of pink-and-beige sausages, including a denuded chicken with its beak still in place. In the episode "Pilot,"

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tells

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and the gang that his wife

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sends him to the store regularly because she thinks it sells the best capicola. FBI Agent

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, who investigates Tony Soprano and the members of his family throughout the show, loves their veal parmesan sandwiches. In the episode "Toodle-Fucking-Oo," Silvio tells Richie Aprile that Tony no longer discusses mob business directly with his capos, using Silvio Dante as an intermediary, and never discusses mob business at Satriale's anymore because of FBI surveillance. This angers Richie. Satriale's is prominently featured in the video game '' The Sopranos: Road to Respect''. The interior walls of the storeroom where Emil "E-Mail" Kolar is murdered by

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have black and white framed photographs of classic actors and entertainers, like Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson and Dean Martin, hanging on the walls. These actors were known to portray anti-hero mob characters and in some cases associated with real mobsters during their careers. Satriale's is possibly based on Sacco's Meat Market located at 806 3rd Avenue in Elizabeth, New Jersey which served as the unofficial criminal headquarters of "Uncle Joe" Giacobbe, a veteran

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in the

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Production

The pork store was called Centanni's Meat Market () in the pilot episode, an actual butchery in Elizabeth, New Jersey. After the series was picked up by HBO, the producers leased a building with a store front in

Kearny, New Jersey Kearny ( ) is a town in the western part of Hudson County, New Jersey, United States and a suburb of Newark. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town's population was 40,684, which served as the shooting location for exterior and interior scenes for the remainder of production, renamed Satriale's Pork Store. After the series ended, the building was demolished. The owner intended to sell bricks as souvenirs. The location inspired a deli of the same name in Sydney, Australia.

Important events that occurred in Satriale's

* Tony Soprano witnessed a violent encounter involving Mr. Satriale and his father, leading to his first

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later that day. * Christopher Moltisanti shot his first victim, Emil Kolar, in the rear of the store. * Silvio Dante and Paulie Gualtieri beat Ariel, the son-in-law of Shlomo Teittleman in a room on the upper floor of the store and debate with Tony whether or not to murder him. * After an explosive argument where Tony yells at Christopher and Brendan Filone about their successful hijacking of a Comley Trucking transport truck, a trucking company that operates under the "protection" of Tony's uncle Corrado Soprano, Brendan is picked up and thrown out of the back room and into the kitchen where he rolls over a table of fresh meat chops. He made the statement that Tony is really the boss of the family since Jackie Aprile Sr. became the "Chemo-sabe", a reference to Jackie's cancer. This greatly angers Tony. * Christopher and

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disposed of

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's remains by using the meat saw and butcher's knives to

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his body. * Tony and Ralph Cifaretto are forced to make a decision regarding Jackie Aprile, Jr.'s future. * Finn revealed to Tony and other capos and associates his encounter with Vito two years prior when Vito was giving oral sex to a security guard in a car. Finn's story played a pivotal role in determining whether the rumors of Vito's sexuality were true. * Tony meets with

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to discuss the takeover of Corrado Soprano's businesses and where the DiMeo crime family stands at that time. * Silvio Dante and

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murder Lupertazzi family soldier Fat Dom Giamello after he makes a series of jokes concerning Vito's murder and the sexual preferences of New Jersey men. * Tony Blundetto gives Silvio Dante, Paulie Gualtieri, and

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back massages and angers Tony Soprano by speaking back to him in front of his fellow mobsters. * Agent Harris plies Tony for information on suspected terrorists and warns him about the attempt on his life from

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. *

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dresses as Santa Claus for the neighborhood children and give out toys every Christmas. During one Christmas Eve Salvatore becomes drunk and temperamental angering some of the children. It is later surmised that Bonpensiero was wearing a secretly hidden FBI wire on his person during the festivities. After he is murdered,

assumes the role of Santa Claus. *In ''The Sopranos: Road to Respect'' a health inspector discovers that the kitchen is filthy and states that he has found rat droppings in the kitchen and wants to report it. LaRocca successfully persuades the health inspector to not write up the citation forcing the restaurant's closure. * In ''The Sopranos: Road to Respect'' Joey LaRocca, the illegitimate son of Salvatore Bonpensiero, is initiated into the DiMeo crime family.

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