I attended a wedding reception on Saturday April 5, 2008. It was my first time attending an event at Villa Barone. As soon as I pulled up my I was turned off. The valet parking crew that works there is totally disrespectful. I showed up late so everyone had parked their cars already. I thought I had gotten lucky and found a spot on the street already. Until this extremely overweight man came outside and told me that I couldn't park there. Fine, no harm done. I pulled my car up in front of the restaurant and this same man came over and started yelling at me! My apologies because I had never been to this place before and I didn't know I had to pull my car all the way inside. I asked this gentleman why he was yelling at me? He began to shout and his language became EXTREMELY vulgar! I had my wife and my 3 year old daughter with me. I didn't want my kid to hear all of this vulgarity. So I asked for my ticket and proceeded to the entrance. As I was walking away I hear the tires on my car screeching. This ""overweight gentleman"" must have told one of the other valet parkers to destroy my car or something. When he came back, I asked the guy for his name and the overweight gentleman told me to go inside and to mine my own business. I went inside and asked 3 different waiters plus the coat check girl if there was a manager around. Obviously they knew that I was about to complain about something. So they all told me that the manager wasn't there. I'm very upset that this had to happen. All because of the fact that I ""thought"" there was an open street spot. This overweight gentleman didn't have to be so vulgar about it. Even at the end of the night when everyone was getting their cars he was being overly loud. I even seen this man put his hand on another mans chest and told the man to step behind a line. This gentleman didn't even speak English so he didn't understand the guy. I had to translate it for him. I would NOT recommend this restaurant to anyone!
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