Campanile in the Eighties
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I found these pages floating about, with nothing to tell me what restaurant they belonged to. But I'm pretty sure this was Campanile - probably the restaurant that made me the happiest.
I loved the food that Mark Peel and Nancy Silverton were making - and I loved the way the restaurant (designed by Josh Schweitzer) looked. There was a fountain in the front, filled with goldfish, which is why Nick called it "the fishy restaurant."
Even today, thirty years later, this menu remains incredibly appealing. I think they were the first to serve warm, just-made mozzarella in LA. And I know they were the first to serve those great Persian mulberries.
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