A Between-the-Holidays Dinner at Campagnolo Roma
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| James Wright |
On a rainy weeknight between Christmas and New Years and seeking something quite different from turkey or ham, a friend and I went to Campagnolo Roma – a sister restaurant to Campognolo on Main Street near Terminal.
Campagnolo Roma is at 2297 Hastings (across and down a block from East Village Bakery – more about it another time!) and specializes – surprise - in dishes with a bit more Roman bent versus Northern or Southern Italian.
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| Campagnolo Roma |
I love Italian food (all food, I guess), nurtured by the three months I spent in Bologna a few years ago studying the language. I think I studied il cibo bolognese as much as I did la lingua italiana….
But back to Campognolo Roma: I enjoyed the “local octopus salad” for starters, with greens, chilled potato, gaeta olives and red wine vinegar, then dug into a nice bowl of spaghetti con salsiccia finocchio; I believe my partner had the pasta with wild boar special, but I’m frankly not sure as I was concentrating on my own dinner. I do know we shared a bottle of Montepulciano d’abruzzo riserva. Being very careful as always about my weight, I virtuously turned down dolce.
As we were finishing a young couple came in, sat at the cozy little bar and started off with a couple of glasses of prosecco – now why didn’t I think of that??
- James W. Wright
General Director, Vancouver Opera
General Director, Vancouver Opera
