Wednesday, March 01, 2023

The Egyptian Restaurant

 
We took the kids, the other day, to the original Campisi's Pizza joint over on Mockingbird. This is where all the Dallas mobsters ate. Sinatra supposedly ate here once. According to legend, Jack Ruby dined here the night before he shot Oswald. When the Campisi family moved in they couldn't afford to take down the original Egyptian Lounge sign of the place that used to be at the location. They did change the lounge lettering to "restaurant." It's been there since. It's a cool place. Very dark when you enter. This also the place where in the back room they gave SMU football players envelopes of cash in the 1980's.