Campanella 7365 Healdsburg Ave. Sebastopol 707-910-3030
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Wednesday and Thursday, 11:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday, 11:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
based anything was a foreign concept. (The illustration of Brooklyn Nonna on the menu, replete with curling-iron updo and oversized red granny glasses, is a composite of a typical Kennedy-era nonna.) For entrees we sampled the gnocchi ($24), a generous portion of soft dumplings under a creamy ragu Bolognese, and the Palisades ($27), one of a handful of 14-inch New York-style pizzas on the menu. The pizzas are a must—ample enough for two, ours featured mushrooms and caramelized onions over a garlicky confit-cream sauce, the highlight of the meal. Other classic red-sauce-joint recipes on the menu include spaghetti and Nonna’s meatballs ($27), linguini and clams ($29) and, of course, chickens parm ($26) and cacciatore ($28). Tutto buonissimo! As we polished off a shared chocolate budino ($13) from the dessert menu, we overheard what was clearly a pair of female regulars at the table next to us asking the server about his kids and whispering between themselves as to whether they recognized any of the other patrons. Campanella is clearly their neighborhood restaurant, and quietly growing into one for all of Sebastopol. Somewhere Nonna is smiling. t
Did You Know? Campanella means “little bell” in Italian.
Jason Walsh is editor in chief of NorthBay biz magazine and northbaybiz.com. A North Bay native, he’s spent his career covering the news, lifestyles and people of Sonoma, Marin and Napa counties. When not up to his elbows in page proofs, you can find him and his family exploring all corners of the North Bay from their home base in Novato.
New York-style pizzas are a staple of ‘red sauce joints.’
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