Campisi's Restaurant is an Italian restaurant located in Dallas, TX, offering a self-described Roman cuisine.
The facility was founded as Campisi's Egyptian Lounge in the mid-1940s by Joseph Campisi. Renamed Campisi's Restaurant, it began serving restaurant customers in 1946.
The Campisi family continues to own and manage the restaurant and have opened six additional branches throughout the Dallas area.
Campisi's is well known locally for its founder's connections to organized crime[1], a fact the restaurant capitalizes on for publicity. Jack Ruby was a regular at the restaurant and ate there the night before he shot Lee Harvey Oswald.[2]