Campisi's Egyptian Restaurant

Wikify|date=September 2007 [Don Fulsom, Crime Magazine: An Encyclopedia of Crime (October 16, 2006), available at www.CrimeMagazine.com] In the mid-1940s, in Dallas, Texas, restaurateur Joseph Campisi (1918–1990) founded Campisi's Egyptian Lounge (later renamed Campisi's Egyptian Restaurant). Serving customers since 1946, Campisi's Restaurant is a Dallas landmark. Campisi's is located at 5610 E. Mockingbird Lane, across the freeway US 75 / I-45 from University Park. The Campisi family manages and maintains ownership of the original establishment. Being in business for over fifty years has allowed the Campisi family to increase the presence of Campisi's Egyptian throughout the Dallas area. The Campisi family now has six additional branches. Each branch is owned and operated by third and fourth-generation descendants of founder Joe Campisi. Campisi's offers a Roman cuisine.

The legacy of Joe Campisi has garnered attention concerning reported connections to Italian criminal syndicates. According to information ascertained from records of the House Select Committee on Assassinations reporting on the presidential assassination located at theJFK Assassination Research and Report, other members of the Campisi family, including Sam Campisi, were associates of the Dallas syndicate. [http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/hsca/reportvols/vol9/html/HSCA_Vol9_0172b.htm ] When rising New Orleans mobster Carlos Marcello succeeded Louisiana Mafia Boss Sam Carolla, the Campisi brothers became lieutenants under the new boss. By the early 1960s, the Campisi brothers had become visible figures in organized crime. This was especially true of Joe Campisi-- who benefited from close ties to the Marcello crime family, the region's most dominant organization. Long considered to be second-in-command within the Dallas Mafia hierarchy, Campisi wielded considerable influence in the Dallas underworld. [ Don Fulsom, Crime Magazine: An Encyclopedia of Crime (October 16, 2006), available at www.CrimeMagazine.com]

External links

* [http://www.campisis.us/ Campisi's Restaurant]