Campanile (restaurant)
Campanile was a restaurant co-founded by Mark Peel, Nancy Silverton and Manfred Krankl,[1] which earned acclaim during the 23 years it was in business.Built by Charlie Chaplin in 1929, the neglected building was discovered by Silverton’s mother and bought by her father, then renovated according to the specifications of Campanile’s co-founders.Five months before launching Campanile, the founders opened La Brea Bakery as part of the restaurant complex, to provide the quality breads they wanted to serve.[4] For more than two decades Peel served as executive chef at Campanile, where food critic Jonathan Gold observed that “It is hard to overstate Campanile’s contributions to American cooking,“ and “… Peel is still the most exacting grill chef in the country, a master who plays his smoldering logs the way that Pinchas Zukerman does a Stradivarius.” In its November 1997 issue, Los Angeles Magazine said, “Arguably the best restaurant in L.A., Campanile —- home to Nancy Silverton’s La Brea Bakery and local shrine to Mark Peel’s urban-rustic cuisine —- continues to be solid yet innovative, comforting yet startling.Peel became distracted following Silverton's departure, collaborating in several other restaurants, competed on the first season of Top Chef Masters, served as a judge on Hell's Kitchen, as Campanile lost its lease and closed in 2012.