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The design, which includes spines of books set into the wall by the bar, plays off the literary conceit without turning it into a fetish. A table lamp wears an alphabet lampshade, a giant wooden pencil is mounted high on one wall and a fountain pen gushing ink is painted on the floorboards.
And [Chris] Kidder's one-page menu is almost haiku -- it's so concise. Everyone at the table falls silent, actually reading it, because many of the items are so original and wonderfully quirky. They're not copycat anything, though they do share a sensibility with Campanile's rustic Mediterranean cuisine.
S. Irene Virbila 6/15/05
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