Campania

Italian restaurant · Bethnal Green

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"The Instagram version of Columbia Road Flower Market was a lie. Dahlias weren’t getting pelted into submission by raindrops the size of new potatoes, and the cafes weren’t full of people staring into the slate sky with the despondency of a Ben Affleck meme. Just when you start wishing you’d organised a trip to Italy instead, book dinner at Campania & Jones. This charming Italian restaurant off Columbia Road is on the kind of cobbled street that looks romantic in the rain. Inside, it’s all flickering candles, hands being held over rustic wooden tables, and piles of venison ragu clinging to belt-like pappardelle." - rianne shlebak, sinead cranna