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Campo opens in Village

  • by Jack Lunch
  • in Arts and Life · Dining
  • — 14 Dec, 2012

It’s taken a decade, but it looks like Mammoth has finally gotten it right in filling one of its signature commercial spaces in the Village at Mammoth.

Campo, a wildly popular new Italian restaurant in downtown Reno recently voted one of America’s Best 20 New Restaurants in 2012 by Esquire Magazine, will open a new location in the Village beginning this weekend.

Campo Owner Mark Estee, who was a co-owner of Moody’s in Truckee for 10 years before opening Campo, said he had never even visited Mammoth before being approached by Levy Restaurant Group. Levy, Mammoth Mountain’s food service purveryor, approached Estee about taking over the old Hyde Lounge spot.

In exchange for use of the name, helping open the restaurant and visiting several times a year in a consulting capacity, Estee will have a part interest in Campo Mammoth.

Estee recruited one of his chefs in Reno, Michael Schreck, to move to Mammoth to become Executive Chef here.

A native of Billerica, Mass. with a Greek and Italian heritage, Estee was a football player in college before developing culinary interests. He worked at the Hyatt Boston post-college before transferring out west to the Hyatt Incline Village in January, 1996.

A father of two, Estee says Campo means “gathering place” and that’s just what he intends to build here, a “neighborhood joint.”

One, however, that happens to have a wood-fired pizza oven imported from Naples, Italy.

Estee noted that 90% of his predecessor, Hyde Lounge’s, sales were booze. “When I looked at their menu, I understood why,” he said.

Clearly, Estee has different sales goals in mind for Campo Mammoth.

(Photo: Lunch)

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— Jack Lunch

Jack is the publisher and editor of The Sheet. He writes a lot of page two's.

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4 Comments

  1. tom says:
    December 16, 2012 at 7:45 am

    Another restaurant that MMSA is opening.Meanwhile June Mountains’ magic carpet has been taken away for ‘spare parts’ at MMSA.I cannot and will support anything owned by MMSA until June reopens…..I wonder if they got all of the kitchen equipment for the new reataurant from the chalet at June…..Rusty must go.

  2. tom says:
    December 16, 2012 at 7:46 am

    oops…will NOT support anything MMSA owns/operates.

  3. Jen says:
    December 16, 2012 at 5:45 pm

    I’ve eaten here twice and the food is wonderful. I’m going again tonight and happy to know there will be one less person eating there so I’ll get my table faster. Thanks Tom! Oh, and it’s not a mountain-owned restaurant. Levy Food & Beverage brought them in since they have successful locations in Reno.

  4. tom says:
    December 17, 2012 at 10:33 am

    levy is contracted by MMSA to run all of the food service for the mountain…….you missed my point. 3 times in one wk?…better hit the gym.

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