Upstairs at Campagnolo
GO HERE: for the full Upstairs at Campagnolo experience: a super low-key hangout with great drinks and the kind of craveable food chefs like to eat after their shifts.
ORDER: wines you can’t find anywhere else in the city, like the Coenobium, an orange wine made by Italian nuns, or one of the barrel oak–aged Negronis. Wash it all down with a back-to-basics dirty burger and on-point poutine, both of which will be delivered from the kitchen of Campagnolo, the sister restaurant downstairs.
THE VIBE IS: your uncle’s 1980 billiards-green basement with cinder-block walls and a bar, except you go upstairs to get to it instead of down. The door to Camp Upstairs, as the dive bar is lovingly dubbed, isn’t obvious from the street, so it should be easy to find an open barstool.
PRACTICAL STUFF: Open every day, from 6 p.m. to whenever the staff pleases. No reservations.
—Lindsay Anderson
