As one of the managers of Campisi’s Restaurant, a family-run business that has been a Dallas favorite since 1946, Amber Campisi can be chauvinistic about her family’s cooking. "I’ll eat anything," she says, "but I don’t usually like Italian anywhere else. The way we do it is just better."
It’s hard to argue with her, especially since she’s willing to put her opinion where your mouth is. When the 23-year-old nude restaurateur visited our office, she hauled in enough oval pizzas to feed the staff. "My family can’t travel without them," she says. "When we go to the Cayman Islands every year, we bring lasagna and pizzas in a cooler. It’s just ridiculous."
Amber’s affinity has been hard-earned. "There are pictures of me wearing an apron and a name tag when I was five years old," she says. "I would go to work with my dad when I was little and stay until closing time. They’d cover me with napkins, and I’d sleep in a booth."
Miss Campisi first appeared in Playboy in December 2003 as part of their 50th Anniversary Playmate Search. Amber decided to try out when scouts visited her hometown. "I was done with college," she says, "and I wanted to try something fun and new, so I thought, Why not? Modeling comes easily to me- I could do it all day." A self-described social creature, Amber says she could also talk all day and even all night: "Sometimes I’ll start chatting with customers and lose track of the time, and I’ll look up and it’s two in the morning. I love it when that happens."
As for dating, Amber Campisi appreciates the romantic, old-school approach. "I’m the type who likes dinner, wine and conversation. He doesn’t have to be the cutest guy, just as long as I’m having fun and laughing." Oldschool she may be, but Amber is hardly bound by tradition. "I usually make the first move," she says. "I like guys who are hard to get. I’m all about the chase." You should definitely consider yourself hunted if Amber appears with her idea of a romantic dish: some kind of pasta, "along with a really good Italian steak with lots of garlic–which is an aphrodisiac- and some kind of dessert made with chocolate, also an aphrodisiac."
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