An excellent meal at Camper in downtown Menlo.
Butternut squash soup was utterly balanced and delicious with some lovely garnish. Great Shishito peppers with kosher salt and honey glaze, sounds odd but worked really well. Skinny fries, 
fried to perfection with garlicky mayo. Corn bread was buttery and had excellent texture. Cider was okay and I would not order this again.
We don’t go to camper much because they are biased toward large plates, and away from small plates. never a question about the quality of food though. has the menu changed at all?
You are correct.
But we end up pretty much ordering from the snacks and starters menu, and we’ve walked away more than happy every time.
Restaurants on the Peninsula are often overlooked compared to their counterparts in San Francisco even though many of them offer good dishes which reach similar levels of quality. Camper in Menlo Park is one of these places which is more recognized as a neighborhood place but actually delivers on many levels - good appetizers, great house-made pasta, excellent desserts and good cocktail program.
Another visit to one of our “neighborhood” restaurants - Camper https://campermp.com/ Small, lively place with normally well thought out and executed dish and good cocktails. This time a few missteps - some of lamb dumplings had dried out skin and weren’t well heated up. And the flat iron steak was a really bad value - two relatively small slices for a high price. Yes, prices are going up everywhere but the price for that amount was ridiculous.
