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Old 03-30-2007, 10:57 AM
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Default Re: Isabella's restaurant. Your opinion!

It seems that you're more concerned about service than the food. My wife and I find the food at Isabella's very good. One of the best tasting marinara's in town...very authentic...high quality and reasonably priced. Some of the best restaurants have marginal service and patrons looking for great food very often overlook the lines, the wait and such. Lewis Grizzard once said, great barbeque can be found only in those places where all the chairs don't match......folks go to out-of-the-way dives for the great food and nothing else. Most us have heard at sometime in our lives.....in a twangy drawl... "If it's ambiance and snap-finger service yer lookin fer....ain't gonna find it here....no-sir....this ain't Delmonico's.....but if yer wantin' kick-butt 'Que....yer in the right joint". Eateries around this little berg often have lot's trouble finding good servers....turnover is high and the help wanted ads in the Daily Sun are evidence that most places are always searching for good help. The very best employees expect to be paid accordingly....and restaurateurs price their fair commensurate with their overhead cost. So, expect to pay a premium price for great service, great food, great location and fabulous ambiance. Although Isabella's is far from being a dive, the food is pretty darn good, the digs are nice and clean and the price is very fair....service notwithstaning. Me dos centavos.
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