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Must say, I'm a little surprised with the raving reviews... food was ok, but not great, and way overpriced. We ordered two pasta dishes and both came to the table appetizer-sized. The pizza was tasty, but the crust was soggy. I don't care how good it is, who wants soggy-crusted pizza? The service was mediocre. Our waitress was not very knowledgeable on what was AVAILABLE on the menu (turned out they were out of four items we wanted to order). We received a large attitude when we asked for change (by the way, it's cash only) and and even larger attitude when we caught a mistake on the check. Overall, the food was good but I would not return... with the money we spent we could have gone to a much better restaurant with better service and ambience. They have a lot of work to do in order to stick around for the long haul.

Pupster, I'm so sorry you had mediocre pizza at Isabella's. Adam K. and I also had lousy pizza there two weekends ago. We posted about it on our pizza tour post. The good pie man, Luigi, has gone back to Italy. The current pieman is nothing special, as you and I found out recently.

Lousy. We had expectations after the rave from Levine. Now I know his opinion can't be trusted. We ordered multiple pizzas, and there were serious issues with crust and sauce. Ingredients were just so-so. On par with any neighborhood slice joints. Not even close to being among the top 10 in the city..