Isabella’s
Sep 28th, 2013 by willmarks
There is a nice Italian restaurant a few blocks from us in our Turó Park neighborhood, Isabella’s, where we have been a couple of times. The pizza is tasty and the pasta delicious and spicy in at least one instance; this is important to note because the food in Spain is never spicy, unfortunately for those of us who like a little kick. The “Penne a la arrabiata con oliva negra” offered that necessary amount of fresh pepper to make you at least think about lifting your wine or water glass after every bite. Our friends enjoyed the “Tagliata de ternera con parmesano”, which I will try next time. The salads are also satisfying (both the Burrata and Cesar) and the Gazpacho is the smooth textured type with good flavor and cool and refreshing; if you are one of those who likes gazpacho in concept but not the lumpiness, this is for you.
Now, about our waiter, Marco. He is from Milan but here with his wife, who is Spanish, and young child. When learning that we were from the U.S., he commented that “you have my favorite sport in America, wrestling…10 years ago I saw Stone Cold Steve Austin in Roma.” He could not have been more excited to talk about WWF and informed us that, “my dream and my brother’s dream is for us to come to America and see wrestling.” (I’m guessing it is not his wife’s dream, at least the nature of the dream.) But Marco was worried that time would run out before he could make the trip, and sadly cautioned, “the Undertaker will be finished fighting by then.”
