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[Sneakeater]

Continental Europeans, anyway.

[Stone]

Indeed.

[Daniel]

I'm not able to follow what you are trying to discuss in this topic, but ISA is not serving bad food at all.
It is not great, like Roberta's or Masten and Lake, but it is some how different. The decoration is very nice too, I agree that Taavo is better carpenter hehehe.
Some pictures of what you can find there:


I was impress by the Sardine, the rest of the dinner was good/ok
JMM

Beautiful photos.. Welcome... I was heading over to Isa the other night but, felt our 11 year old would enjoy prime meats better... At 8 o clock they didn't told me we didnt even have to make a reservation, just to come on over.. The restaurant looks really pretty.. Look forward to more of your write ups

[Wilfrid]

You know, Daniel? I am pretty sure my 11 year old would not like this food at all. This is studious stuff. It's for people who can say, "Wow, so that's what a sweet potato leaf tastes like." I'd be more likely to take her to WD-50, where the food can be very funny as well as challenging.

[oakapple]

Liquor license approved.

[Wilfrid]

More Good News: Wilfred the Pink Pig calls Isa "highly sophisticated, intellectually stimulating, and satisfying." He had three courses for $50: "This kitchen seizes the current dining clichés of local, sustainable, seasonal (yes, they grow their own green things) and executes them with unprecedented refinement. This is foraged food plated by an artist...The first tastes which arrive will scare hearty trenchermen and have them planning on a burger across the street as a digestif, but the meat plates are robust enough to anchor the menu, and flavors throughout are rich and striking. [The Pink Pig]

Thanks, Eater.

[Sneakeater]

Too bad those Infatuated guys appear to be morons.

(I think I might have passed one of them talking about it on the street in Prospect Heights over the weekend. Somebody saying the same thing about someplace, anyway.)

[oakapple]

Too bad those Infatuated guys appear to be morons.

Yes, that seems to be what sometimes passes for criticism these days.

[Orik]

I filled out their online reservation form. Needless to say, they never got back to me. In keeping with MF policy I will now punish them by posting about their impossible reservations and cluelessness on every thread.

[Wilfrid]

Why don't you just walk in? The menu isn't served only to one table once a fortnight (or whatever). There is also a "telephone."

What an icky website.

[Orik]

Yes, the website is something else.

[jmoranmoya]

I'm not able to follow what you are trying to discuss in this topic, but ISA is not serving bad food at all.
It is not great, like Roberta's or Masten and Lake, but it is some how different. The decoration is very nice too, I agree that Taavo is better carpenter hehehe.
Some pictures of what you can find there:


I was impress by the Sardine, the rest of the dinner was good/ok
JMM

Beautiful photos.. Welcome... I was heading over to Isa the other night but, felt our 11 year old would enjoy prime meats better... At 8 o clock they didn't told me we didnt even have to make a reservation, just to come on over.. The restaurant looks really pretty.. Look forward to more of your write ups

Thanks Daniel. I liked better Prime Meats too, and I have more than 11 years...

[Sneakeater]

Ignacio Mattos in Paper:

You have to see our bathrooms. The kind of food we're doing is related to the bathroom design. It's infinite; it never ends. It's exactly the same thing with the food. No limits.

I wish Sammy's Romanian related their bathroom design to the kind of food they do.

[Wilfrid]

I wish Sammy's Romanian related their bathroom design to the kind of food they do.

Disgusting and $35 to use it?

[Wilfrid]

Hasn't anyone except Jose been yet? I want to check if I'm mad or not.