Our wine room holds 18 perfectly and our main dining room can accomadate from 50 to 100.  We also have four patios to choose from when the weather is beautiful!

Please call us at 214-618-3384 or email us at info@isabellasfrisco.com

San Marco Church, Venice Italy

Isabella’s will be open this Sunday for Lunch & Dinner with beautiful seating outside with fountain views.  Menu to be announced soon…

Isabella's Fountain

Isabella's Wine Bar & Wine Room

Isabella’s – Wine Bar

Italiani Volo della Fantasia – Italian

Flight of Fantasy

Vini in Volo – Wines in Flight

Italiani Volo Bianco

Italian White Flight   $8

Maschio, Prosecco

Coltibuono, Trappoline, Sauvignon / Chardonnay

Kris, Pinot Grigio

Italiani Volo Rosso

Italian Red Flight   $14

Montepulciano D’Abruzzo

Sartori Montegradella Valpolicella

Banfi, Chianti Classico Riserva

Americani Volo Bianco

American White Flight   $11

Robert Hall, Paso Robles, Sauvignon Blanc

Milbrandt Vineyards, Washington State, Riesling

Newton, Napa-Sonoma, Chardonnay

Americani Volo Rosso

American Red Flight   $12

Rosenblum, Vintage Cuvee, Syrah

“A” by Acacia, Pinot Noir, California

Robert Hall, Cabernet Sauvignon

Isabella’s Italian Restaurant is awarded, D Recommends 2010.  We thank the editors at D magazine for the special recognition.

Isabella’s is featuring a very special wine dinner in March for the benefit of Haiti and their tragedy.  I will ask a personal request that you try hard to enjoy a very special evening but more importantly help a country and people in such need for today and their future.  If you are unable to attend please send this invitation to others to share a time in need.

regards,  Kenyon Price, Proprietor, Isabella’s Italian Restaurant

The wines will be Buena Vista Carneros Chardonnay, Gary Farrell Russian River Valley Pinot Noir, Atlas Peak Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon & XY Zin Zinfandel with 100 Year Old Vines.

Our menu and our wines.  We promise a spectacular evening of Food, Wine, and for a great cause…

Buena Vista Carneros Chardonnay

Italian Bocconcini Buffalo Mozzarello with Grape Tomatoes & aged Balsamic Vinegar

Gary Farrell Russian River Valley Pinot Noir

Homemade Gnocchi with Gorgonzola Cream and Sweet Walnuts with Arugula

Atlas Peak Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

Lamb Chops “Scottadito “ (means blistered fingers),  Marinated Grilled Lamb Chops served with a Parsnip Puree & Swiss Chard finished with Mint Pesto

La Dolce – Peach Panna Cotta

XY Zin Zinfandel with 100 Year Old Vines

Cheese Plate

Isabella's and the Beautiful Fountain

Fountain and Isabellas and Snow

Winter Wonderland at Isabella's

Isabella Snowbound

Isabella’s – Wine Bar

Italiani Volo della Fantasia – Italian

Flight of Fantasy

Vini in Volo – Wines in Flight

Italiani Volo Bianco

Italian White Flight   $8

Maschio, Prosecco

Coltibuono, Trappoline, Sauvignon / Chardonnay

Kris, Pinot Grigio

Italiani Volo Rosso

Italian Red Flight   $14 

Montepulciano D’Abruzzo

Sartori Montegradella Valpolicella

Banfi, Chianti Classico Riserva

Americani Volo Bianco

American White Flight   $11

Robert Hall, Paso Robles, Sauvignon Blanc

Milbrandt Vineyards, Washington State, Riesling

Newton, Napa-Sonoma, Chardonnay

Americani Volo Rosso

American Red Flight   $12

Rosenblum, Vintage Cuvee, Syrah

“A” by Acacia, Pinot Noir, California

Robert Hall, Cabernet Sauvignon

Isabella and the "Tarantella Dance"

   It was considered severely unlucky to dance the Tarantella alone, so it was danced as a couple or by two females (Goethe says three,) which was probably due to the boredom of dancing alone. Love and pleasure are apparent throughout this dance. Each motion, each gesture, is made with the most voluptuous gracefulness. Animated by the accompanying mandolins, tambourines and castanets, the woman tries, by her rapidity and liveliness, to excite the love of her partner, who, in his turn, endeavors to charm her with his agility, elegance, and demonstrations of tenderness. The two dancers would unite, separate, return, fly into each other’s arms, again bound away, and in their unlike gestures alternately express love, coquetry and inconstancy.

   How long has it been around, I don’t really know, but the earliest writings I can find mention the St. Vitus dance in 1374 and nothing until Jean Coaralli, who in 1839 produced the ballet called “La Tarentule.”Madame Michau (c.1840s) introduced the dance to the dancing public in 1844 (this version was often used in ballets.) However, it was said that: “to dance the Tarantella in ballroom circles, as they danced it at Naples would be impossible” and going on to say “Therefore, when Madame Michau introduced it in London in 1844, she made a selection of only about eight steps or figures, that had great mastery among the higher classes there.”

There are three sources for the origination of this dance.
1) One is the bite of the Tarantula, Arania or Apulian Spider (= Lycosa Tarantula) or Wolf Spider (Tarantula being most popular.) The dance was used apparently to cure the bite of the spider (a cure if you will.) The bite of the spider was presumed to make one hallucinate. The town’s folk will play music while the afflicted person would dance nonstop, to ward off the spider’s venom.
2) Others say when bitten, the Tarantula spiders venom, would make the person uncontrollably move about as if dancing. In 1374 (other reports say 1021), an “Outbreak of Dancing in the Middle Ages ” referred to as the St. Vitus Dance that went unexplained until the realization that these dancers had been bitten by the Tarantula spider. (1374 - Aachen, Germany-dancing madness, lasting hours, believed due to the bite of the Tarantula Spider, also considered to be first dance marathon in history.)
3) The Third story is of the town’s named Toranto and Tarentum , its supposed origin. Women working in the fields, who would be bit by the Tarantula spider would dance off the venom. It is said that having been found that profuse perspiration, which seemed to force the poison out through the pores of the body, was the only remedy for the bite of this venomous spider, and as exercise was their chief means of inducing perspiration. (Many believed back then that the this Spider’s bite to be deadly, and during those times, there was no anti venom available.)

By  D MAGAZINE   February 2008

“Isabella’s.  Striking Italian spot has a grand, villa-esque feel thanks to a stone exterior guarded by moat.  The menu of pastas, pizzas, seafood, and steak strikes good balance between familiar and exotic.  Excellent wine list has lot’s of Italian labels.”

Isabella's Italian Restaurant and the Fountain