Isabela Mexican Restaurant

Just ordered delivery from here. It’s delicious. We have a couple mexican restaurants within a block radius of our apartment in South Slope and we also frequent Nuevo Mexico. All are pretty great and more on par with west coast Mexican than Manhattan Mexican but this place is a cut above. The green sauce is tangy and spicy and the salsa is great.
I ordered a burrito (safe) for my first time but I’m excited to dive deeper into the menu and try their more authentic specialties because this was WAY more authentic in its execution than a burrito needs to be. I love that it came with queso, avocado, radishes and green sauce.

This restaurant does delivery, but the few times I called for delivery, they got my order wrong, and when I called to complain, they said they didn’t make a mistake that it was I who was wrong. Then on the next delivery, I made the delivery guy check in front of me my order, it was wrong, the paper where the order I had given was written there, but it was the wrong food. When the delivery guy call to explain what was happening, they just told him to leave the food there, get paid, and leave. No apologies were given!!! To be honest the food is good, specially the pozole, that is why, I no longer do delivery but pick up, but I always check in front of them my food before paying. I don’t recommend eating in the place because it is always full of drunk men. I would have given them more stars if they had apologized and accepted their mistakes, I understand that no one is perfect but their failure to do that made me give them only two, and that is only because of their food.

The food is delicious, the prices are reasonable, and delivery is always on time. I particularly like the guacamole & the chorizo burrito.

I ordered the chicken tacos and guac. The chicken was not grilled as advertised. It tasted like it was made in a pot and had a lot of cartilage. The guac was ok but it came in a coffee cup, just thought that was weird. Would not recommend this place, there are much better mexican places around.

Just an overall frustrating experience for breakfast/​brunch on a Sunday.
Based on Food and price, this would be about 4 stars, but based on organization and how long it took simple breakfast to pop out of the kitchen, and how requests to get the check, just went ignored, and take out orders seem to supersede the in house customer, I’m at a loss of why these things happen. This place is also, not the cleanest place in the world. Overall, I might stop back for a sandwich some day, but otherwise, there are other options.

don’t bother coming here if you’re not white or mexican, they will straight disrespect you. fuck this place.

Wonderful delivery service everytime. The food is delicious. :) too bad i only buy once a week :(

It’s my favorite restaurant, I love the pollo asado, los tacos, delicious food
100% recomendable, garantizado!!!

I love this locally owned restaurant, my parents used to bring me here as a kid. Now I continue to come with and without them. I’ve tried different plates throughout the years but my personal favorites are the tamales and the taquitos (small tacos) they’re both only $ 1.50 each.

Tostada and quesadillas are really to die for. Good place to stay. They have conversations with you if they like you.

Stellar margaritas, strong but not too sweet. Must try the guacamole too!

Cheap, open forever, RICE ‘N BEANS! I got the Mexican omelette for something like 6 bucks including sides. I don’t know what’s up with jukeboxes playing polka and Mexican food around here but I’m not complaining. I’ll be coming back, but I might wanna take a Spanish lesson before that.

Being from San Francisco you get people always saying how good Mexican food is in the Bay Area but its the people that make the food, not the area and eating at Isabelas was a good choice. The food was good and the service was great. The fresh juices are good, the tacos were really good and the meat was juicy not dry. Had to hang out there for an extra 30 minutes during a quick thunder shower and they had no problem.

I actually like their Carne Asada tacos better than Matamoros. I pretty much just go for those. And the Bohemias.

I loved the vibe in this place the first time I went. It was early on a Sunday evening and so quiet my friends actually pulled out a deck of cards and we happily played some rummy while waiting for the food to arrive. The second time I think was a Friday – totally different scene with the jukebox blaring and the place jampacked. That had its own appeal too and I liked the music.
As for the food, what I’ve tried so far is good to amazing. I definitely recommend trying the house specialties (handwritten sign on the bar) vs. regular menu items. Mole poblano is great, the sopa de mariscos is great. Shrimp a la mexicana from the menu just OK. There’s a shrimp thing on the specials menu that is actually a ball of cornmeal and dried shrimp – interesting, but not what I expected even with 2 friends there who speak pretty good Spanish. Now that I know what they are, I’m seriously looking forward to trying the other specials – barbacoa goat, pork ribs in salsa verde, and a vegetarian dish for Lent, fried lambs-​quarters patties.

Ok, I have to admit I still (so far) like Matamoros’ tacos better. But this place has a lot of good things going for it like:
–the full bar
–great food
–great little takeout window thingy that I don’t entirely understand.
–they take credit cards
But you know how you get chips and salsa in Mexican restaurants? Well this place has my favorite salsa.
It didn’t matter that my friends and I were screaming at each other over jukebox, I really like this place. A lot.