Dinner at Isabella's Judge Marsha Slough - Redlands magazine
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taste | dining<br />
Manager Daniel Fenesan sets tables before the dinner rush <strong>at</strong> Isabella’s Ristorante in <strong>Redlands</strong>.<br />
Following a<br />
passion<br />
20 | inlandliving<strong>magazine</strong>.com | april 09<br />
For Isabella’s<br />
rIstorante owners,<br />
love oF good Food<br />
Is key to success<br />
By BETTS GRIFFONE<br />
Photos by ERIc REED<br />
It was an InauspIcIous begInnIng for Isabella’s<br />
Ristorante owners Ruth and Martin Felix.<br />
“we met over a steam table, so to speak,” Ruth says.<br />
actually, both worked in the same restaurant and<br />
a love of good food drew them together.<br />
the Felixes started their small chain of restaurants in<br />
san bernardino, where they depended on a busy lunch<br />
crowd to carry the business. success led them to open a<br />
<strong>Redlands</strong> loc<strong>at</strong>ion 14 years ago and another one in corona<br />
five years after th<strong>at</strong>.<br />
about two years ago, downtown san bernardino could<br />
no longer support Isabella’s, so the original loc<strong>at</strong>ion was<br />
closed. but not long after th<strong>at</strong>, the Felixes opened a new<br />
place in calimesa.<br />
Much of the staff <strong>at</strong> all three restaurants is family. Martin<br />
is the executive chef, with two of his nephews running the<br />
kitchen in <strong>Redlands</strong> and his two brothers heading the<br />
cooking staffs in corona and calimesa. everyone was trained
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