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Rampage at Isabella's Oven

Posted by Adam Kuban, February 11, 2009 at 11:00 AM

Eater

After Isabella's Oven announced that it would close (but possibly reopen in another location), Curbed brought word that someone there had taken a sledgehammer to the joint following a dispute with the landlord. Now, Eater has pix of the aftermath—and it's not pretty. The space is now utterly unusable as-is—though it looks like at least the foundation of pizza oven is still intact (you can see it in the photo above in the upper right-hand corner).

There's probably not much hope in using the location as a pizzeria again, as there was virtually no room for seating inside. Isabella's relied on its backyard patio for dining when the weather was nice, but in inclement weather or the dead of winter, what are you gonna do?

And forget moving that brick oven elsewhere, so that's probably a loss, too.

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