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Cantina Panaderia, Pacific Beach California The Coffee Cup Café, La Jolla California Founder – The Mission Café’s, San Diego California Known to her friends and restaurant patrons as Foodgirl, Isabel serves up food for the body—and soul. Isabel’s family immigrated to New York’s Spanish Harlem, then settling in Los Angeles, where large and frequent gatherings were always centered around food. Growing up cooking, self taught, Isabel was also influenced by cooking styles found throughout the Asian communities of Los Angeles. The result is food that is exotic, fresh, dynamic—and healthy! Taking the fusion craze to the next level, Isabel manages to allow for, and encourage, healthy yet delicious choices in all her menus. Isabel’s beliefs in clean, simple eating are transforming people’s perceptions of “health food” dishes. In addition to her commitment to a healthy dining experience,her responsibilities to a healthier way of eating are always present, but never overshadow the delicious recipes in her menus, and in her latest cookbook Bite This!, Foodgirl’s Guide to healthy shopping, cooking and eating. |
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