Isola Restaurant & Pizzeria
Bringing Italy to Edgartown
Aley Lewis
Downtown Edgartown is home to plenty of restaurants to satisfy every craving. From
breakfast food at 8pm, to homemade chocolate chip ice cream, to fresh bagels, the
options are endless. However, if you’re in the mood for some authentic
Italian cuisine with five different types of pasta made in house every
day, Isola is your ultimate destination.
Located in Post Office Square behind the Edgartown Court
House, Isola Restaurant screams “Italian”. The entrance way, adorned
with an oversized Italian flag, invites you
into a beautifully decorated patio seating area with wicker chairs and marble tables,
perfect for a date night under the stars. The welcoming atmosphere, combined with the
enticing scent of brick oven pizza, is more than enough to attract a crowd.
In addition to its outdoor patio, Isola has a dimly lit dining room, with contrasting grays
and browns to set the scene for a romantic dinner for two. The bar is just as impressive
as Isola’s bartenders are pouring house made Lemoncello to quench your thirst.
Opened by Peter Sullo, Isola Restaurant was created in hopes to bring authentic family
recipes he grew up with to islanders.
“His family was his biggest inspiration. He is such a driven man and does everything for
our family. His dream was to own a sit down authentic Italian restaurant,” says Peter’s
daughter and manager of Isola Gabrielle Sullo.
Isola’s menu is small and just what an Italian restaurant should be. From grilled
calamari salad with orange supremes, fennel, red onion, bell pepper and torn basil, to
the seared diver scallops atop spinach fettuccine, melted leeks, toasted almonds and
marinated tomatoes, there are the perfect amount of tantalizing, mouth watering dishes
to choose from.
Executive Chef Jeff Wingo’s goal is to blend Italian cuisine with fresh vineyard seafood.
Sourcing all of their fish from Menemsha Fish House, you can find fresh ingredients at
an affordable price.
One of the most popular dishes on the menu is the hand made cavatelli. “It’s a whole
milk ricotta base with Parmesan mixed in. It’s served with chard rapine, and a Parmesan
broth. We also make a spicy Italian sausage, that we render out and char the rapine in.
We then deglaze the pan with stock, and reduce that with some more Parmesan cheese”
stated Wingo.
If that doesn’t make your mouth water, the cavatelli is topped with cured egg yolks that
sit in salt and sugar for up to a week. Grated over the pasta like Parmesan cheese, the
intensified taste of the salty, creamy concoction is enough to leave you dreaming about it
for the rest of the summer.
But this chic, casual, family owned restaurant is more than just that, it is a community
that is opening its arms to islanders in hopes to have them enjoy their family’s recipes as
much as they have growing up.
“Homemade is our biggest thing. Our goal is to combine authentic Italian with local
ingredients. We want people who are here on the island for the first time to try the local
seafood, but also taste the authentic Italian side”, said Sullo.
With a new summer menu being released in the coming weeks offering a larger variety
of summer produce and seafood, Isola is the place to enjoy a satisfying meal that will
leave you yelling “Delizioso, cozi buono!”.
Isola. 17 Church St, Edgartown, MA. 774-549- 9446. IsolaMV.com
