{"id":377447,"date":"2026-08-21T12:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T12:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/377447\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T12:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T12:50:11","slug":"issabella-mediterranean-restaurant-to-close-in-miami-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/377447\/","title":{"rendered":"Issabella Mediterranean restaurant to close in Miami Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/issabella2 (2) (1).jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"The Mediterranean restaurant Issabella on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach is closing.\" alt=\"The Mediterranean restaurant Issabella on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach is closing.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        The Mediterranean restaurant Issabella on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach is closing.<\/p>\n<p>            The Louis Collection<\/p>\n<p>After five years on Lincoln Road, Issabella, the Mediterranean restaurant that took over the former space of Balan\u2019s, is closing its doors.<\/p>\n<p>And now, almost 30 years after the first Balan\u2019s opened on Lincoln Road, Balan\u2019s is returning to fill the Issabella space at 1022 Lincoln Rd.<\/p>\n<p>Issabella, which <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/miami-com\/restaurants\/article256588101.html\">opened in 2021<\/a> and was created by Balan\u2019s founders Jonathan and Keva Balan, will complete its final service on Aug. 30. The new Balan\u2019s plans to reopen on Sept. 17.<\/p>\n<p>The plan for the new Balan\u2019s is not to mimic the original, which first opened in 1997, in every respect. There will be new menu items, many of them Mediterranean in style, and new programming.<\/p>\n<p>But customers will also find familiar favorites on the menu, like the eggs Benedict, Belgian waffles, the Balan\u2019s burger and fish and chips. The restaurant will also revive its popular brunch daily service \u2014 yes, daily \u2014 until 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Balan\u2019s at Mary Brickell Village in Brickell remains open as well.<\/p>\n<p>            Connie Ogle loves wine, books and the Miami Heat. Please don\u2019t make her eat a mango.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mediterranean restaurant Issabella on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach is closing. The Louis Collection After five years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-377447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}