Manzo

Yum yum yum.
Delicious Italian food. The mozzarella was delicious (prepared deliciously on a bed of creamy leeks and hazelnuts).
The pasta was very tasty and awesome.
The place is a hidden gem in Eataly and I’d definitely recommend it for a nice dinner (certainly not cheap but worth it).

It’s one of the only spots in Eataly that takes reservations and I can’t imagine going any other way. We decided to stop in on a random Monday during the holidays to treat ourselves and I am glad we did!
The host was juggling a ton of people and also random guests who had finished dining and wanted to clearly have a detailed conversation with him. I was irritated because we had to wait a good 15 minutes after our reservation to be seated and he wasn’t giving us the right attention because of the other finished diners. Prioritize, my friend.
Our waiter was amazing and so knowledgeable. I think he memorized the wine list, or should I say book, because when I put in our drink orders he didn’t bat an eye and delivered with ease. We started with a sweet potato and cheese amuse bouche which I honestly wish I could have ordered on the menu. It was amazing! We then ordered the burrata to share without the bacon and it was delicious! Almost foamy but filled with flavor and in a delicious green dipping sauce. Bread bowl was also pretty marvelous and they gave us tons of refills. Score!
I ordered the lobster pasta which was made with a linguine. The pasta was as fresh as can be and there was SO MUCH LOBSTER in the pasta. I’m not always used to this, so another perk in my book. I felt like the pasta, while fresh, did not have a ton of flavor in it, and my unsophisticated American palette probably could have used some more sauce. But, it was quality. Husband ordered the short rib with polenta and devoured it. We both enjoyed our food so much that we didn’t even want to share.
Our bill was around $ 125 and we opted out of dessert to grab some gelato instead. Manzo was certainly a pleasant experience and I would go back, but only for a special occasion given price point.

Went out on a Friday night with a group of 4. Each of us ordered the New York strip medium rare. It was 39 dollars for the steak. We realized once the steaks arrived that they sliced up at most 2 different steaks and gave each of us 4 slices. This was evident by the fact slices were arranged without corresponding degrees of doneness. I would say 3 out of our 4 slices were medium at best. With one slice of medium rare each. I thought this was the première meat restaurant of Eataly. Why would anyone want to waste 40 bucks for 4 slices of New York strip? Rather spend my money at a legit steak house. That would give me a full steak at the desired temperature for the same price. The steak was bland too. The most flavorful thing was the bed of spinach.

There was some weird incident with some flooding and not sure why but a very cold breeze for about 30 minutes. Some guests were very rude but the hostess and waitresses were very polite and apologetic. They offered the meal for free if we would like to leave and we declined and said it was ok. My wife and I got the the fixe which is the a lunch trio. We weren’t super impressed by the food. 6 plates in total and we tried each others. The gnocchi was the best. The waitress took 10 $ off our dinner and apologized for the cold over and over. The meal costed us less than 50 for the two of us. The food was just ok, I probably wouldn’t come back considering all the other places to try. But under different circumstances and trying different things on the menu, it has 5 star potential.

My first time here with my love one and friends I definitely coming back worth every penny

Manzo offers some pretty tasty food, but in general it was a disappointing experience.
Came here on a Wednesday night. It didn’t seem that busy and the host/​hostess passed by several times but it still took at least five minutes for one of the host to notice me and seat me down for bar seating. From there, it took another three or four minutes before I was given a menu. Then I experienced an astronomical wait for a RAW appetizer.
I ordered the Carpaccio Di Mantro, which took more than 30 minutes to be served. The dish was pretty decent, but nothing spectacular. The beef was not seasoned evenly as some slices were more salty than the others. The watercress and cheese helped to bring some flavor to the meat, but the citrus vinaigrette was not prominent enough. The dish could have a brighter note.
Next up was the Petto D’Anatra (Pan-​seared Long Island Duck Breast). Thankfully, this dish came quite quickly after I was done with the app or else I would have been one unhappy camper. This dish was the star of the night, and brought my experience from an aggravated one to a semi-​satisfying one. The duck breast was perfectly cooked, with each piece being precisely medium rare. They were tender and extremely juicy. The pan sauce which it was served with was savory and warming, making the dish comforting. The re-​hydrated prunes provided contrast to the dish. It was excellent.
The customer service was quite poor as I had a long wait to get seated and also had a tremendous wait for the appetizer to come out. I also noticed that the waiter was more attentive to the Caucasian solo sitting next to me and his dishes came out within 10 minutes of ordering. I’ll let you decide for yourself if it’s discrimination or if their customer service is just simply lacking.
I wish I could give this restaurant a higher rating because the food rates higher than a 3, but at this time, I cannot.

Every year, my Mom takes my sibs and I to New York City to kick off the holiday season. This year was no different, although I wanted to be sure we had an excellent meal. Manzo was fabulous. Eataly itself is wonderful and this cozy, wonderful place is excellent. We shared appetizers — potato fritters and burrata, the latter being the front runner. I had pasta, as did my sister. Both were phenomenal — our server was wonderful as well, accommodating our request for no nuts on anything.
It was the perfect place!

One of the sit down restaurants within Eataly
They offer several apps, pasta disher, and a entrée menu.
You can also try to pasta tasting menu, which has an optional wine pairing.
I believe the price was $ 75 for the pasta + $ 50 for the wine.
You can also order a la carte.
Popular to sit at the first come first serve bar area.
You can order a glass of wine or beer here and also any of the food options also available at the dinning room tables.
Prices are rounded up, as you are paying a premium to sit down.
The other options are to grab high tops in the secretions throughout Eataly and sample what each are has to offer. Which includes the nutella bar, Salumi & Formaggi counter, and a vegan veggie counter, sandwich station, chocolates and desserts, and café… to name a few.
TIP: Asked to be seated in the dinning area enclosed on the far left side on the room for a more restaurant atmosphere.

The restaurant on a whole actually is 3 ½ stars in my opinion, due to a lack of space and slow service at times. Furthermore, there pasta dishes do not blow me away in any form. Also, due the tight space, there is not much ambiance here, but they did well with the steakhouse feel.
However, 2 things stand out here.
1. It’s location inside of eataly is unique. I enjoy this concept place as a part of eataly. Eataly has multiple concept restaurants– and this is their meat centered one, that feels like a steakhouse and is supposed to be more formal than the others.
2. The duck here is the best duck entrée I have ever had. ⁵⁄₅ dish that bumps up the stars to a 4 star total. Moist, perfectly balanced sauce, perfectly executed duck. My best friend and I like to come here at random times of the day, whenever we crave duck.
If you do venture, please get the duck. (I hope you see the recurring theme here.)

This may be fair… may not be fair… but we came here for lunch last week and weren’t too impressed. The service was fine, but my wife ended up getting beef Tartar. She likes a culinary experience, but when it showed up she looked at me and whispered, «It doesn’t even look cooked!»
I hadn’t’ heard what she had ordered and asked,“Well, what did you order???”
(Wife) «Beef Tartar»
(Husband) «Baby, that’s supposed to be raw…»
(Wife) «…oh. I didn’t know…»
So being the brave foodies we are, we both took a couple bites. I personally have had beef Tartar before and it was good. This was just a pile of ground beef. Really unappetizing. I love sushi but think if someone gave me a pile of ground salmon, I wouldn’t take very lightly to it either. The garnish was lacking in flavor too. I think we ate it wrong or something because if someone has to explain why something tastes good… that means it’s not.
I ordered the gnocchi, and again, I don’t know if I’m being unfair in my review, but I’ve had some good gnocchi before. This was not it. The dumplings were harder than they should be and the sauce was not up to par. Whomever made it needs a talking to. Whoever approved of it needs to have their palette checked.
So, half of the blame falls on us for the ordering, but really, anything you order should be delicious, shouldn’t it? We only ate half our dishes and left to share a panini. That was probably the least amount of food I have ever eaten for 50 bucks.

I was nervous to come to Eataly on a Saturday night, figuring it would be crowded and much to my dismay it was. I was able to put my name in for a table for 2 people at the Pizza/​Pasta section and at Manzo (the fine dining area of Eataly). I was told the wait for Pizza/​Pasta was an 1 hour and 30 minutes and the wait at Manzo was 40 minutes. Both hostesses took my phone number and told me they would would send an automated text when my table was ready. My date and I walked around and went up to the beer garden upstairs to get a drink and kill time. Before we could finish our first drink, I received a text from Manzo that our table was ready.
For dinner, we ordered a bottle of wine to share ($ 33), the gnocchi and the «Tagliata di Manzo» aka the New York strip steak. The gnocchi is made in house (Mario Batali wouldn’t have it any other way) and topped with a spicy tomato sauce. It was mouthwateringly amazing and we didn’t want the dish to end. It was savory and delicious and I still have dreams about it. We didn’t think anything could top the gnocchi until we got the Tagliata di Manzo. This NY strip steak came with potatoes was in a mushroom and oxtail sauce. After we had finished eating, we used the bread to soak up the sauce that was left on our plate because it was that good.

Hubby and I came to NYC for our 2 year anniversary. We’d never been to Eataly before and were happily surprised with everything we found. It is possibly the only place I’ve ever seen where customers are drinking glasses of wine while grocery shopping! We ended up eating at Manzo actually accidentally. The host sort of called us over to take a look at the menu and because we didn’t have to wait for a table we decided to eat here.
First, service is impeccable. We were travelling with our 4.5 month old son and they arranged for a high chair for him and stowed our stroller somewhere safe (like a stroller check as we got a number for it).
We ordered:
Beef carpaccio for our antipasti to share. This was so delicious! The best carpaccio we’ve ever had. It came with parmigiano reggiano and watercress and the combination with the carpaccio was amazing.
We decided to share the primi and ordered the pappardelle. The pappardelle was perfect. It was homemade and cooked to a perfect al dente. It was served with a delicious sauce with pork shoulder and radicchio.
For our secondi we ordered the dry aged 32 oz ribeye for two. We actually had to wait quite a while to get the main course but it was well worth the wait. They actually brought out the entire ribeye after it had been cooked to show us before they sliced it up. The steak was cooked perfectly (we like it medium rare). The meat was ridiculously tender. Just cutting into the meat you could tell how tender it was. This was by far one of the best steaks we’ve ever had. It was expensive at $ 105 but since it’s meant for two people it wasn’t ridiculously expensive and was very much well worth the cost.
We decided to get dessert at the nutella station at Eataly instead but we definitely enjoyed our meal at Manzo. We’ve spent a lot more money at other restaurants and definitely had poorer quality food and the fact that we accidentally stumbled upon this gem was an even more pleasant surprise. We’d definitely come back the next time we’re in NYC but I’d also like to check out some of the other restaurants at Eataly as well.

Loved most of the food — hated the restaurant…
We go through Eataly and it is packed with happy people — plenty of noise and laughter. And it all changes as we enter Manzo — it is empty. We are just about the only people having dinner.
I dont understand until we meet our waiter and start ordering.
May I have a diet coke? «No we don’t serve that.»
Do you have any off menu specials? «No we don’t.»
Can I have a half order of pasta as an appetizer? «No we don’t allow that.»
The $ 105 rib steak for 2 comes with brocolli rabe — may I substitute something else? «No, we don’t allow substitutions.»
At that point I give up. I’m not talking to a waiter. I’m talking to a robot. He has his instructions and they are to not make changes.
I now understand why the place is devoid of diners — it’s just not fun. It really is joyless.
Except for an awful bread basket the food is very good. But at this price point I can get the same meal at dozens of restaurants where they will give me a diet coke, a small pasta appetizer, and a vegetable other than brocolli rabe.
Maybe there will even be 1 or 2 specials.

We accidentally took the wrong train uptown instead of downtown and were almost an hour late to our reservation, but they were still able to seat us. Yay!
We had the pappardelle and gnocchi, both were pretty good. We had cocktails as well, my friend couldn’t find one she liked on the menu so the server suggested she choose one of the virgin ones and add vodka and she really liked it. Our server was not that attentive but she was busy with others, we had to ask other workers for refills on cocktails and stuff. Other than that, this place was a great experience especially since we were able to walk around and browse Eataly afterwards.
A bit pricey, but worth it — especially if you have reservations. Beats waiting in a line for other spots in Eataly. I believe this one’s the only one that takes reservations in Eataly?

The reservations God we’re looking out for me this day! We snagged a great table at Manzo during NYC restaurant week. It was a quiet romantic table in the back away from the hustle of Eataly. We had a lovely wait staff who took care of everything we needed and the food was great Italian fair.
The menu is small so we both started with the mozzarella and heirloom tomatoes. It was fresh and the tomatoes were sweet. The mozzarella was soft and creamy and seasoned perfectly.
The amuse Bouche was a panzanella salad. The bread salad was okay it was very garlicky. I would have passed on this.
For the entrée we order the short rib and polenta and a side of roasted mushrooms. The short rib was tender and juicy with a great sauce. The polenta was luscious. I just loved it. The mushrooms were crisp and seasoned to the tee.
We had a chocolate pot de crime with a caramel sauce? It was really good .
I really loved this restaurant. Can’t wait to come back to try the whole menu!

Shout out to Jeff K. and Spencer J. for coming out to the far side of Manhattan so I don’t have to dine by my lonesome. It’s so much fun to finally meet these two homies in person.
This restaurant is located towards the back part of Eataly and although the place was full on a Sunday afternoon, we were seated within 20 — 30 minutes. It was also nice of them to text us when our table was ready that way we could walk around the store instead of standing by the entrance, looking forlornly hungry.
Service was friendly and fast. The place was dimly lit and sectioned off from the rest of Eataly giving it a more romantic and private feel even if it was mid afternoon.
Spencer had Linguine with lobster which I didn’t even give a second of my time.
I had the duck and it was good. However, my review for the dish won’t give it justice since I am not really into duck meat unless if we’re talking about Peking duck. Suffice to say it was plated beautifully, cooked perfectly and my two gentleman companions said it was good.
The prime rib is an entirely different story. They bring it out for you to admire prior to cutting it into smaller pieces. It is enough for 2 – 3 people. We didn’t see any sides listed on their menu but I completely forgot about any thought of sides when I took my first bite. Oh, joy. Perfectly cooked and seasoned. I was ready to wrestle the plate from Jeff and just let him have my duck but that wouldn’t have ended well for me, so I didn’t.
Any food that makes me forget about white rice is exemplary in my book. I’d definitely come back for the prime rib.

Não gostei achei os pratos muito pequenos e muito caro a comida é razoável nada de mais faltou tempero ao prato.

After being told it would be at least an hour wait at both the veggie and fish oriented restaurants at Eataly we walked right into a table at Manzo, the meat oriented restaurant. That was a wonderful surprise. It’s hard to imagine why Manzo had empty tables except that it is a little hidden and it is a little more expensive than the other two.
Anyway, all three of us had pastas with meat sauces that were each fantastic. My wife and my daughter each started off with green salads and I began with some of the best sweetbreads that I’ve ever had.
To finish off we had an amazing cheese platter with five wonderful Italian cheeses. And, I have to add that the wine list had a number of great affordable Italians along with the usual $ 80+ bottles, but you don’t need to spend that. Though you might need help from the sommelier because the list is very long and very Italian.
So, go here.

I came to Eataly for my birthday, and our table for La Pizza and La Pasta was going to be an hour’s wait. So Stephen, Kris and I decided to get a drink at the bar in Manzo.
The bartender was nice, but not every attentive. It took a while to get her attention, and we decided to share a white frizzante wine. For the most part, she left us alone. We had to track her down to close the tab when our other table was ready.
Quite honestly, we could probably had walked out. I went to get our table at La Pizza, and it took Stephen and Kris quite some time before they caught up to us at the other location (next door!).

Muy buena comida y ambiente. Barra ideal para uno o para tomar un trago mientras se espera la mesa. La atención puede mejorar. Todo muy italiano pero con sabores muy caseros. Ideal para una comida relajada

I arrived right at noon when they opened for lunch, without a reservation. It was completely empty, and I opted to sit at the bar for this solo meal. The bartender was attentive and made suggestions for me. I opted for a fall type cocktail — pear or apple or something, and it was delicious.
I ordered the BARBABIETOLE ARROSTITE (a beet salad) and it was seriously the best beet dish I’ve ever had! SO good.
I also had the ARROSTO DI MANZO (short rib dish) and it was fantastic! Cooked perfectly with lots of flavor. The polenta served with it was wonderful as well.
It wasn’t a cheap meal by any means, but it was worth it! I would definitely go back again & wish they would open one in Baltimore!

There is no shortage of great restaurants in NYC, but our lunch at Manzo has to be one of the best ones I have had in the city. We ended up eating here to kind of escape the $hitshow that was happening at Eataly. All of the other venues were in the middle of the space and extremely loud, so when we saw that Manzo was semi-​secluded we checked out the place on Unilocal!and decided it was worth a try. We did not have reservations but were seated right away.
First off the service here was awesome. From the host to the bussers, to the server, these guys had their game on. Fast, courteous, and efficient.
We started off with the carpaccio which melted in your mouth like butter. I had the Vesuvio de Gragnano which is Afeltra Vesuvio, Broccoli Rabe Pesto & Sweet Italian Sausage Ragù. The green sauce was definitely visually surprising, but the flavors in this dish are on point. The pasta was cooked an amazing al dente and the rich rabe & pesto were a killer compliment to the sweet sausage.
As much as I loved my dish, I have to say my wife’s was even better. She had the Tortelloni which is freshly made and comes with Diamond Creek Ranch Braised Beef & Pickled Brown Beech Mushroom. All I can say is WOW. This is a rich, decadent dish that makes me hungry just thinking about it. The pasta of course is awesome but the earthy brown sauce and mushrooms are absolutely delicious with the braised beef.
Although we were thoroughly stuffed we were drinking so why not have some dessert? The Bomboloni are fancy doughnuts that come with with Cinnamon Sugar & Vanilla Gelato. These little calorie bombs were the perfect ending to our meal.
We thoroughly enjoyed a relaxing lunch here with some glasses of wine and cocktails. It was definitely a welcome relief from the hustle and bustle of the rest of Eataly.