Dinner in SoHo at Manuela NYC
Reserve your table at Manuela, where we serve dinner every evening in the heart of SoHo from 5pm to 10pm. Enjoy seasonal plates cooked over the wood-fired grill and charcoal oven, served in a dining room full of site-specific art. It’s a convivial, unpretentious space to catch up with friends, celebrate an occasion, or simply enjoy a proper night out, with dishes built for sharing and art worth lingering over
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Our Dinner Menu
At Manuela, the kitchen works around a wood-fired grill and charcoal oven, turning market-based, locally sourced produce into dishes that are honest, unpretentious, and delicious. Our dinner menu focuses on the freshest high-quality produce around, so whether you’re after the 26oz dry-aged NY strip or the ricotta gnocchi with morels and English peas, everything on the table reflects what’s actually in season right now.
It’s part of what sets Manuela apart from other dinner spots in SoHo: the sourcing isn’t just a line on the menu. All our food is locally sourced, not just described that way. The menu changes with what’s actually available from the market, so a dish you order in summer won’t be the one you find on the table come fall. That same commitment extends beyond the plate as Manuela is proud to partner with Project EATS, the community food organization that supports six urban gardens across the city’s five boroughs.
Between the seasonal cooking and the sourcing story behind it, Manuela has quietly become one of the more thoughtful restaurants in SoHo for dinner.
A restaurant in SoHo with a difference
Dinner at Manuela is unlike anywhere else in SoHo, not just for the menus, but for the art you’re sitting among while you eat. Every table sits inside a room shaped by eight New York artists working closely with the restaurant over eighteen months: Mika Rottenberg’s mushroom-shaped chandelier hangs low over the bar, Rashid Johnson’s mosaic table anchors the private dining room, and Pat Steir’s mural runs the length of one wall. Mary Heilmann’s tile tabletops, Uman’s technicolor paintings, and Lorna Simpson’s Quiet Storm each add their own note to the room.
Beyond the commissions, our walls hold a rotating collection of paintings and works on paper by artists with ties to SoHo itself, from Louise Bourgeois’ bronze Spider II to pieces by George Condo, Philip Guston, Nicolas Party, and Cindy Sherman. As New York Magazine put it, Manuela is “a farm-to-table gallery for hungry collectors.”
The collection keeps evolving, too; recent Journal features have covered Philip Guston’s paintings and drawings, Franz Gertsch’s woodcuts, and an ongoing community poster project with Allison Katz.