Manhattan House back in plain sight [restaurant review]
Manhattan House general manager Sylvia Rho welcomes guests to her parking lot turned patio dining. Photo There are people who drive by Manhattan House every day and have never stopped in to see what they do. It’s easy to understand why this happens. There is speedy traffic most of the day at by the northwest corner of Sepulveda and Manhattan Beach boulevards, and the gaudy mural that is intended to advertise the place actually distracts people from reading their sign. You are likely to get more recognition by referring to it as “that building with the mural” than by using the restaurant’s name. It doesn’t help much that the place usually looks closed even when it’s open, thanks to small windows that make it impossible to tell whether there are people inside. That situation has changed due to the pandemic, which forced them to move their dining operations outside so that diners are in view of the street beneath sunshades. This higher visibility arrived at the same time as a new menu that narrows the variety of foods they offer as well as considerably dropping the price. Chef Juan Torres, who took over from Diana Stavaridis in late 2017, transitioned gradually from her hypermodern…
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