El Manaba

341 St Nicholas Ave, Ridgewood
(718) 638-7000

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Jay Garcia Murillo

First at all this place should never be called (EL MANABA) in Manabí we don’t have places like this. Paid 57 dollars for a cubetazo 6 beers. Place needs an update asap. Bathroom is disgusting. Servers didn’t know what she was doing. One star is too much. And if you use your credit card they charge you 5 dollars extra. Saw the food being served and it doesn’t look edible. This place needs to be updated with new owner or closed . And bottle service goes for $250. NOT RECOMENDED DONT GO .

Andrea Vera

We arrived and there was no one to help us, she was busy inside, but other than that, very friendly and always with a smile 😄, the place is clean, the door that goes to the bathroom is a little scary because it sounds very hard but the rest everything was fine

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 4

Luis Loja

The food is very bad, I would not recommend it although it has a good presentation, the food is not fresh, I ordered a breaded shrimp and they came with 6 shrimp with 2 kilos of dough and 1 liter of oil, I had to spend 10 minutes removing the extra dough. I think this place is more of a bar than a restaurant 🍸 the only good thing was the juices.

As for the premises, it is a very spacious place but the bathrooms are in terrible condition.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 1

Service: 3

Monica Parra

The worst Ecuadorian food, lunch has no flavor. Bean soup is like a stew with water. I really felt scammed don't go

Carlos Curay

More or less for my taste

Food: 2

Any Lu

Definitely this place is not to sit down and eat with the family, the food is very bad, terrible, I do not recommend, rather they should put a billiards something since as a restaurant, nothing to see makes Ecuadorian food look bad.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

Allan Delgado

Nice place to share with friends and remember party times inour land

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

carlos torrez

When this restaurant started it was a very cozy place because it was owned by another person and that person knew how to run his business. The food was good. The service was good. It was a good atmosphere. But after the owner, I don't know what happened. The food is not the same and It looks very Expensive for the quality of the food. Based on my experience, I will not return to that place again because there are better places where you can pay for what you eat and good service. Based on my experience, I will not return there again. I do not recommend it.

DJ Francisco Primera

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Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Encebollado de Pescado Curtido

Vini GuGavi

Terrible Service, Terrible Food, Terrible Atmosphere.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

M. Wilson

Absolutely the worst Ecuadorian food I've ever had here in NYC. I ordered the chaulafan. It was dry and full of salt. All the meat and shrimp tasted like it was at least a week old. I guess they used the salt to hide the old dried out meat. And then there's the confusion with the check. So the chaulafan was 25 dollars!!! A word of advice, don't ever come here for the food. Just dance and maybe a few beers. So we have 2 different waiters one for the food and one for the drinks. Not sure what kind of scam they are doing at this place but they seem like they add drinks on to your drink bill and hope you're too drunk to realize. Just be very attentive to what this place is doing with the drink waiters. Extremely hard pass on this establishment.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 1

Service: 2

Ecuatoriano Blog

Excellent and the best I recommend the Manaba restaurant.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Empanadas Manabitas

sophia alvarez

me and my family came to eat here , the service was good , the food on the other hand no so great. i ordered a fried egg with fried yuca and when i bit into the yuca it gave me a mouthful of oil, very unpleasant and when i asked to get it done again they looked at me like i was a crazy person. my step dad ordered the fried fish and plátanos , the plátanos as well came out with a lot of oil . my mother enjoyed her food but overall there’s better places .

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 2

Lino Ramos

Was. My first day visiting this restaurant and I really recommend it, the food is very delicious, it has the flavor of home. And the family atmosphere is very pleasant, the service is the best all the time, there is attention, you don't want to leave there because everything is quite organized. I recommend this place. visit it

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Chavas Onta

We ordered girl chicken salad to take out to my surprise only had few slices of chicken seems the chicken flew

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

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