No one said chicken gizzards were going to be pretty.
The same might be said for Manna's itself. But simmered with onion, celery, and green pepper, those muscular sections of the digestive tract (top photo, at upper right) were savory, chewy but not rubbery, and without even a hint of funky flavor (I'm lookin' at you, chitlins).
Gizzards were a special the weekend I dropped in, but seven days a week, you'll find a double rank of regularly replenished steam-table provisions including (above) very sweet candied yams, leafy collard greens with turkey meat, crusted-over mac and cheese, and (below) banana pudding with fat slices of banana plus vanilla wafers (all $5.49 per pound).
Manna's Soul Food Restaurant
2331 Frederick Douglas Blvd. (125th-126th Sts.)
(one of several locations)
212-749-9084
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