{"id":60643,"date":"2025-11-19T18:26:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T18:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/60643\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T18:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T18:26:06","slug":"manuela-review-cream-biscuits-and-other-southern-comforts-keep-this-arts-district-destination-in-the-brunch-rotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/60643\/","title":{"rendered":"Manuela Review: Cream Biscuits and Other Southern Comforts Keep This Arts District Destination in the Brunch Rotation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Plant-filled <a href=\"https:\/\/manuela-la.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manuela<\/a>, located inside the Hauser &amp; Wirth art gallery in the Arts District, offers a sunny atmosphere that stands out from its industrial neighborhood. The hyperseasonal restaurant sources from its own on-site organic garden as well as from small growers across Southern California for Southern comfort fare and vegetal cocktails featuring homemade bitters and tonics. The restaurant is known for its <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/maps\/best-essential-brunch-los-angeles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lively brunch scene<\/a>, but many of the same dishes can be found at lunch and dinner as well (looking at you, cream biscuits).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Think upscale garden party: The outside gallery includes commissioned artworks from artists like Paul McCarthy, Mark Bradford, and Raymond Pettibon. The on-site organic garden, which provides herbs and greens for the menu, surrounds the dining area, where skylights in the ceiling and supplementary string lights emit a warm glow in the otherwise concrete building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">The wine menu has been specifically curated to complement the acid and smoke at the core of the menu. My group all ordered different drinks for the first round, but the clear favorite was the earthy Archie, with beet-rested Illegal mezcal, Oro blanco, and lemon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Antsy kiddos will love watching the restaurant\u2019s chickens in the adjoining space. These cool gals even have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/chicksofmanuela\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their own Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plant-filled Manuela, located inside the Hauser &amp; Wirth art gallery in the Arts District, offers a sunny atmosphere&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28829,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-60643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-dining-reports","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-headlines","11":"tag-la-news","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","14":"tag-los-angeles-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}