{"id":78068,"date":"2025-12-22T16:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T16:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/78068\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T16:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T16:42:09","slug":"manhatto-brings-globally-influenced-japanese-cuisine-to-hells-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/78068\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhatto Brings Globally-Influenced Japanese Cuisine to Hell\u2019s Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hell\u2019s Kitchen knows a comeback story when it sees one. Manhatto, the newest restaurant to land on 9th Avenue, isn\u2019t just another opening \u2014 it\u2019s a return to familiar ground for a team with deep neighborhood roots.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Manhatto team are no strangers to Hell\u2019s Kitchen with Veerapat (second from left) previously managing Thai restaurant Room Service. Photo: Brennan LaBrie<\/p>\n

Opened earlier this month in the former Shin Rokko space, Manhatto blends elevated, modern approaches to Japanese cuisine with global influences. The goal is to offer Hell\u2019s Kitchen diners a cuisine that is innovative but accessible, said manager Veerapat Rugsasataya.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is, I would say, a party area,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople are not here to get educated; they\u2019re here just to have fun and eat the food that they\u2019re familiar with \u2013 not too complicated, but not too simple. I think we\u2019re right in between that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Veerapat knows the neighborhood well \u2013 he previously managed Room Service, a Thai restaurant on 9th Avenue and W49th Street. In fact, that\u2019s where he met the three men with whom he\u2019d go on to open Manhatto. When Room Service shuttered during the pandemic<\/a>, they parted ways, but eyed returning to Hell\u2019s Kitchen with a restaurant of their own one day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe came back here because we love the neighborhood \u2013 and we shared a lot of good memories here back in the day,\u201d Veerapat said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\nThe interior of Manhatto has a minimalist design common in Japan. Photos: Brennan LaBrie<\/p>\n

Manhatto could have easily been a Thai restaurant. After all, three of the four partners specialize in the cuisine, including Pannavit Wongsung, who managed the former 9th Avenue Thai spot Taladwat. But the chef among them, Jaroenpol Wibulchan, is also trained in Japanese cooking, and opened Izakaya Fuku in Jackson Heights. His partners decided to challenge themselves with a Japanese concept.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe needed to learn something different,\u201d Veerapat said. \u201cAll the ingredients are pretty new to us, but since we have a chef with strong experience, we can learn it better that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

The burrata is crowned with katsuobushi \u2013 dried, fermented and smoked skipjack tuna flakes \u2013 which, along with pickled ginger, adds a kick to the sweetness of balsamic vinaigrette, grapes, strawberries and cherry tomato.<\/p>\n

The uni mentai pasta offers a flashy spin on spaghetti \u2013 a spiral of noodles cooked in a creamy cod-roe sauce with spicy mayo and topped with snow crab, nori, salmon roe and uni. You can even pair it with a caesar salad, which is tossed in a sweet yuzu-ponzu dressing.<\/p>\n

\"Manhatto\"Burrata with katsuobushi, pickled ginger and balsamic vinaigrette and uni mentai pasta in a creamy cod-roe sauce with spicy mayo, topped with snow crab, nori, salmon roe and uni. Photo: Brennan LaBrie<\/p>\n

While the fusion dishes pop out from the menu \u2013 see the croissant filled with eel and teriyaki sauce \u2013 Manhatto offers staples of an upscale Japanese restaurant, from sushi and sashimi to donburi bowls. But even these dishes come with flair \u2013 the ramen, for example, comprises A5 Wagyu beef in truffle shoyu broth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Veerapat recommends guests try the uni mentai pasta, or the 12-ounce ribeye steak with fried rice. For sushi, he suggests the miso butter roll, which includes crab meat, seaweed powder, onion, asparagus, fried shallot and miso butter sauce.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Vegans can opt for the Hell\u2019s Kitchen Roll with sweet potato tempura, pickled radish, shiitake, white seaweed, chive and curry mayo.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Manhatto, located at 783 9th Avenue between W52nd and W53rd Streets, is open 12-3:30pm and 5-10pm on Sunday through Thursday and 12-3:30pm and 5-11pm on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hell\u2019s Kitchen knows a comeback story when it sees one. Manhatto, the newest restaurant to land on 9th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,1886,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-78068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newcomers","14":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}