“This Is DELICIOUS!” | Alex Tuch And Jillian Hanesworth Visit Manna @ Northland

“This Is DELICIOUS!” | Alex Tuch And Jillian Hanesworth Visit Manna @ Northland

Hey guys this is Alex St with the Buffalo Savers I’m here at Mana in Northland toet my friend Jillian hanesworth and have some lunch today we are here to eat as much as we possibly can we’re going to try some of my favorites and I’m really excited to see

If Alex likes it hi what’s up how you doing how you been I’m good how are you good to see you it’s been a while oh it has been they sent me the menu and I was like oh I mean over my head like please like someone many options there’s so

Many options there’s a huge menu and every single thing is good like I’ve never had something and was like I won’t get this again like everything is like I’m going to I’m going to get this tomorrow it’s like a go-to spot for you it is I call it my office jokingly cuz I

Take meetings here like I have a little table in the corner and I’ll just stay here for hours yeah this place is like a staple so many people come to Northland for like training there’s a bank here a lot of community events so this restaurant they they really feed like

The east side of Buffalo so you going to tell like do I have a preview or you are you going to wait for it to come out I do you want it to be a surprise or do you want me to tell you I I I like I I

Say that I eat almost anything yeah but you grew up Itali you’re Italian so you know how it feels to like get food that come straight from somebody’s heart like yeah so that’s that’s what we’re about to eat oh here it comes I’m coming out with chicken and waffle and and fried P

Out green beans our signature cornbread and you can’t come to Mana without trying our shrimp and grits okay this is something I’ve never tried I’ve never had Shimp and grits I don’t know where to start you go first I might just okay have you ever heard of the

Itis no what’s that the itis is what you get after you eat a lot of food and you get sleepy syrup syrup on your waffle on the waffle not on the chicken though if you like if I okay I’m going to try it on the chicken I’m going to do the hot

Sauce on the green beans so I’m going to follow your lead on that it’s a pro tip that’s nice I really like that I really don’t know what to start with I’m going to I’m going to try the mac and cheese first it’s so good isn’t it told you I

Feel So Satisfied watching you enjoy it because I was like hyping it up like a yeah there’s not going to be much left of this you know we we eat like uh grandama and them mus to feed yeah you know you always go to your grandmother house Mama cooked on Sundays but on

Holidays you would go to Grandmother’s house and that’s the fortunate part that we have that we’re doing here at man it’s it’s it’s it’s a home feeling they going home saying mama you got to eat some of this food this is great for this is unbelievable the menu is casual eating

Comfortable eating family style friendly conversation at the table the name of the restaurant Mana Regal we were sitting around the dinner table trying to name the restaurant and I yelled mana and our other partners said at North so our goal is to be wherever we go Mana at

So right now this is our first location Mana at Northland looking to continue growing to be Mana at so we’ve brought a flare of Louisiana here we’re changing pallets here on the east side so we we’re doing a a a touch that people look for forward to stepping out to have

Something different so how long have you guys been working together well and how did you guys like start this together start your journey well we started off um had our own catering company individual catering company if he had a job he couldn’t do he would call me a

Recommend me if I had one I recommend him couple of times we worked it together so when this opportunity came we were in the meeting we looked at each other said let’s talk and we’ve been running together ever since we’re about to celebrate 5 years this November right that’s awesome that’s that’s amazing

What what am I eating here yeah that’s a fried hat so how do you eat yours you put hot sauce on it yeah I put hot sauce on hot sauce on the fish hot sauce on Def hot sa hot sauce on the fish always hot sauce on the fish

Yeah yeah the breading so nice light yes yes wow yeah that’s that’s that’s what makes our fish and all our batters Reggie and I have come up with this batter that you don’t find anywhere else matter of fact we don’t teach any of our employees how to make it I wouldn’t

Either so it’s the it’s the cvy patty recipe yeah nobody knows it for you nobody knows it but us it’s a secret of of love when you have passion for your food you have passion for what you do it comes out it shows you know I look at

People plates I can tell if the food is good H you can CU I can look at your plate and then I I have some customers come and they chew on the bone mine’s been mine’s been empty twice so I’m going to fill it up again what is your

Favorite item on the menu my favorite Chef’s Choice item on the menu may be the shrimping grits yeah yeah that’s a good one that’s so good that is not what I thought it was going to be at all I didn’t know what to expect nice cream P yeah the the

Creaminess of it’s really yeah I was not expecting to be you was expecting that one huh so that means you got to come back Alex okay I’m coming back I’m going to put a little more of these yams cuz these I I can’t get enough of these well

Today you have the sweet peach sweet potato pie ooh it’s a sweet potato pie heated up with fresh peach cobbler on top what I have the ittis room I don’t got room for that no oh that’s good wow I’ve never had it oh that’s so

Good you guys did not come up short you she sold me on such high expectations and you blew them out of the water honestly I was I was unsure about a couple like the shrimping grits like I was like I don’t know if I’m really going to like shrimping grits I’ve never

Had it but I I loved it it was awesome yeah if you’re Sav fan you Haven been to Mana go to Mana this is again thank you so much always I love you Guys

In honor of Black History Month, Alex Tuch teamed up with Jillian Hanesworth, Buffalo Poet Laureate Emeritus, to visit Manna @ Northland. “Manna has food for the soul. They serve daily specials, fried or baked chicken and fish, Vegetarian options, fresh baked sweets, and have real chefs creating the experience. Dine in or order online.”

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