I would listen to tango music and cook. I wanted to have the feeling of being back where you were little and food is the connection. The day's menu is listed on the board in the rear of the restaurant, next to the refrigerated case, where the items are displayed. Cafe Manet features several homemade pastas, meat, chicken, seafood entrees and salads. The dough for the ravioli is rolled by hand, using a rolling pin, laid over square ravioli molds, filled and cut.
Popular varieties are goat cheese, chicken and artichokes.
Another popular specialty is the flaky beef or chicken empanadas, which are Spanish style turnovers. Among the entrees, seafood or chicken paella, lamb stew a l'orange, eggplant parmigiana and cannelloni are favorites with the customers. Grynberg said he remembers, as a child, his father would occasionally treat him to a sample of red wine with dinner, liberally diluted with soda water from the siphon bottle that sat on the table. He pointed out that in Europe and South America, wine is not just for special occasions. The wines they drink every day are pretty good and relatively inexpensive.