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Manna Bakery

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09/02/2026

Here’s our pop up schedule for September! From now on, we will be doing Rittenhouse Farmers Market every Saturday!🥳We will not be at Clark Park in September, but we are aiming to return in October!

08/27/2026

There’s a delicious little piece of café history hiding in this glass. It’s called Mazagran. 🍋☕️

Now available at the Manna Bakery storefront! We’re bringing you drinks with history.

Espresso lemonade is often linked to Algeria and the French café culture that developed there during the colonial era in the 1840s. The combination of strong coffee and bright citrus may sound unusual today, but in North African café culture, coffee and refreshing lemon drinks have long been part of the landscape.
The exact origin of the modern espresso-lemonade drink isn’t firmly documented, so the story that the French invented it in Algeria is best treated as a fascinating piece of culinary lore rather than proven fact.
Either way, the result is brilliant: bold espresso + tart, teta’s orange blossom lemonade + a little ice = refreshing.
It’s also important to acknowledge that this history exists within the much more complicated and painful history of French colonialism in Algeria. Sharing the story of a drink is not meant to romanticize, celebrate, or erase that history. We can appreciate the evolution of food and drink while still recognizing the people, cultures, and histories shaped by colonialism—and the harm that came with it. This is about exploring culinary history.

08/11/2026

This is how we all feel at Manna Bakery after all the love we have received during the first 2 weeks❤️ We finally have a place to call home, but the farmers market pop ups are still part of our spirit! We will be open again on Thursday at 7am!

Shukran شكراً
“Thank you”

Narakum Qareeban ًنراكم قريبا
“See you soon”

08/04/2026

‼️UPDATED STORE HOURS‼️
Thursday & Friday: 7am - 3pm
Saturday & Sunday: 8am - 3pm

Thank you all for the amazing turn out during our opening week! I cannot describe how much this all means to me and the entire team bringing this all to life. We can’t wait to welcome more of you into our home. We’re going to be open 4 days a week now! We will slowly be expanding our days and hours in the near future! When you walk in during our first hour of opening, expect to see a couple of pastries still missing from the display. Since we bake everything fresh, baked goods don’t come out from the oven all at the same time. Therefore, the first hour of opening is dedicated to the final act. Crafting the last few pastries and bringing them all the way to you at the counter.

Shukran for all the love. We are just getting started❤️
شكراً

📸: Michael Persico

07/30/2026

Our Farmers Markets continue! Our storefront will be open, but we will never abandon where we started!

07/28/2026

Manna Bakery is opening its doors this week! Here are the current hours! Our farmers market pop ups will remain!

Thursday & Friday 7am - 3pm
Saturday 8am - 3pm

For all of you tagging along at this moment in time, let me give you a little backstory on how we got here. I started cooking at the age of 8. My baba = father brought me into the kitchen to help him make breakfast on the weekends. I’d crack the eggs and whisk the pancake batter. I’d stand next to him and watch the batter rise into fluffy mounds. To keep me engaged, he would feed me the little burnt bits that he scraped off the edges of the pancakes. Those were the best parts!

In the summers, I visited my tetas = grandmas. I watched them make eveybting from scratch. I ate everything too. The smells and sights of the kitchen made me fall in love with the art of cooking. Food represented community and happiness in teta’s house. The positive emotion that formed around the table when food was served was probably the catalyst for me to consider cooking as my passion.

Manna Bakery wasn’t always this popular. It started out as a little table I would set up randomly on the side walk to sell my baked goods. For every 10 people I attempted to persuade, 8 of them would say no. However, that did not deter me because resilience is acquired through challenge. Much like the dandelion in our logo, I found a way to germinate.

My baba had a small framed picture hanging in his office. It read “a river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence”. I used to read it every single time I’d visit my baba at work. He would always remind me that you become what you think about all day long. I did become what I thought about all day long. I became persistent.

If you scroll to the last picture on the slide, it was a random photo my baba took of us standing in front of a random cafe in Austria. He joked that it was my future restaurant. If you look closely it says delicatessen cafe. Couldn’t be more accurate. Life has its ways.

I am a storyteller. Food is my medium. Thank you all for your support. It means the world to me. What’s the point of a book if there’s no reader? ❤️

07/01/2026

Ahlan W Sahlan! And just like that it’s the middle of summer! This announcement is to indicate our transition into the July menu!

This upcoming weekend, we will be at different spots at farmers markets at Rittenhouse & Headhouse. Please keep an eye out for our Instagram stories that will guide you to where we are! Also, we will be doing preorders for this Saturday and Sunday!! People will be picking up from our storefront that will have our new sign hanging outside. We are almost there!

Menu inspirations include tomato, spiced fennel, beets, coffee cardamom also known as Qahwa, sour cherries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, pistachios and fig leaves! We are going all out to try and feature as much as we can from the produce that’s coming in!

Also, for all the chicken sumac bun loyalists, we will be replacing it with a Dajaj Batata (chicken potato) bun made with turmeric, garlic confit and a burst of lemon. A pastry inspired by a dish teta would make constantly. Sinniyet Batata w Dajaj, which is a chicken potato tray bake. Trust me it’s going to be delicious 😋

📍Rittenhouse Farmers Market: 1800 Walnut St

📍Headhouse Farmers Market: 2nd St and Lombard St

📍Clark Park Farmers Market: 4300 Baltimore Ave

📍Alchemy Coffee (in Rittenhouse): 119 S 21st St

06/22/2026

Happy Father’s Day. It is certainly not the same without baba with us. I decided to post a couple of videos and a picture to share my baba.

In the first video, my mom is asking him whose banana bread is better and he responds “of course Saif”, while he continues to eat the one she made. I thought it was funny. It was my baba’s typical humor. He was always proud of what I did.

The second video is him tasting one of my cookies, specifically the triple chocolate. My mom had visited me in Philadelphia because I was graduating from college. I sent her back home with some cookies and my dad was eating one in the morning and praising how good it was. He was saying that it had been a while since he ate my cookies, so it tasted even better.

The last pic is baba proudly taking a picture with my mom’s tiramisu. She made it for my youngest brother’s birthday. You can clearly see my dad loved to eat. He throughly enjoyed it. He passed the love he had for food on to me.

We grow up thinking our parents are immortal. We take them for granted. Everyone has to go at some point. Thank you baba for leaving beautiful memories. I just wish you were here to try more of what I make❤️

06/19/2026

Whoever is missing out on Yas’s Pistachio Cake, get it before it’s gone! It has a hint of citrus to cut through the richness of pistachio. Followed by cardamom along with rose and orange blossom. It has such a delicate soft crumb because we mill the pistachio flour ourselves. The cherry on top or in this case the pistachio on top is a creamy pistachio cremeux made from Sicilian pistachios. Topped with an extra handful of pistachios and crushed damask rose.

Yas is now a dear friend, but at first we started out as strangers. I was dropping off a box of pastries for her neighbor, the multi time James Beard Award winning Nok, when she invited me in for tea. At first, I graciously refused. However, she insisted. In Arab culture, when someone insists more than twice then it is a genuine invite and it would be rude to decline. Therefore, I accepted her offer and sat on her deck for some tea.

I have to be honest though, it wasn’t just her persistence that got me through the door. She mentioned that she would brew a delicious pot of rose and cardamom tea. How could I refuse?! Fast forward a few tea meetings later, she baked a delicious rose pistachio cardamom cake. When I tasted it, she asked “delicious right?” I obviously said yes because it was. I then said, I think I can make it better😅 Not as an insult to the delicious cake, but rather it is in my nature to see things and attempt to improve or elevate them. This cake made it to the menu only after Yas herself stated that it is indeed an improvement on hers. Anyway, Yas LOVES anything with pistachio rose cardamom. Now you have the whole story. A brief summary of it exists on the parchment menu, but I thought you guys needed to know the whole thing. If you haven’t tried Yas’s pistachio cake, you now know that you have her blessing to do so.

06/18/2026

A little bit of a pop up schedule update! We will be having 2 pop ups on Saturday and ZERO pop ups on Sunday.

At the Rittenhouse Market, ONLY FOR THIS TIME, we will be located by Parc on 18th Street !!

Address

1324 N Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA
19121

Telephone

+12247696933

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