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Sufra Sunday is BACK! DCPFAF is proud to present the first in-person iteration of Sufra Sunday, a seasonal culinary experience highlighting Palestinian chefs and restaurants while connecting stories through personal and familial journeys, community, and food. Join us SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25 for a one day only Sufra Sunday Pop-Up spotlighting Executive Chef Saif Manna of Manna Bakery in Philadelphia. Come and enjoy a specially curated menu of pastries, cakes and cookies by Manna Bakery and drinks by Lulu’s Cafe starting at 10 AM ‘til sell out. Meet Chef Manna from 10 AM-11 AM. Yallah RSVP and join the Sufra! 🌎 Chef Mahmoud Almadhoun Memorial Patio (Lulu’s Cafe) 1922 I St NW, Washington, DC 20006 📆 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25 at 10:00 AM ET 🎫 RSVP at DCPFAF.org/2026 or link in bio 🇵🇸15% of all bakery pop-up sales will go toward projects dedicated to Palestinian food sovereignty and agricultural restoration. We recognize that the struggle to access food and the struggle for land restoration is ongoing.🇵🇸 #palestinianchef #chef #filmfestival #cafe #palestinianfood
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The pastry counter at Kensington’s Manna Bakery is lined with Palestinian- and Levantine-inspired pastries that connect owner Saif Manna with his culture. But the one specialty Manna feels closest to — the one that brings him back to his grandmother’s home in Jordan, where he spent his summers as a kid — is the za’atar manoushe. At the link in our bio, Manna shares the stories behind the intentionally sourced ingredients he uses to replicate the flavors of his childhood and celebrate Palestinian culinary traditions. 📷 : @ednewton 🖊️ : @kaelanisays
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Stills from article “A sweet success: Temple alum’s viral pastries find home in Fishtown bakery” for Temple News on Manna Bakery @mannabakery_philly @thetemplenews Thank you @chefsa1f for allowing me into your space. Delicious pastries and amazing people !
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@mannabakery_philly is a Halal Palestinian 🇵🇸 and Levantine third-culture bakery and café that has officially opened its first brick-and-mortar location in Fishtown 📍110 W. Berks St. Philadelphia PA @mannabakery_philly is founded by @chefsa1f Inspired by family kitchens, Palestinian traditions, and the flavors of the Levant, Saif began by baking cookies for friends before growing Manna into a beloved farmers market pop-up. Today, Manna serves creative sweet and savory bakes rooted in tradition and crafted with seasonal, high-quality ingredients—including imported Palestinian olive oil and za’atar. From comforting pastries to inventive treats, each offering reflects Saif’s culinary journey. After building a loyal following at markets around the city, Manna has officially opened its first brick-and-mortar location in Fishtown Currently open Thursday to Sunday Pull up and show them some love, you don’t want to miss this one #phillyhalalspots #mannabakery #palestinianbakery #levantine #halalbakery
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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”
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Celebrating one week of @mannabakery_philly by looking back on their incredible opening day. Your new favorite bakery is just around the corner 💫
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‼️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 📸: @persicophoto
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Congratulations @mannabakery_philly 🍪 Some of the freshest baked goods I’ve tried in the city, now open in Fishtown (110 W. Berks)! @chefsa1f farmers market pop-ups are known to draw lines, so don’t say I didn’t warn you now that he’s opening a shop! Who wants to go?
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@mannabakery_philly is my favorite pop-up bakery and today they are having their soft opening introducing their fantastic baked goods to Kensington and Fishtown. I was lucky enough to try their food from the very start, so to see them grow from a pop-up with no line, to a pop-up with lines down the block, to a brick and mortar. I am extremely proud and I wish nothing but the best for them as they open their brick and mortar. Their baked goods will knock your socks off, they use only the highest quality ingredients, really interesting flavor profiles, things you don’t see on a regular Philly bakery menu. I highly recommend you stop in, this Bakery will become one of the best bakeries in Philadelphia. #phillyfood #phillyfoodie #dessert #bakery #cheesecake
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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. In the end, 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? ❤️
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From his Temple University dorm room to a brick-and-mortar in Fishtown, we’re so thrilled to be working with wunderkind @chefsa1f on the opening of @mannabakery_philly. Saif draws inspiration from the cooking traditions of his late father and grandmothers, translating family memories into innovative Levantine and Palestinian-inspired pastries that feel both deeply personal and entirely original. Manna Bakery officially opens its doors on Berks Street next Thursday, July 30, serving narrative-rich and picture-perfect sweet and savory bites 🧡
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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. My mom tells him that is the wrong answer and that he cannot eat her banana bread. I thought it was a funny exchange. 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❤️
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