Per Sempre Maná — Restaurant in Oaxaca

I went to eat for lunchto this restaurant with my toddlers on a Sunday two weeks ago. We skipped breakfast as we spent the morning swimming.

The lady in the cash register was very inattentive, she was acting like she was about to close... Anyway my kids wanted pizza and the place we were usually eating at lunch time it was closed. I asked about the drinks that had milk and she got upset about my obvious question as I was wondering what kind of milk they use for in it or if they were smoothies or slurpee type of drink.

This lady was having a hard day or we were not her time to be in her restaurant.

I ordered fettuccine pasta with a creamy tomato sauce and shrimp. Cream of shrimp.

It was very rich pasta, it tasted good.

Later on the gentlemen that looked like the owner of the restaurant came to our table as we were ordering the pizza to go. He was very friendly and attentive.

I ordered dessert Panna Cotta, it was delicious.

My kids love their Hawaiian pizza, which they ate later at night for dinner. Thankfully they didn't get sick.

Unfortunately later at night I threw up, and I had diarrhea non stop. I came back to my country. I'm still recovering from the symptoms of that ...

Food: seriously excellent. Fresh, flavorful, great menu for pizza, pasta and vegan/vegetarian friendly.

It's one of our favorite restaurants for dinner.

One thing: it always looks closed. Tables have no napkins or any sign of them serving, near the entrance they always have random things(stack of linens in plastic) so we walked by so many times thinking they were just closing, but actually they just don't know how to welcome/set a vibe.

Simply noting this in case they read it. We see people walk by looking inside, stopping and then also confused. Too bad, because everyone loves the food here when they try it. If they'd just spend a little time welcoming/making it welcome they'd be packed.

Once again: excellent, high quality and...

Maná is run by an Italian family, all of which speak great English in addition to Spanish. All the staff are super friendly and helpful as well and the food is really great. During my stay in Puerto I believe I’ve gone there no less than 10 times.

We craved pizza and Maná is the only place in Puerto Escondido where we managed to find a great gluten free pizza (we went multiple times). Make sure to call and give the restaurant a 3 hour heads up in case you want gluten free pizza as they need to prepare the GF dough specially ahead of time. Their habanero salsa is something to write home about as well....