Manny's Bakery: Awesome Empanandas for $2 or Less

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Manny's Cafe and Bakery

10281 W. Sample Road
Coral Springs, FL 33065

Category: Restaurant > Bakery

Region: Coral Springs

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Manny's Bakery, 10281 W. Sample Road, Coral Springs. Open for breakfast and lunch 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday. Call 954-346-8666, or click here.

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All hail the empanada, that self-contained foodstuff so popular in Latin cafés, bodegas, convenience stores, and bakeries. Every country has its own interpretation of the pocket-sized meals: Colombia offers a crisp, fried corn shell stuffed with rice and chicken or beef and potatoes. Argentine empanadas — like the kind produced daily at Manny's Bakery — are like little gaucho pies filled with chunked chicken or spinach with cheese. This West Broward bakery is frequented by Latino families, especially around lunchtime. That's when it makes South American-style "butifarra" sandwiches from the crusty, flaky bread it bakes, along with big tamales wrapped in banana leaves. You can get a big sandwich and a drink for under $8. The empanadas, though, are hard to pass up. Under $2 a pop, these pies sport a crust that's sweet, buttery, and dense, with a dusting of flour on the bottom and a glossy egg-wash glaze on top. Manny's gives these an Argentine twist by cubing white-meat chicken and bathing it in guiso, a tomato-heavy sauce flecked with cilantro. Manny's is planning to move soon (the new location is yet unknown, but the owners plan to stay in Coral Springs). Be sure to visit before they make the haul.