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Manna Korean Cuisine, San Francisco: Stone-Pot Bibimbap and Sizzling Plates on Irving Street

A black stone pot of bibimbap with a fried egg on top, dark strips of meat beneath it, and shredded carrot, bean sprouts, pale shredded vegetables and greens around the edge, with steam rising.
Dolsot bibimbap in April 2022, with steam rising from the stone pot.
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Manna Korean Cuisine is a small Korean restaurant at 845 Irving Street in San Francisco's Inner Sunset, where in April 2022 I photographed dolsot bibimbap (rice topped with vegetables, meat and an egg in a heated stone pot), sizzling meat plates, dumplings and a noodle dish. Tablehopper, a food newsletter, noted in July 2011 that Manna looked newly open in the former Little Bangkok space.

The stone-pot bibimbap

In the cover photo, a fried egg tops the pot, with dark strips of meat beneath it and carrots, bean sprouts, pale shredded vegetables and greens around the edge. Dolsot bibimbap is eaten by breaking the yolk and stirring everything together with gochujang (Korean red chili paste), while the hot stone toasts the rice at the bottom. A Google reviewer in May 2026 describes Manna's bibimbap arriving in a black stone bowl with the egg on marinated beef and julienned vegetables, and praises the crunchy scorched rice.

Glazed meat on a sizzling plate

Glazed pieces of meat, some with bone showing, topped with sesame seeds and sliced scallions on a black cast-iron plate set on a wooden board, with sliced onion underneath and steam rising.
Glazed meat, some pieces on the bone, over sliced onion on a hot cast-iron plate.

On the black cast-iron plate, glazed pieces, some with bone showing, sit on sliced onion under sesame seeds and scallions, with steam rising; it looks like galbi, marinated short ribs. A May 2026 Google review lists galbi among the reviewer's favorites at Manna, and a March 2026 review describes dak bulgogi, marinated chicken with onions, arriving on a sizzling cast-iron plate.

Fried dumplings, a red-sauce plate and a noodle bowl

A white plate of what looks like rice cakes in red chili sauce with onion, scallion and zucchini-like slices, with a plate of fried dumplings and a small dish of dark dipping sauce beside it.
What looks like tteokbokki in red chili sauce, with fried dumplings behind.

The white plate holds what looks like tteokbokki, chewy rice cakes simmered in a sweet-and-spicy red sauce, with onion, scallion and what look like zucchini slices; fried dumplings sit behind it. Cozymeal's roundup of Korean restaurants in San Francisco, last updated in February 2025, recommends Manna's fried dumplings, which it says are filled with beef and vegetables, and its kimchi fried rice.

A white bowl of what looks like noodles in a red-brown chili sauce, topped with shredded cucumber, overlapping orange-red slices that look like radish and half a boiled egg with sesame seeds.
What looks like noodles in red sauce, topped with cucumber, radish-like slices and half an egg.

The noodle bowl looks like bibim naengmyeon, chilled noodles tossed in a spicy sauce, here with shredded cucumber, overlapping slices that look like radish and half a boiled egg.

The storefront of Manna Korean Cuisine in April 2022: a black sign with white letters reading MANNA KOREAN CUISINE on a cream-colored building, with a hanging square sign showing a bowl logo.
Manna Korean Cuisine's storefront on Irving Street in April 2022.

Before you go

  • Manna's hours, according to Wanderlog (checked Nov 14, 2026), are 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, and Manna is closed Mondays.
  • Manna can be busy: a May 2026 Google reviewer calls it worth the wait, while a March 2026 reviewer who came for a late 3 p.m. lunch found no wait.
  • Reviewers say small side dishes (banchan) arrive at Manna before the main dishes, and the March 2026 reviewer calls them unlimited.
  • Wanderlog shows Manna with a 4.5 average from 979 Google reviews.

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