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Neighborhood: MissionMon-Tue. 5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Wed-Thu. 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Wed-Thu. 5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Fri. 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Fri. 5:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Sat. 12:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Sat. 5:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Sun. 12:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Sun. 5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
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Cha-ya is a must-check-out spot for any vegetarian. healthy, delicious, colorful and fresh food Japanese style. yummy veggie sushi (you almost don't miss the fish) in many different creative rolls (my favorite is the chaya roll of course). noodles and rice dishes, tempura, tea, beer, wine, sake, dessert. all vegetarian of course!
small and gets crowded, but worth waiting a bit. atmosphere is nothing fancy. tables and some bar stools at the window for mission hipster-watching out onto Valencia. open for lunch from 12- 2:30 with a separate smaller menu. *cash only, atm charges a fee.
Really delicious food! I love this place. I feel like licking sunflower when I think about their food. It's splendiferous!!!
My dog Fifibell always vies after my leftovers, she has been known to dig the remains out of our bin searching for some tiny morsel of delightfully flavorful cuisine.
The water is an issue. There was a time when it seemed an eternity waiting to be offered one single drop as I languished in a desert of dehydration! I didn't want to be rude and ask. I waited and stared pointedly at my server. Luckily, she understood my pangs.
I don't suggest the nan-man. It was like a flavorless bomb of bean and citrus floating in a pond of unidentifiable fluid.
Everything else is bliss in food form. I would take the queen there for dinner if she would only call me back.
Came here with the girls after happy hour at Elbo Room. Our original plan was to eat at Monk's Kettle, but Monk's was closed for a private party. We basically chose Cha-Ya because the sign is very visible from the street, and one of my friends is a vegetarian. Walking in, the place smelled amazing, so we opted to scribble our name at the bottom of the wait list.
Please note - you are expected to pen in your own name on the wait list. After about five minutes of waiting for a hostess, we learned this the hard way when some girl waltzed through the door, brushed right past us and put her name on the list. I quickly put down my name right after hers, and one of my friends who is much ballsier than I am crossed out the girl's name and re-wrote it on the line below mine. Despite the length of the wait list, we were seated within 15 minutes.
Between the four of us, we ordered two types of soup, sushi, fried tofu and an eggplant/tofu dish. The eggplant/tofu was mine, and I was a little surprised at the presentation - literally 1/3 of a large Italian eggplant, boiled and uncut on the plate with sauce on top. Next to the giant hunk of eggplant were two large chunks of portabello, and next to those were two large chunks of tofu, all with the same miso sauce on top. One of my friends said it looked like a dessert platter - eggplant cupcake, portabello chocolate and tofu cheesecake. Weird presentation aside, it was delicious. Everyone else's meals looked as you'd expect.
The fried tofu gets its own paragraph. I love fried tofu, and it did not disappoint. There was a nice gingery kick to the sauce.
I had heard great things about this place ffrom my roommate, so i had some pretty high expectations coming into the restaurant, and boy let me tell you they did not dissappoint at all. We ordered about five different rolls, my favorite being the cha ya roll, tempura roll, and the avocado roll. Th only part that sucks is they only take cash. However there blocks from bi-rite creamy so you can do both. parking can be tough sometimes, but only once did we cave for a paid parking lot. There are sooo many good things on the menu to try i cant wait to go back and get to try it all!! There Jasmine green tea is also pretty awesome!!
Everything I have ever ordered here is amazing. I don't really know what else to say. Cha-Ya is probably my favorite vegetarian restaurant in the city.
The service is just as attentive as you would expect for a traditional Japanese restaurant. The ladies are the most friendly on earth, but they do what they are supposed to and don't waste time with empty conversation. If you go to a restaurant based on the personalities of the servers, you should stick to Benihana anyway.
I was skeptical of vegan sushi so I went with the mushroom udon noodle soup. It was your standard giant bowl of thinner udon noodles and brimming with a variety of mushrooms. A solid soup, just what I wanted, and certainly nothing to sneeze at, if you are one of those types who sneezes at things deemed less than worthy.
After witnessing several amazing-looking vegan sushi orders come out, though, I realized I need to come back and attack these sizable sushis. Soon, soon.
Veggies and I usually don't get along. I was definitely skeptical. We asked our waitress (an awesome old asian woman wearing a hat and san diego fleece) what we should order. Thankfully she stopped us after we tried to order 4 combos and said 2 would be enough for all of us.
Seriously this menu needed an excel spread sheet, but its also why I will most definitely go back. I have no idea what I ordered or ate, but I know it was good and my ass isn't getting any bigger.
The veggie sushi was awesome. The one with the plum paste is amazing. Much more flavor than mayo drenched ones in most sushi places.
I will be going back to order many more mystery veggie dishes at Cha-ya.
If Cha Ya weren't so understaffed, this would be a great restaurant. Both the food and location are great - fresh vegetables, cooked well, with a variety of options, served either at the beautiful wooden bar or tables.
My recommendation is to go off peak. Lunch is best, and just before the lunch crowd is even better.
Tips:
-If you strategically sit near the kitchen, you are in line of sight of the staff when they pass by - so you are less likely to be overlooked.
-Lunch offers the best value. There are combination lunches (ex. gyoza + sushi) which come with rice and miso, all for less than $10. You get more than twice as much food for the equivalent price of their dinner items.
Good food, great people. We brought a friend from out of town, showed up 10 minutes before they were suppossed to open and guess what? They let us in anyway. We ate good food which is really reasonably priced and it was our friend's birthday, they brought out the best damn vegan chocolate cake and sang him happy birthday, which made him happy and us too.
This place rocks!
I've been here many times, really like it when I'm in a mood for vegetables, rice, and clean flavors.
I find the soups and dishes that come in broth are more bland, but other dishes are great (any of the vegetables-and-rice bowls, the veggie sushi).
yeeeeeck! They can not even get the rice right, forget about anything slightly more complex. This is definitely NOT Japanese
Holy sh*T!
I love this restaurant...I've been a vegetarian now for 35 whole days! (I started 71 days ago, but cheated 3 times in the first 36 days ;-) I am feeling great, but I must say that there are only so many veggie burgers and veggie curries you can eat before you go nuts. This place has so many choices and the food is suprisingly flavorful. I almost passed out, I was so happy.
We ordered:
1. Moon Garden - steamed tofu custard topped with seasonal vegetables. I think this was my favorite of the night, it ever so slightly edged the other dishes out. This is what I call comfort food, and it wasn't boring at all. We ate every bit of it.
2. Veggie Tempura sticks (appetizer) - hot, crisp, veggies cooked al dente, it's not the bogus tempura coating either, this is the real deal. Great!
3. Soba sushi - this was the surprise of the night! Who would have thought to put soba in sushi instead of rice. It comes with a broth like dipping sauce which was delicious. Add a gob of wasabi, dip in the sauce and I never missed the fish!
4. Inari (2 pieces) - these came out really cute, perfectly formed and chubby. The rice was cooked just right and the fried tofu skin was sweet but not overly so. Yummy!
All together we paid $40 including tax and tip, I'm stuffed to the gills and highly satisfied. I will definitely come back.
P.S. Service was a tad bit lacking, they could probably use 1 more waitress.
the closest you can get to vegetarian heaven! :D
i had the yasai soba, but you can also have it with udon as well... and with all of their soups, too.
love love love a japanese.. and UBER LOOOOVEEEEE a vegetarian, since im vegetarian! ugh... i wanna bring all my veggie-lovers and veggie-wanna-be's hereeeeeee! j'et aime! MEEEOWWWWWW
would go back for sureeeee! yum! and oh! I LOVE A BUSINESS THAT DOESNT TAKE CREDIT CARDS AND DEBITS! cash only folks.. no cash? they have an ATM machine on the spot!
It's good.
Blech. Horrible attitude. Mediocre food.
Mid-afternoon and the restaurant was nearly empty. I was alone but had a book and notebook and iphone all part of work I was doing while eating, so wanted to use the four top table instead of the tiny two seater. This resulted in the server (owner?) giving me stink eye through the whole meal, as she wanted me at a two top. This in a restaurant where every four top was empty.
And the food was overcooked and mushy-my clay pot was too hot to eat with gyoza inside that disintegrated making them impossible to eat. I don't know who thinks that is good Japanese food.
Maybe this place is fun when full of people and you don't notice the grim servers, but it was cold and unwelcoming when I was there.
Don't be fooled by vegetarian Japanese cuisine - in fact, there are plenty of Japanese dishes sans meat and fish that most people aren't aware of.
I am a huge fan of Cha-Ya, not because it caters to the vegetarian palate, but because they know how to cook food well. Take for instance agedashi tofu. It's one of my favorite Japanese small dishes and one of the simplest, but I've been to far too many restaurants who don't know how to make it properly. Naturally, I was hesitant to order it at Cha-Ya, but theirs exceeded my expectations. So does their sukiyaki and other hot pot dishes - not a fan of their sushi though (in general, the cold stuff is lacking). I'd recommend any of the hot food standards.
Also note that they practically push you out the door come closing time, so make sure you get there well before the hour strikes.
I had no idea vegan could taste so good! It was interesting to once see a menu full of creative vegetarian options.
Favorite dishes:
- Stuffed Eggplant
- Gyoza, tofu, and silver noodles in an iron pot
A very casual, refreshing experience! Definitely heading back to try out other things on their menu.
PS: Remember to get cash with you! They don't accept credit cards.
I've been to Cha-Ya a handful of times over the past couple of years (both in SF and Berkeley), and always enjoyed it, but last night's meal was different. I don't know what it was, but the food was really tasty. Whereas before I thought it was good, it wasn't terribly exciting, for it's Japanese vegetarian, and variations of the same thing, just cooked differently - whether sushi, tempura, entrees.
But last night changed that. We asked the waitress for recommendations, and we ordered most everything she suggested, and man, it was delicious:
1) Soba sushi - instead of rice, they use soba noodles in the maki roll, which was simple yet very creative, and so good! The different veggies in the middle were fresh and crunchy.
2) Stuffed eggplant - fried just right, with nice veggie filling, and a nice sauce.
3) Assorted mushroom tempura - this is a special, so not on the menu. There were like six different mushrooms that they did tempura style. Yummy!
4) Seaweed sushi roll - the filling is basically wakame salad (assorted seaweed), which I love, and so it was very delicious.
5) Gyoza and vegetable soup - basically a nabe style soup, very savory and hearty, and great on a cold night.
I liked the variety of dishes we ordered, and how they all tasted different from each other, even though the ingredients were similar. I"m excited to go back again and order the same things, and try new things.
Granted it was a busy saturday night, but the wattress took her sweet time before we asked her if we could order. She brought my girlfriends main course to the table about 10 minutes before mine, a vegetable tempura udon that was too heavily battered and had very soggy and not sufficiently thick noodles. On top of that my gf found 2 hairs in her soup! This place needs to learn a little bit about service
We went by on a Friday night around 8pm and got seated immediately. It was a holiday weekend so maybe it was slower. Still, a few minutes after we ordered, we saw people waiting outside.
The Cha-ya Delight was my favorite. It had brown rice and well seasoned vegetables. In the end everything was something with vegetables so I didn't taste a lot of difference between the Cha-ya Delight and this custard with vegetable dish or a clear noodle and gyoza with vegetable dish. Everything was tasty though.
I'd like to go back and try some other stuff on the menu. I'll have to remember to bring cash.
It's nice to know that when the world's oceans are all dead zones, we'll still have sushi. Just not the kind with fish.
Now if vegetarian sushi sounds like an even more minimalist variation of an already ascetic cuisine, you obviously haven't tried the cha-ya roll. Piping hot and tempura-fried, they're more like comfor-tastic dumplings slyly molded into the sushi format. The Shattuck rolls are a showpiece for some amazing fried yam, and the soba rolls (where they use cut soba instead of rice) while certainly more monkish, are still a bite of creative joy. And if following up sushi with some intensely chocolate cake seems odd, well, remember it wasn't really sushi. And remember it's vegan cake, which makes you cutting-edge or something, right?
Just don't go here for the ambiance. It's too nice to be called a dive, but it's not neighborhood-chic either (and never will be as long as they have that ATM by the front door).
I want to give Cha Ya more stars for being a vegetarian restaurant but I have to be stingy knowing that this place would make me a very poor woman if I continued to eat here. Okay, it's not THAT expensive but at least two bucks more than your average veggie roll anywhere else. That made me sad. Also, on the menu there are some sort of rules they lay out like cash only, nine dollar minimum per person, no separate checks, gratuity fees, etc. which made me think.... wow they must not like cheap people like me! What am I doing eating sushi anyway?
Waiters are very slow, the food makes up for it.
I can't believe I haven't reviewed Cha-Ya yet. This is hands-down my FAVORITE restaurant and I'm not a vegetarian.
This place is so delicious, fresh, and clean, not to mention a great value. I recommend the following:
-Wakame Soba (or Udon)- the broth is to die for. I can't believe it's not pork-based!! And they are VERY generous w/ the seaweed.
-Avocado-Cucumber Uramaki
-Sunomono Salad
-Gyoza (not so much for the gyoza, but for the asparagus w/ peanut sauce accoutrement)
-Shattuck Roll
It is blindingly bright. Don't go here on a first date because it's not romantic, however, the food is so clean you probably won't get gas or halitosis, so that's a plus.
Taking the awful lighting and mediocre service into consideration, I still give Cha-Ya five stars because I have always had consistently excellent-tasting good-for-you food.
Full disclosure: I'm not a vegetarian.
I do love vegetarian food, though and was dying to try this spot as it always seems to be packed. I went on a "school night" and everything was good. Not over-the-top-die-if-you-don't-eat-here-everyday good, but tasty good.
The Cha-Ya roll was great and our various noodle bowls each had a unique broth flavor. It sort of looked like no matter what you ordered, they threw the same thing in a bowl, but somewhat miraculously, it did taste different and all the flavors we shared were yummy.
Unless you're a vegetarian - in which case you're probably rating on a different scale - I'd say Cha-Ya is best for those times when you just get back from vacation or a long weekend of partying. You feel like you need to detox, but you're hungry anyway. We walked out of the restaurant pleasantly full (although my dining companion was craving pork) and feeling healthier than ever (or at least since before the previously mentioned vacation).
Give it a shot.
So I have been on this vegan kick for two weeks and been really enjoying the creativity it takes to manage a dairy-egg-meat free diet. I have found delicious menu items (with a modification or two) on many a restaurant menu and have found yelp to be very very helpful.
I was steered very wrong here. Despite the glowing reviews that normally push me in the right direction, Cha-ya went horribly wrong.
When my boyfriend and I first arrived we were ignored for a bit, then quickly ushered to a table (it was a Wednesday night at 8 - not too crazy out), where we were ignored, sans menus for about 10 to 15 minutes.
When we got the menus, the waitress seemed quite annoyed to have to explain some thing to us. Excuse us for the questions on your four page menu - front and back! Small font!
Anyway, I am more than happy to forgive any service snafu if the food is worth it. Unfortunately it was not. Blandy bland bland.
Cucumber salad = bland
Potstickers = Okay, highlight of menu, but just okay
Sushi roll = bland, soft cardboard bland
Soup = Bland. And blisters the roof of your mouth hot!
My boyfriend got a tempura'd portabello mushroom - Bland. And I love portabello's plain!
Overall this was a waste of $70
I wish I just ordered a seaweed salad, avocado roll and a kappa maki at a somewhat decent sushi place.
Ah I'm not even sure where to start except for that I may or may not have come back to the Bay Area exclusively to come here. Don't get me wront, the place is not perfect, but I was hard pressed for vegan Japanese in both Vail and Boston, so this place is a mecca.
I usually just go for the rolls, all of which are yum, if not a bit overwhelming--esp the garden roll, which would take quite an overachiever to shove that bad boy down in one bite.
Last time I branched out and tried the fresh fava bean starter (shelled favas--fresh but a bit bland, wouldn't repeat), and one of the combos that came w/ broiled eggplant, shrooms, and tofu w/ a miso glaze (delighful) and this unreal tofu custard thing (savory not sweet) w/ veggies--I haven't had tofu this smooth since I was in Tokyo, so it of course made me really excited. I have find of simple tastes tanks to a while of the veggie track, so the tofu doesn't have a ton of flavor, but the mouth feel is superb and I've been craving it ever since.
The Berk location in tiny so I'd get there early and w/ your game face on. Service is quick, cordial, but often neglectful. The SF location is much larger but perhaps less warm and fuzzy.
The Boy and I went here with two of his friends and were in Vegan Heathen Heaven. The whole menu is vegan and there are a million and four very interesting choices. We ended up all ordering two (ok, maybe three) things off the sushi menu, some gyoza, some edamame, some fried tofu...
OK, so we ordered about half the menu.
Everything was awesome.
Like, Everything.
The four of us plowed through the eight thousand plates on our table like we hadn't eaten in weeks, and found ourselves still picking at the food long after our bellies were distended and sushi rice was coming out our ears.
Total keeper. Holy mountain of Yum.
I am walking a fine line here, as I find it annoying when people write critical yelp reviews of restaurants for serving exactly what they claim to serve (ie complaining about greasy fish n chips, insufficient veggie options at the bbq joint, loud music at the dance club, et cetera). Also, I'm not a vegetarian, and I find it hard to be sympathetic to vegetarians in a city like San Francisco, or a neighborhood like the mission.
So, obligatory caveats aside, I have three words to describe Cha-ya's cuisine: bland, bland, and bland. I've had tastier bathwater.
If this is your favorite restaurant, I feel bad for you.
What is the big deal with this place? Everyone wouldn't shut up about it, finally went. lots of vegan options, yes...
The summer roll was good, and the udon was good--but those are basics, can get them anywhere. the a la carte stuff we ordered was very small, boring, tasteless, and not what they made it out to be. the service was absolutely horrible. and they only accept cash.
I hate rules.
CHAY-YA RULES
*$9.00 min per person
*Cash only
*No separate checks
*Water upon request
and the rules go on and on and on
This place is hot...like suffocating hot. I felt like I was in a sauna when I was hidden and tucked away in the corner, wishing the non-japanese speaking waitress would just leave me a pitcher of water instead of asking and asking and asking for more H2O.
Ok...so the menu: Uber overwhelming. Pages and pages of different vegetable combinations. After much deliberation, I settled on a gyoza vegetable broth thing. It was tasty and VERY hot. The others enjoyed the cold soba salad (so pretty), and the spring roll and some sushi roll could have been cousins.
So anyway, eat up vegetarians! I think I will give this place a pass next time.
If you like this Cha-ya, you will LOVE the Cha-ya at Berkeley!!! not only the food tastes good, the atmosphere is so great! It's just as cozy as if you were visiting Kyoto and found a dessert oasis!
There are many, many items I have tried from the menu and I have to say I almost enjoy all of them (ok, maybe except the eggplants but I don't eat that anyway)
for starters, get cha-ya rolls, mushroom tempura (special menu, not always availabe), and miso soup (or tempura udon/soba) it's just that good and tasty!
I like how they have lunch combo where you can get try two dishes together! adds variety!
My dear friends treated me here a few nights ago in early celebration of my birthday. Like the good friends they are, they brought 1 CRU champagne and tequila. The nice lady who served us was very kind about procuring glasses for us and popping the champagne at no extra charge. We were very classy about the tequila, choosing to take shots of it out of one of our water glasses. I would never recommend washing down warm tequila shots with cool champagne, but I give my friends A for effort and A+ for ingenuity.
The food was really very good; the broths were flavorful and savory, while the salads we ordered were crisp and fresh. We started with the Kinoko Miso Mushroom Soup, the Soba Salad, and the Senroppon Salad ( Shredded Salad). What a way to start the meal! The mushroom soup was so hearty and filling, for being a miso-based soup. Plenty of mushrooms and bok choy to add flavor and substance. When the Soba Salad arrived, we at first thought it was the wrong order, because the soba noodles were buried beneath layers of colorful and beautifully arranged vegetables. It was a feast for the eyes, all of it! My friend appropriately stated that the Senroppon Salad looked like a "party", because it was ribbons of confetti-like radishes and carrots, spiraled into a tall tower of colorful and healthy goodness. The pine nuts added an interesting and nice touch.
We finished the meal with Agedashi Tofu, which was pretty standard but still good (the broth it came served with was out of this world flavorful!), Haru Maki (spring roll) which was lightly fried and so delicate and delicious, and Taku-Sui (gyoza and veggies in a clay pot).
I just have to say, after this long review, that it was all so, so good. The food was so perfectly prepared, beautifully presented, and tasted as lovely, light, and refreshing as one would expect vegetarian Japanese to be.
Oh, and the menu states that vegan Japanese cuisine has been around since the 13th century. Who would have thunk? I could have sworn this was an invention of California/Hollywood...
To borrow a phrase from my homes Jami W., bomb dot com!
For ser, as a vegan, this place is a godsend when I'm craving sushi rolls and don't want to have to deal with nit-picking my way through a menu, subbing out this-and-that for such-and-such. Our group of 10 ordered basically everything and so I don't know what I had, but all of it was goooooood.
But the best, BEST thing on the menu (aside from delish birthday dessert platter ish) is the fried yam!! Get it with everything, get it by itself, who cares, just order tons of it and prepare to have your mind blown.
Logistic-wise, bring cash, 'cause they don't take no cards. Also, the place is not super huge, so if you've got a lot of people in a group, have someone show up early to let them know, and the restaurant will gladly accommodate.
Yummy! It is very different from other Japanese restaurant!
This is only restaurant I don't have to worry about meat ( I don't eat meat ) .
Only thing it is very hard to find parking!
People should get a tax break for being vegetarian!! Seriously.......don't you think! Look at all those bill boards that are cryin' out load about saving the planet and going green.
Being Vegetarian is easy in San Francisco. Whether you were born one or you just turned into one!!! and it's easy because there's places like Cha-Ya!! :)
Food - amazing
Service - great
Cleanliness - good
Prompt seating - yes.
The only hassle - cash only!!!
I have finally become a regular here, so heed this warning: the best thing here is the sushi. Everything else is bland and not worth your time or money unless you enjoy bland food.
It's not a typical Asian restaurant where you can count on standards like spring rolls or potstickers.
Trust me, it's all about the veggie sushi here!
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I came here a while ago so I don't remember what I ordered specifically. All I knew was, when I left I thought, "Omg! I have to bring my friends here!" Plus everything on their menu is vegan! Pretty awesome.
Every time I go out for sushi/Japanese food with my friends I'm always limited with what I can order. This makes me really sad because the majority of my friends aren't vegetarian and there aren't many sushi places in San Jose that have an extensive vegetarian menu. Just the same ol' tofu, shitake, avocado, and cucumber rolls. Grrr... I want to eat more! And not just sushi either.
Please open one up in San Jose. I will be forever greatful!
Our experience started with us being asked to write our name down on their list upon entering the restaurant despite their being several empty tables. Ofcourse soon after, another waitress pointed to a free table and asked us to sit down. Strange.
Food. I took my parents who are vegetarians and I should say that we are biased towards very flavorsome cuisine. As some of the other reviewers say, the food is fairly bland but do ask for the chill pepper which makes everything taste nicer!
The cha-ya roll as recommended by everyone stood up to its expectations. It was excellent. We ordered the vege-tofu curry which was just nice nothing spectacular. We also had a vege soup of some kind with silver noodles which was well.. bland.
Dessert was very interesting! I highly recommend the the dish with the beans and moshi cakes - delicious. The vegan cake tasted much like a non-vegan cake which is great if you are vegan I imagine!
Service was ok, the waitresses didn't really speak any English but was all smiles. The price was very reasonable was the bill came to about $48 including dessert for 4 of us.
Lastly, in terms of water - we found that the water was ever flowing without us not having to ask for it once! So perhaps they have actioned some of the comments here? Either way, it was worth trying it out but I will probably try the other vege restaurants before returning here.
I'm SO glad I have new vegetable place. For whatever reason when I thought, "I NEED VEGETABLES," I always ended up at Herbivore becoming progressively more disappointed with their food. We just don't mix, Herbivore and I. Cafe Gratitude is just not really my style...
CHA-YA, on the other hand, is fantastic. The colors alone are worth the trip, but the flavors are equally exciting. The Cha-Ya Delight is a favorite because of the simplicity of seasoned brown rice and veggies, but I've tried the soba and the stuff eggplant and enjoyed those as well. Haven't done the sushi, but I get the itch when I watch it being served to others. You will find me here many a night in the future. Sorry Herbivore fans, but I'm really psyched that I NEVER need to eat there again -- Cha-Ya is the spot for veggies in the Mission.
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