Jajaja Mexicana
Vegan restaurant · Chinatown ·
Vegan Mexican spot with colorful, all-vegan menu & cocktails
Vegan Mexican spot with colorful, all-vegan menu & cocktails
"If you’ve never had vegan Mexican food, or just want to try the best, check out JaJaJa. The popular spot has multiple locations across Williamsburg, the West Village, Hudson Yards, and the Lower East Side. “You would be surprised how many Latin Americans frequent our restaurants specifically because they are plant-based and want to enjoy flavors they grew up eating,” say owners Nima Garos and Koorosh Bakhtiar. While Garos and Bakhtiar are actually first-generation Iranian-Americans who fell in love with Mexican culture after spending summers in Cuernavaca throughout their youth, their chef, Rufino Colex, is originally from Puebla. Order everything from jackfruit tamales, flan, and coconut queso quesadilla, to the excellent meat-free chorizo." - marisel salazar
"Vegan and vegetarian Mexican food delivery and takeout available - call or order online." - hannah albertine, nikko duren, bryan kim, arden shore, matt tervooren
"There's vegan food that tastes great *for vegan food* and then there's great food that just happens to be vegan. JaJaJa falls into the second category, and it’s one of our go-to spots for a casual weeknight dinner or a taco-centric brunch that's secretly full of vegetables. Some of the menu items here are dead-ringers for your Tex-Mex favorites, like their nachos, which are piled with faux-rizo, refried beans, crema, salsa, and queso. Others, like the crispy pescado tacos, offer a fresh take. You might read the phrase "chipotle almond butter" and wonder whether that belongs on a fake fish taco. It does." - Carina Finn Koeppicus, Bryan Kim, Hannah Albertine, Will Hartman
"Jajaja is one of the contemporary vegan restaurants that make the current New York vegan landscape feel boundless and full of options." - Mayukh Sen
"For vegan or vegetarian Mexican takeout in North Brooklyn, check out JaJaJa’s takeout menu for their Williamsburg location. They’re open for takeout and delivery every day and you can go online to place your order." - hannah albertine
