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holiday cheer from m cafe
5December 23rd, 2009LA restaurants, m caféholiday cheer right on your plate or sent home with you in a box—that’s what you can expect from m cafe de chaya over the next couple days.
before you ask: ….hell no, m cafe is not open on december 25th! but today and tomorrow they are running a holiday roast special that will help warm you through this dreadful 60 degree cold front, and get you ready for santa’s birthday. have i mentioned before how much i love holiday food? i ordered m cafe’s special last night to go, and while it was a bit overpriced, i loved every bite of it. you can see it pictured above in all its take-out box glory, and below i attempted to make it a little more picturesque.
holiday roast dinner: sliced seitan roast served with herbed bread stuffing, covered in homemade gravy. with rutabega mashed potatoes, ginger cranberry sauce and broccolini. $16.50
the price tag was pretty hefty on this entree, but i assure you, so was the portion size. a long sliced seitan loaf came resting on an large bed of fluffy mashed potatoes and chunky bread stuffing. the seitan itself was absolutely exquisite, just the right amount of chewiness with a slightly burnt skin. and i’m usually pretty grossed out by cranberry sauce, but i was a fan of m cafe’s. the ginger added a whole new biting dimension to offset the sweet flavor.
overall, i really can’t fault the quality of this dish. for a quick holiday meal, it really delivered. the only complaint i have, is that it was pretty expensive. i chalk that up to, “oh well, what isn’t expensive at m cafe?!” right, right? we are talking about a place that charges over 10 bucks for vegan breakfast.
anyways, i know this special is going on at the melrose storefront today and tomorrow, so check it out if you get a chance…if you like holiday food, i highly recommend this. m cafe has weird xmas eve hours, so call ahead. oh, and also call ahead if you are in bev hills or culver city…i’m not sure what the deal is w/ those locations.
may you have a happy holiday, and eat all the roast-ish type foods as you possibly can. i know i will!
m cafe de chaya
Tags: holidays, melrose, seitan
7119 Melrose Avenue
Hollywood, CA 90046
5 responses to “holiday cheer from m cafe” 
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Your blog makes me want to move to LA 🙂
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But Stuff I Eat in Inglewood IS open December 25th, 1-5 PM.
–Bruce
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Wow, much too pricey for me, but that does look like an incredible dinner!
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I *love* this dish. Last week I had the holiday dinner at M Cafe on Tuesday, and the holiday meal at RFD on Wednesday.
M Cafe was the clear winner in my book, mostly due to the protein. Their seitan is almost untouchable, imo.
I’ve never seen an entree that expensive there. I figured they justified the cost by making it the same as RFD’s.
Those fuggers got me hooked on their spendy wheat meat!
Marie December 23rd, 2009 at 08:50