Cha-Ya Menu
101 items in 13 sections · $2.00 – $57.50 · Vegan Restaurant in Berkeley, CA
Cha-Ya’s menu lists 101 dishes and drinks, grouped into Desserts, Nigiri Sushi, Specialty Sushi Rolls, À La Carte, Small Dishes Kozara, and today specials and more. Prices range from $2.00 to $57.50, and a typical item costs about $11.20. Popular choices include Vegan Ice Cream Sundae, Hijiki, Cha-Ya Roll, Hangetsu, and Gyoza.
Desserts 6
- Vegan Ice Cream Sundae$7.00
Soy-based vanilla "ice cream" topped off with azuki bean and green tea sauce. Garnished with pineapple chunks.
- Vegan Cup Cake$7.00
Vegan chocolate mousse cup cake.
- Yellow Moon$7.00
Deep-fried organic banana, topped with azuki bean sauce and green tea sauce.
- Oshiruko$7.00
A warm bowl of sweetened azuki beans and mochi rice cakes.
- Pineapple Chunks$7.00
- Pear Compote$7.00
Lightly sweetened fresh bosc pear served with vanilla-flavored organic soy milk and green tea sauce.
Nigiri Sushi 6
- Hijiki$7.25
- Kaiware$7.25
Radish sprouts.
- Upgrade Seasoned Brown Rice$2.00
- Asparagus$7.25
Reverse roll- rice on the outside.
- Atsuage Tofu$7.25
Fried firm tofu.
- Inari$7.25
Stuffed seasoned tofu pouch.
Specialty Sushi Rolls 10
- Cha-Ya Roll$14.55
The entire sushi roll, filled with asparagus, yam, avocado, and carrots, is lightly battered and deep-fried, tempura style. Served with special house sauce.
- Haku Roll$14.55
Sushi rice with fried yam, shiitake mushroom, rolled up with an outer layer of avocado.
- Starlight Roll$14.55
Organic brown sushi rice, eryngii mushrooms, spinach, and asparagus, rolled up with an outer layer of avocado.
- Summer Green Roll$14.55
A large reverse roll with avocado, cucumber, and kaiware sprouts, topped with sea vegetable salad.
- Upgrade Seasoned Brown Rice$3.50
- Vegetable Tempura Roll$14.55
A large roll filled with tempura of banana squash, carrots, yam, and green beans.
- Garden Roll$14.55
A large roll with asparagus, spinach, avocado, cucumber, broccoli, pickled burdock, and kaiware sprouts.
- Shattuck Roll$13.80
A large roll with asparagus and yam tempura.
- Subaru Roll$15.20
Organic brown sushi rice mixture (with hijiki, wakame, and other sea vegetables), carrot, asparagus, atsuage tofu, and seasoned shiitake, rolled up with an outer layer of mustard green.
- Vegan Roll$14.40
A large roll with spinach, atsuage tofu, cucumber, broccolini, pickled burdock, seasoned shiitake, and campy gourd, and pickled ginger.
À La Carte 14
- Hangetsu$17.80
Portobello mushroom layered with atsuage tofu dipped in a light batter and deep-fried. Served with kiwi fruit sauce.
- Cha-Ya Delight$18.50
Seasoned organic brown rice topped with carrots, kabocha, broccoli, cauliflower, lotus roots zucchini, snap peas, snow peas, hijiki, atsuage tofu, shiitake, broccolini, pickled burdock, and daikon, and aware.
- Dengaku$16.50
Broiled eggplant tofu, and portobello mushroom with miso paste glaze.
- Hana Gomoku$18.50
Sushi rice served in a medium bowl, mixed with seasoned shiitake, green beans, lotus roots, carrots, tofu pouch, yam cake, and hijiki. Topped with various cooked vegetables.
- Full Moon Plate$17.25
One kappa roll, half vegan roll, and one inari.
- Cha-Ya Sushi Plate$16.50
One kappa roll, one nigiri each of shiitake, eggplant, and sea vegetable salad.
- Moon Garden$16.50
Steamed tofu custard with broccoli, carrots, shimeji mushrooms, kabocha, atsuage tofu snow peas, asparagus, zucchini, broccolini, soybeans, and gingko nuts.
- Vegetable Tempura$16.50
Eggplant, yam, asparagus, carrots, kabocha, mushrooms, green beans, and broccoli, lightly battered and deep-fried. Served with tempura sauce.
- Tonchi Nasu$18.50
Eggplant stuffed with satsuma potato, corn, hijiki, carrots, and soybeans. Lightly battered and deep-fried, tempura style. Served with a special ginger sauce.
- Soba Sushi$17.80
A roll made up of buckwheat noodles (in place of sushi rice), spinach, assuage tofu, asparagus, cucumber, pickled burdock, and seasoned kampyo gourd and shiitake. Served with a soda dipping sauce.
- Taku-Sui$18.50
Potstickers, tofu, zucchini, Napa cabbage, snap peas, asparagus, broccoli, cauliflower, silver noodles, and mushrooms in a light broth and served with a ponzu citrus sauce.
- Curry Rice$17.25
Organic tofu, kabocha, onions, celery, carrots, broccoli, snap peas, cauliflower, zucchini, and mushrooms, asparagus, kaiware, vegetable croquette with golden curry rice sauce. Choice of white or organic brown rice.
- Mikuri-Age$15.80
Breaded and deep-fried asparagus, eggplant, onions, kabocha pumpkin, mushrooms, and atsuage tofu on skewers, and a vegetable croquette. served with special miso-based sauce.
- Cha-Ya Nabe$19.09
Napa cabbage, spinach, red onion, carrots, mushrooms, kabocha, broccoli, cauliflower, lotus roots zucchini, snap peas, snow peas, silver noodles, and tofu sukiyaki broth.
Small Dishes Kozara 6
- Gyoza$11.20
Vegan potstickers, pan-fried and served with gyoza sauce (6 pieces).
- Robatayaki$11.20
Broiled pieces of portobello mushroom, red onion, asparagus, eggplant, and zucchini. Served on two skewers with robata sauce.
- Hasami Age$14.55
Sweet corn and organic atsuage tofu wrapped in a soybean sheet and nori seaweed, lightly battered, and fried with tempura style. Served with an organic almond sauce.
- Agedashi Tofu$11.90
Deep-fried tofu in special sauce, garnished with grated daikon and ginger, kaiware, scallions, and shredded nori. (4 pieces).
- Haru Maki$11.20
Fried spring rolls with asparagus, shiitake, carrots, long beans, atsuage tofu and silver noodles. Side of sweet and sour sauce.
- Ten Bou$12.65
Sticks of yam, carrots, banana squash, assuage tofu, and green beans, lightly battered and deep-fried, served with tempura sauce.
today specials 6
- Pumpkin Soup$6.60
pumpkin with miso broth on top edamame, tofu and snowpears
- Appetize Asparagus Head With Sesame Dressing$5.75
- Cold Barley Tea$3.10
Roasted barley tea is a caffeine free
- Boya Roll$12.65
a sushi rice with avocado, cucumber, rolled up an outer layer of sea vegetables salad, on top sriracha hot chili sauce
- Deep Fried Vegan Pot Stickers$8.05
- Buuz-Bao Bun$4.60
plant based bao bun
Soup 6
- Dobin Mushi$11.20
Clear soup with spinach, shimeji, eryngii mushrooms, tofu, carrots, and ginkgo nuts.
- House Miso Soup 12 Oz$4.00
A small bowl of miso soup with wake sea vegetables, tofu, and scallions. 16 oz medium - $5.00 32 oz large - $10.00
- Vegan Soup$12.65
Organic beans, split peas, lentils, and brown rice (10 oz size).
- Kinoko Miso$12.65
Miso soup with portobello, shimeji, eryngii mushrooms, tofu, scallions, and kaiware sprouts.
- House Miso Soup 16 Oz$5.75
- House Miso Soup 32 Oz$11.50
Sushi Dinner 3
- Upgrade Seasoned Brown Rice$4.00
- Sushi Combo Dinner$26.45
One kappa roll, one vegan roll, and two inari.
- Hosomaki Combo Dinner$26.45
Choose any three Hosomaki rolls. (No substitutions please.).
Salad 7
- Edamame$6.90
Soybeans boiled and lightly salted.
- Goma Ae$12.65
Blanched spinach and broccolini, topped with a sesame dressing.
- Sea Vegetable Salad$11.80
A variety of marine vegetables including seasoned hijiki served with a creamy sesame dressing.
- Senroppon Salad$14.40
Shredded daikon, turnip, cucumber, carrots with atsuage tofu, radishes, soybeans, kaiware, and toasted pine nuts. Soy vinaigrette dressing.
- Sunomono$7.50
Sliced cucumber and radishes with golden raisins, wakame, silver noodles, and toasted organic soybeans. Non-oil rice vinaigrette.
- Soba Salad$15.20
Soba noodles topped with various seasonal vegetables. Sesame-oil vinaigrette dressing.
- Shira Ae$12.65
Blanched spinach with seasoned root, carrots, shiitake, green beans tofu pouch and yam cake, served with a tahini-tofu dressing.
Extras / Sides 6
- Extra Toppings$4.60
- Steamed White Rice$2.90
- Small Sunomono Salad$4.60
- House Miso Soup$4.00
- Edamame$6.90
Soybeans boiled and lightly salted.
- Seasoned Organic Brown Rice$5.20
Noodles 8
- Vege-Tofu Curry$17.80
Curry soup topped with tofu, kabocha, onions, celery, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, mushrooms, and snap peas.
- Kinoko$16.40
Mushroom medley: shimeji, eryngii, portobello, and oyster mushrooms.
- Kitsune$16.40
Seasoned tofu pouch.
- Yasai (Cooked Vegetables)$16.40
Broccoli, cauliflower, atsuage tofu, kabocha, lotus root, zucchini, carrots, snap peas, and mushrooms.
- Sansai$16.40
Served hot or cold. Edible bracken, bamboo shoots, carrots, and enoki, and wood ear mushrooms.
- Kake / Zaru$13.20
Served hot or cold. Plain noodles topped with scallions, kaiware, and shredded nori.
- Vegetable Tempura$21.30
Served hot or cold. Vegetable tempura served with a bowl of udon or soba. (Noodles and tempura are served separately).
- Wakame$16.40
Wakame sea vegetable.
Hosomaki Rolls 17
- Sea Vegetable Salad$7.90
Reverse roll (rice on the outside)
- Shiitake$7.90
Reverse roll- rice on the outside.
- Eggplant$7.90
Reverse roll- rice on the outside.
- Spinach$7.90
Reverse roll- rice on the outside.
- Uramaki Party Platter$57.50
ASPARAGUS + SPINACH, AVOCADO + CUCUMBER, AVOCADO TEMPURA, SHIITAKE + SPINACH, AVOCADO + SHIITAKE, PORTOBELLO + SPINACH (6 rolls or 36 pcs)
- Natto$7.25
Fermented soybeans.
- Kampyo$7.25
Seasoned gourd.
- Upgrade Seasoned Brown Rice For Small Roll$2.00
- Hosomaki Party Platter$46.00
SEA VEGETABLE SALAD, EGGPLANT, ASPARAGUS, SPINACH, SHIITAKE*(Seasoned mushroom), AVOCADO (6 rolls or 36 pcs)
- Kaiware$7.25
Radish sprouts.
- Upgrade Party Platter With Seasoned Brown Rice$12.00
- Avocado$7.90
Reverse roll- rice on the outside.
- Kappa$6.00
Cucumber.
- Oshinko$7.25
Pickled daikon.
- Umekyu$7.25
Plum and cucumber.
- Yamagobo$7.25
Pickled burdock.
- Asparagus$7.90
Reverse roll- rice on the outside.
Uramaki Rolls 6
- Shiitake & Spinach$9.90
- Avocado & Cucumber$9.90
Gluten-free.
- Portobello & Spinach$9.90
- Avocado & Shiitake$9.90
- Avocado Tempura$9.90
- Asparagus & Spinach$9.90
Gluten-free.
Menu items and prices are provided for information and may have changed (last updated April 2026). Allergen information is not included – please ask the restaurant.