Uroko Cafe Opens in Costa Mesa; Chaya Closes

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • August 17, 2015
Chaya, the Costa Mesa Japanese cafe that we've written about and awarded for its salad dressing some three years ago, is now shuttered and has become Uroko Cafe. Care to guess what Uroko Cafe sells? Yes. Uroko continues the proliferation of poke....
The full article can be read on the OC Weekly website.

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