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Nutrition

February 16, 2010

Vital Tested: This is Cheesy

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M Cafe de Chaya debuts Pizza Night.

Vegans who miss dairy, your time has come.

Can you really get good pizza in LA? How about vegan pizza? Read on.

We were invited to M Café de Chaya for Pizza Night. Vegan pizza night. Being omnivorous New Yorkers, we didn't expect to like it.

At the Melrose location, we ordered our pie and took a table beside Perez Hilton. He was looking slim, so we decided the macrobiotic fare must be working (M Café serves no animal products except fish).

The pizza arrived. On super-thin crust, topped with fresh basil and sliced into Italian-style strips, it looked good. But the cheese is fake, we reminded ourselves. We tasted it. The "cheese" was smooth, stretchy, creamy...like cheese! Called "daiya," it has 33% less fat than cheese, is free of cholesterol and trans fat, and made from plant products (get the deets here). Most importantly, it tasted good.

Two of us ate one pizza (it's less than $10) and felt light but satisfied afterward.

That's amore.

M Café de Chaya's new Pizza Night, 5-10PM Wednesdays in Culver City and 5-10PM Saturdays on Melrose; locations here

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