Vegan Mexican Spot Opens In The West Village

WEST VILLAGE, NY — A vegan Mexican restaurant brings its third outpost to the West Village.

Jajaja Plantas Mexicana will serve its meatless eats at a new location at Carmine and Bedford streets.

The first location opened in 2017 on the Lower East Side, and it has another outpost at Williamsburg's North 3rd Street Market.

The New Yorker writes the eatery serves vegan Mexican food with a "millennial tinge."

"You would think that Mexican food would be a natural fit for vegan preparation, with all the rice, beans, salsa, and corn," the New Yorker reports.

But "Jajaja doesn't take any chances, front-loading every seemingly familiar item with some sort of trickery: shiitake 'bacon' on the utterly lovely pupusas, in which soft, fluffy corn rounds are stuffed with beans and topped with pleasantly charred mushrooms."

Some tacos include Jajaja's vegan "chorizo" with tumeric tortilla, radish, micro cilantro, red pepper, diced onion, and sour cream or hemp and flax seed battered chayote squash with chipotle almond butter and pickled red onion.

The new digs is located at 63 Carmine St., which was formerly Mr. Dennehy's Irish Pub & Restaurant.

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