Maya Cafe

I can say no more than this award...

https://hkveg.wordpress.com/2016/05/30/best-restaurant-of-the-month-award-maya-cafe

Updated from previous review on Monday August 03, 2015


Updated from previous review on 2015-08-27

Excellent expérience, very good food (good and nice portion), very friendly people. The owner, a French lady is putting lots of love in her food and it's just great. Thank you so much.

I went to this place for dinner last Friday and it was pretty nice. I had the pasta with meatless balls and it was actually quite filling. They were booked for a private event when I went though so I had only less than 45 mins to order and finish eating...a bit stressful. So next time I'll probably make sure nothing's going on before I go :)

This place has been moved once and their previous spot was actually much large and had an open space compared to the current one on Des Voeus Road in a mall.


Overall Maya's biggest different from other restaurants is that they have especially diverse options in raw food items. They have raw soups, raw salad, raw noodles, raw desserts and they even have raw burgers and raw risottos!

I've been here a couple of times and they do offer an amazing looking healthy menu to satisfy all your dietary needs. But I personally find the food a little bit on the bland side and not as flavorful as a salad/zoodles/dessert can get. Maybe it's also related to their Mediterranean origin? Plus they are on the more expensive side so I can't really live on this on a daily basis... T.T

That being said, I would still recommend this to anyone who's into a raw vegan diet and want to try out how commonly seen food can be made into a raw version. Anyways, it's not easy to make cauliflower rice, raw cheesecake or noodles at home right? :P






My ratings:

Flavor - ★★★

Environment - ★★★

Price - ★★★ (Most main items are above $120HKD and it's unlikely to have only a main for a full meal without any dessert or snack, at least for me LOL)

Location - ★★★ (Make sure you have your map ready when you visit for the first time)

Vegan/gluten-free options: ★★★★★

Overall - ★★★

Recommendation: Raw burger and various desserts

See my photos and the full list of my Top 5 Restaurants for Eating Vegan/Gluten-Free in Hong Kong: t.cn/R5f7GjD

I go here whenever I'm anywhere near to get some of their raw vegan cakes (in all honesty sometimes I'm tempted to take the train over from Kowloon whenever I think about their cakes!) the red velvet cake is a big favourite and is incredible. As are the brownies and lemon tarts. I need to actually sit down and have a meal or get a take away soon as everything is raw and looks fantastic. Amazing staff too.