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Sipz Fusion Cafe - Clairemont Mesa
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Vegetarian
Vegan-friendly
Chinese
Delivery
Take-out
Asian
Bakery
Fusion
Vietnamese
Menu is mostly vegan and offers a range of Asian style rice and noodles plates, mock meat dishes, appetizers. Vegan sushi menu is available from 5pm. Its own bakery makes vegan treats and desserts. Casual dining in a large space. This is its first branch est. 2007. Open Mon-Sun 10:30am-9:00pm.
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5501 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, San Diego, California, USA, 92117
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53 Reviews
First Review by vixyash
susieandmichael
Points +37
How can anyone rate Sipz anything but 5 stars? - Edit
This is a San Diego classic. I will never get tired of their Thai Curry Chicken! A family-run business with the longest veg menu in San Diego. Great for takeout, big groups, and quick dinners. LOVE this place. I've been here one thousand times and will be a customer for life.
Read morePros: A million options, Thai curry chicken, pan-asian cuisine
Guest
Diet Coach
Points +319
Everybody is Happy - Edit
Met my family here, even the meat eaters where happy with the options that tasted like meat. Great variety and flavorful. Sauces were delicious. We had appetizers (spring rolls, spicy "shrimp" tempura), entrees (garlic tofu, kung pao chicken), and ended with chocolate cake with vanilla "ice cream". Everything exceeded expectations. We will be back.
Read morePros: My non-vegan friends liked the "shrimp" tempura., Large portions, Extensive menu
Cons: They were busy, water glasses were empty., Strip mall location
Guest
JasmineLove
Points +23
large portions - Edit
it is a family friendly spot. the portions are huge. I had the drunken noodles with "chicken" and it was flavor packed. my picky 3 yr old devoured most of her chow mein.
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mhale
Points +281
Favorite Veg Restaurant in San Diego - Edit
I'm from San Diego and this place is definitely my favorite veg place I've tried in SD yet. I love their pho in particular (I get it with tofu and sliced jalapeños), but I've enjoyed almost every dish I've tried there (one thing I don't recommend is the crab rangoons). I'm not a huge fan of mock meat products so I love that most dishes can be ordered with tofu instead. I'm also in love with their awesome desserts, which are all sooo enticing sitting in the case near the front door. Even my non-veg friends and family love this place -- I come here quite often with a group of carnivorous friends and also often with my carnivorous mother. They don't even comment on the fact that there's no meat, we all just really enjoy it.
Read morePros: large menu, big portions, decent prices
Guest
anne420
Points +200
Not bad at all! - Edit
Went here for the first time today. Good sized portions for the entrées.
Read moreUpdated from previous review on Sunday January 17, 2016
Pros: HUGE selection
Cons: Some traditional recipes are different
Guest
berrychamp
Points +29
Great vegetarian asian food - Edit
Central location off 805 and Clairemont Mesa Blvd. Been going here for years. Only place I know that serves vegetarian sushi (faux fish) and only after 5pm. My favorites are yellow curry, wok fried drunken noodles and thai basil. My wife loves the pan fried pot stickers.
Read moreThey are very accommodating on substitutions and have long offered a free mango iced tea if you pay cash. Place gets crowded on Friday and Saturday nights, but there are quite a few tables and the food comes out quickly, so usually not much of a wait. They are open almost every day. I have gotten food from there on Thanksgiving day!
Pros: Large portions, Great parking, Reasonable prices
Cons: Can be noisy, Service not consistent
Guest
ShantiPeace
Points +496
Mixed - Edit
I have very mixed feelings on this place. I have eaten here two or three times, but I always get an odd feeling going there.
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philjdomm
Points +945
Non Authentic & Worst Fusion - Edit
1. It's Fusion Asian, so that means even though they're very good with mimicking the carnivore dishes by using gluten mock meat,
Read moreThey unfortunately alter the original sauces, preparations and cuisine completely.
Ex:
1. Thai Papaya Salad:
Is served with regular soya sauce on the side....
What happened to Vegan Fish Chili sauce?!! That's the proper sauce for THAI Papaya Salad.
2. Crispy Noodle Bird's Nest Chinese dish, was replaced with these fat Mexican gluten noodles and was completely compromised. Not it's original cooking. It's very simple, stir fry.
3. Sipz is only known for the only Asian resto that offer Vietnamese Phone with vegetable broth until we discovered Phone La Jolla who can offer us the same but later hours.
4. The lettuce wrap was nothing like how it's normally prepared even with mock meat. Other non vegetarian places replace with at least non gmo tofu cubes, no msg sauce and gluten.
They can't even make this authentic enough.
5. The deep fried spicy rock salt jalapeño tofu was served with some Mexican red sauce paste.
Don't make something that doesn't represent especially the authenticity of the dish and cuisine!
Pros: Slightly Close, Happy Hours
Cons: Expensive, Nonauthentic, Boring
Guest
HappyYogini
Points +72
Delicious - Edit
The food was great. Warm atmosphere.
Read morePros: Variety in tastes, hearty food
Guest
Michele007
Points +18
Amazing - Edit
Best food I have eaten the whole time I have been in America. We are going back for a second visit. Huge meals and even the deserts are great.
Read morePros: Good value, Great menu, Amazing food
Guest
SiaEra
Points +54
Vegan friendly - Edit
My fiance and heard about Sipz cafe about a month ago and so far we have eaten here about 6 times already. It is that good! They have Boba drinks which can be made Vegan by substituting soy milk, the waiter suggested we order the green tea boba and it is honestly the best flavor. The food is Vegetarian but it is noted which items can be made vegan, about 95% can be made Vegan. They have a hotness scale depending on how spicy you like your food. We ordered the Spicy thai fried rice and Japanese Fire noodles at an 8 once and it was the spiciest dish we had ever ate, but still very tasty. I order my rice and noodles dishes at about a 5 now though because the 8 was a little too spicy for me, but if you love spicy food then go for it. Also the crispy spring rolls are great. The service is always fast.
Read moreDepending on what you order it can get a tad pricey, for two meals, an appetizer and 2 boba drinks it is about 30 dollars but the food is well worth it.
Pros: Great selection, Very fast service, Good location
Cons: a tad pricey at times
Guest
GabrielitoVegano
Points +66
Really Good Food - Edit
On our recent trip to san Diego we stopped by Sipz to have a bite and found it to have good chinese food. They have a lot of vegan options, just make sure to ask beforehand because some of their items are vegatarian. Well, we ended up going the next day. We had the orange "chicken", the soft chowmein and the cashew "chicken".
Read morePros: Vegan Friendly, Nice service
Guest
vegboy2009
Points +86
Maybe the best San Diego restaurant EVER - Edit
Amazing food, quick service, great selection, plenty of seating, all around terrific experience. I'll DEFINITELY be back.
Read morePros: Awesome food, Good atmosphere, Plenty of parking
Guest
jamber79
Points +376
good asian food! - Edit
This place had tons of tables, plenty of space for big groups. The food was all very good. Loved the potstickers, the bbq "pork" and the vegan thai iced tea. Service wasn't the friendliest, but everything came out as ordered. Will go back again!
Read morePros: food, value, large space
Cons: not friendly service
Guest
SaraGale
Points +46
AMAZINGLY DELICIOUS FOOD! - Edit
Their website doesn't have their full menu. This place is amazing! All noodle dishes are incredible and there is a huge and delicious vegan sushi menu that I highly recommend. My husband and I are vegetarian and this is our favorite place! We even take our meat-eating friends here and they love the mockmeats too. Great boba teas as well.
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SonjaCPA
Points +5270
Nice place - Edit
Every time we visit San Diego, we go to Sipz. It's a nice place, but we're spoiled by all the vegan Thai/Asian places in LA, so while I have nothing to complain about, it just wasn't as good as others I've been to. I do like the boba drinks though! We tend to order the Vietnamese style dishes more as we get so much Thai & Chinese back home.
Read morePros: different types of Asian food, easy parking , boba drinks
Cons: some dishes not as good as others
Guest
kristalinn
Points +49
Great Thai Curry - Edit
My standard order when we go to Sipz is the veggie potstickers (they are often a bit limp - but they taste great!) and the Thai Curry! The curry has a really great flavor (it's not exactly like you'd get at a Thai place but it's equally as delicious in it's own right). There are always a few pieces of eggplant in the curry, which I LOVE. I always get it with steamed tofu (since I'm not big on mock meats and I don't like my tofu FRIED). I ALWAYS have an entire meal leftover to bring to work the next day. The first couple times I visited, I order something else and I didn't really like it as much. I think the menu here is hit and miss. The key is to find the really good stuff and then stick to it! My boyfriend LOVES the Vegan Sushi!! : O) - Oh, and it's nice to be able to get a Thai Iced tea VEGAN (with soy milk) - One thing in particular that I've ordered that I did NOT like at all was the Vietnemese noodle dish... very bland... nothing like the real thing...
Read morePros: Thai Curry
Cons: Some not so good items on the menu
Guest
adam95
Points +34
Sipz Vegetarian Cafe - Edit
This Restaurant is the BEST restaurant EVER! I think this because of the service, and most importantly, the food, the food is out of this world. The minute I walk in there, I get excited cause of the smell. Outside of the restaurant is a menu just to give you a sneek peek of what the restaurant is like. They have anything vegetarian, anything that you could think of, it is 100 percent vegetarian, no animal products, even to fortune cookies or choclate chip cookies don't have egg. This food is completely delicious.
Read moreI used to love oyster sauce, but I got dissipointed when I found out it was an animal product, so I couldn't eat it, but at this restaurant, the oyster sauce is soy oyster sauce, YEAH!!! This place has everything from vegetarian soup, to soy chicken, so I don't care if you live in China,
Greece, New York, or Russia, come down to San Deigo, California and stop by Sipz Vegetarian Express. This restaurant is right bt a Animal Right Theift Store that donates money to help animals, and by a comic book store.
Pros: Food, Restroom, and Food
Cons: Fish Tank needs cleaning, none, none
Guest
vduplessis
Points +72
went there 3x in 1 week! - Edit
fave place to go when on vacation in SD.
Read moreall the dishes we got were a hit-- my faves were the Thai curry, chinese chicken salad, & cashew chicken. kids loved the sushi, pad thai & chow mein. desserts are awesome.
but what is up with the insanely big beverages???
Pros: great food, big portions, variety
Cons: random location!, slow service
Guest
irlandaise
Points +149
Good Noodles! - Edit
My husband LOVED this place! HUGE bowls of hot noodles and dumplings, ect. (I probably would have enjoyed it more had I not eaten a very dense "raw" lunch). You definately get A LOT of food and it seemd to be a friendly, casual atmosphere. I definately recommend it if you're a noodle-lover!
Read morePros: Good Noodles!, Nice Atmosphere
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breathingwater
Points +48
Terrible! - Edit
I took my mom there last week since so many people keep mentioning the place. It took forever for our order to be taken and once it was we waited sooooooooo long to get our food. Even our drinks. I had to remind them they hadn't brought my drink and when it came it was not what I'd ordered. I had to remind them about my soup and when it came it was luke warm (otherwise would've tasted good at least). My mom got so tired of waiting that she complained and they said they'd rush our order but no one came to tell us what was going on, if there was a problem or why it was taking so long. No one seemed to care. Our waiter said he didn't know anything about the food or drinks because he's new. The people next to us got their food before us and they arrived at least a half hour after we did! We were going to leave but the lady assured us our food would be right out. About another 10 minutes we had our food and my mom liked hers but mine was the chow mein and it wasn't very good. I complained at the front counter that the whole thing was a terrible experience. We got there at about 6pm (or earlier)and our food arrived just before 7pm. We waited at least 45 minutes! It was fairly busy and there were only two servers but they weren't totally packed and there were a lot of employees standing around not doing anything. They took a few charges off our bill but should have just comped the whole thing. After all that hype that San Diego has a vegan restaurant I am really dissapointed. We'll never go back. Don't waste your time.
Read morePros: Willing to cut bill
Cons: Slow Service, Bad Service, Food
Guest
chanale
Points +30
decent food, but very slow service - Edit
We've been going to Sipz about once a month for the last year. The food is hit-or-miss (the lettuce wrap appetizer with peanut sauce is very good, anything with "chicken" is hard and rubbery), and they rely far too much on fake meat for my taste, but it's a decent place to go when you don't feel up to cooking and cleaning.
Read moreMy one big complaint is the service, which has been horribly slow whether we've been there in the evening or at an off hour when the place is nearly empty. A few evenings ago, we all went out to Sipz for sushi, and we only placed a small sushi order between the three of us, retaining a menu and telling the waiter we'd order more later. More than an hour later, he still hadn't checked in on us, so my husband had to ask the person behind the counter for the check. We were asked by that person if we wanted dessert. So we could wait another hour? We all went home still hungry and annoyed.
I've been to the Sipz Sorrento Valley location once now, and although that's in a food court, they seem to have almost the full menu that Clairemont does without the ridiculous wait times. The con there is atmosphere (a food court) and that there was literally nowhere to sit during the lunch rush, but the food was par with Clairemont, and the service much faster, of course.
Cons: tortoise-slow service
Guest
lithophor
Points +20
My favorite restaurant - Edit
I love going here! they have great service, and a wide array of food, drinks, for all dietary needs.
Read moreThe only downside is, its nowhere near my house, so its always a trip to go. I hope they open one up in hillcrest!
Guest
PH0ENIX
Points +53
Delicious, affordable vegetarian food - Edit
We ordered some sushi rolls, pho, curry chicken, and boba drinks. All were extremely delicious and filling. The only problem was our stomachs were too small to try more things. We will definitely have to go back; I wish we had one of these in Phoenix! The place was pretty busy too, with a diverse mix of customers. Very nice.
Read morePros: Delicious food, Good value, Very filling
Guest
condekedar
Points +9421
Solid, simple food - Edit
Sipz has a large menu featuring hearty, simple Asian dishes (and some non-Asian dishes). All their entrees are under $8 and they come in portion sizes that are perfect for a single meal (though not big enough for me to have leftovers!). The food was tasty, but not superb by any means; sometimes it seemed a bit too greasy or sweet, but on a whole it was good. The service was a bit slow, especially when trying to get the check.
Read morePros: Value, Large menu, Friendly staff
Cons: Slow service, A bit greasy
Guest
vixyash
Points +14
Tasty Asian Style Veg Place in SD! - Edit
I love Sipz for their excellent mock meat (especially chicken). The dishes are always tasteful and huge, so I always have leftovers! The drinks are delicious (yummm honeydew tea) and the desserts (mmmm banana cake) are really amazing. Unfortunately, they are so popular that sometimes the service is slow, but worth it.
Read morePros: Great Value, Delicious
Cons: Slow Service, Not Enough Variety
Guest
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