Kaya has great food and a fun atmosphere. It has an active bar and a sort of celebratory vibe, which made it nice for a birthday dinner.\n\nIt's vegetarian-friendly, and we've had some very interesting veggie and fish dishes in two visits. I particularly recommend the fish tacos--delicious and reasonably priced.\n\nOther favorites are halibut ceviche and gazpacho. All three dishes taste authentic--well, my version of that anyway. The tacos and ceviche would be right at home in CA. \n\nThe fish tacos are really the star though. The spicy creme fraiche sauce on the tacos was so tasty that we went home and tried to imitate it. The taco is a fresh wheat tortilla, an avocado slice, lightly battered fish, cole slaw dressed with lime, and a pink spicy creme fraiche sauce. It all works perfectly together. The acidity of the cole slaw is just perfect. I can't rave about these tacos enough (and I really love tacos).\n\nI also really like the homemade sweet potato chips.\n\nThey also have a good variety of wine, beer, and mixed drinks. The mojitos are very good.\n\nPortions are smallish, which I like. I was able to eat my appetizer and 2 of the 3 fish tacos. I really appreciate not having my plate loaded with rice and beans. More stuff I like, no stuff I don't.\n\nI suggest having reservations--we didn't the first time and we waited a while.\n\nThey also have a once a month prix fixe vegetarian dinner that we are going to try. It's pricey ($35, with $20 or so extra for wine pairing), but it's really hard to get high quality vegetarian food in a restaurant so we are going to try it.\n\nIncidentally, we liked the fish tacos so much that we made our own version at home (also delicious, but not as perfect). It's rare that a restaurant inspires me to directly copy one of their dishes.