Happiness Cafe — Restaurant in San Jose

My family has been coming here for vegan faire, including full meals, ice cream, tea, Italian sodas, ice jelly drinks, and so much more sine like 2012 or before. The food is outstanding, clean, wholesome, proper, fantastic clean taste, feeling healthy after eating their food. I crave their meals at least once a week. Ever since I started intermittent fasting, after not eating for 24 hours, the only thing I want to eat is a bowl of their vegan stew. The broccoli and all other organic vegetables (tomatoes, red bell pepper, cilantro, are fantastically stewed to the perfect texture, the vegetable protein has great marinated flavor, and great texture, seasonings and toasted sesame seeds. Absolute, hands-down so very wholesomely satisfying. I hope all you vegetarians and vegans out there come and try the meals from here. A few that stand out are: Noodle soup, stew over rice, patty melt, phish ball soup, avocado rolls, happiness over rice, strawberry vegan ice cream, several of their Italian sodas, and so many other things. This is a true, Mom and Pop, diamond-in-the-rough. The resultant is clean inside, the service is fantastic. The level of absolute satisfaction their stew over rice meal brings me can't be understated. This is home-cooked, wholesome food, simple, no frills, just satisfying plant-based nutrition. After eating here since 2012, I can easily, and highly recommend all their faire to friends and...

We had dinner here on Jan 12, 2023. We ordered Avocado rolls, BLT sandwich, Beef stew noodle soup, Opera cake, Ginger tea and lavender milk tea. Here my personal rating: Avocado rolls: excellent, the oily flaky and crispy dough wrapped around the crunchy cabbage, soft avocado and the tender fake meat. All of these did not have any flavor. However the sweet chili sauce was the one that made this dish excellent. BLT sandwich: good. The ham looked very much like the real meat. It came with potato chips. My friend said the sandwich was good. He finished it all. Beef stew noodle: very good. The broth was a little sweet, sour and spicy. It had a hint of five spice and anise. The noodles had no flavor but went well with the broth. The fake beef was soft. It was a very big portion dish. Opera cake: excellent. The chocolate ganache was soft and not super sweet. The chocolate cake was rich and not too dry. The sponge cake was dry since it had no eggs but the vegan butter cream did compliment the dryness. The chocolate syrup added more richness to the cake. Highly recommend this cake. Ginger hot tea: ok, not too sweet. Lavender milk tea: not recommend it. It tasted like black tea with milk. No lavender smell at all. Overall, it was a good dinner. Even the price was a little high, I still recommend...

Came here with a 4 other coworkers for lunch. This is my to go place, a vegan-only restaurant close to my work and probably the only one close by to San Jose airport area. So I suggested this place to my coworkers. Charlene greeted us and provided us with the menu and also gave us suggestions about what is very popular. She was an excellent host! Thanks for snapping our group picture as well!

This place is small but very cozy. There is probably enough seating for maybe 15 or so people indoors and several more outdoors.

Food is very delicious. I love that there are so many options here from Italian cuisine (pasta, etc), to American (burgers, fries), boba, ice cream and so much more.

I always enjoy supporting such excellent vegan only, cruelty free businesses and would definitely recommend this one to others...