Location: Ginowan, on the 81, if driving east it is after the House of 66 cents and Tetera (the place with 3 tacos on top of the restaurant), but if you pass Pao you've gone too far
Hours: 11:30 to 9p, unsure which day closed
Cafe Unizon appears to have been dropped out of a trendy downtown right onto a road bordering Camp Buckner. The decor is post-industrial warehouse; the bottom floor is a trendy and pricey home furnishings / design store. Up the stairs, the second floor has a Soho loft feeling, more fancy furniture, and the cafe. The restaurant has a nice view over the base and Hamby out to the ocean, and is furnished with the same beautiful but uncomfortable sofas and chairs you see in the showroom. They have design and photography books and magazines to browse.
This place does vegetarian food - for real, no meat. The dish-of-the-day (1000Y) was a subtly flavored vegetable potage, which comes in a bowl along with a plate of brown rice and veggie side dishes. This included a salad with a yummy tahini-based dressing, and about 5 different mini veggie dishes: long bean tempura, carrots with tofu sauce, spinach and enoki mushrooms, fried fermented tofu, tofu with simmered daikon, curried potato. The fermented tofu / tofu sauce flavor is unusual, and unpleasant if not accustomed. The vegetable-curry-of-the-day (850Y) was a tasty but watery thai/indian curry, with real fennel seed and cardamom pod. This also came with a plate of brown rice and salad, with different mini veggie side dishes. These were nicer: curried kabocha pumpkin, curried carrot slaw, fried taro root.
The menu also features Jamaican couscous (750Y) and a thai rice bowl (?850Y). Drinks are pricey - >450Y for various coffees and teas.
For our money, Pao and Tida do a better cafe lunch. But vegetarians have few options on this island, and this is a decent one. Quite creative.
