Cha Cha's Latin Kitchen
Fresh California-Latin Kitchen
110 W Birch Street
Brea, CA 92821
Phone: 714.255.1040
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Lunch $15 / Dinner $20
Online Reservations

Lunch $15
Add A Classic Award-Winning Margarita for $5

Choose One Of The Following Starters 

Caesar Salad
House-made cilantro-pepita dressing tossed with hearts of Romaine, crisp tortillas & Cotija cheese
&
Traditional Tortilla Soup
Fresh chicken, tortillas, roasted tomato & chilie, simmered in house-made broth, served with crema fresca

Choose On Of The Following Entrees

Any Two Tacos with Salsa Rice and Black Beans

Tacos  (Select any two)
Soft organic corn tortillas, fresh cilantro & onion with carnitas, carne asada, chicken, fresh fish, shrimp or portabella mushrooms, served with rice & beans

Cheese Enchiladas
Oaxacan, Cotija and Jack cheeses with tomatillo-poblano sauce.  A Cha Cha’s favorite!

Crab & Shrimp Enchilada
Crab & Shrimp sautéed with garlic, white wine, poblano peppers; served
with creamy habanero pesto sauce

Roasted Chicken
Jidori chicken marinated in Yuctan spices, roasted fresh daily served
with fresh seasonal vegetables, homemade salsas & corn tortillas

“Wood-Oven” Carnitas
Slow braised, marinated pork with achiote onion, fresh salsas,
black beans, rice and corn tortillas

Fresh Grilled Salmon
Chipotle-honey glazed on a bed of roasted potatoes, fresh corn and pasilla chilis

Please no splitting or sharing
 





Dinner $20
Add A Classic Margarita for $5

Classic Margarita
Chosen as the “Critic’s Choice” for Best Margarita in Orange County by the Orange County Register

Choice of one appetizer:

Traditional Tortilla Soup
Fresh chicken, tortillas, roasted tomato & chile simmered in homemade broth served with crema fresco

Chicken Flautas
Fresh chicken, roasted corn, guajillo chile, Oaxacan cheese in crsip flour tortillas; served with mango habanero salsa

Caeser Salad
Homemade cilantro-pepita dressing tossed with hearts of Romaine,
crisp tortillas & Cojita cheese

Choice of one Entree

Crab & Shrimp Enchilada
Crab & Shrimp sautéed with garlic, white wine, poblano peppers; served with creamy habanero pesto sauce

Carne Asada
Grilled, marinated skirt steak with roasted Yukon Gold potatoes, poblano peppers & fresh chimichurri

Fresh Mahi Mahi
Pan roasted & served with sautéed calabasitas & fresh corn, drizzled with lime herb vinaigrette

Roasted Chicken
Jidori chicken marinated in Yuctan spices, roasted fresh daily served with fresh seasonal vegetables, homemade salsas & corn tortillas

“Wood-Oven” Carnitas
Slow braised, marinated pork with achiote onion, fresh salsas,black beans, rice and corn tortillas

Choice of one dessert:

Flan
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Tres Leches Cake
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Chocolate Banana "Taquitos"

Please no splitting or sharing

Chef Joseph Martinez

Question: How long have you been a chef?
Answer:  Five years

Question: How long have you been at this restaurant?
Answer: Since Cha Cha’s opening in August of 2009

Question: Who or what inspired you to become a chef?
Answer:  My Great Grandmother, Grandmother and mother all inspired me to become a chef.  Growing up, I would watch them spend hours in the kitchen cooking delicious Mexican meals and having the time of their lives doing it.  The smiles on our families faces when the meal was served was all they needed in return for their efforts.  The Holiday’s were especially fun to watch the women of my family cook.

Question: What do you enjoy most about your profession?
Answer:  The freedom to express my creativity and working with others that share the same passion for food.

Question: When you’re not in the kitchen what are you doing?
Answer:  Playing all sports and working on vintage cars.  My Grandfather owned a garage where all of the men in my family had their cars in various stages of restoration garaged there and that is where I spent my weekends.

Question: What is your most popular dish?
Answer:  I most proud of my “Chipotle-Honey-Glazed Atlantic Salmon”  IT is well-received by our guests at Cha Cha’s and has grown in popularity to the point where it is in the top five entrees sold.

Question: Your last meal on Earth would be?
Answer:  A pound of thick-cut, maple-cured Newske bacon and some Kennebeck-Potato Hashbrowns.

Question: What's your favorite item on the Restaurant Week Menu?
Answer:  Our Chipotle Honey Glazed Salmon; it is quickly becoming a Cha Cha’s Classic dish and our most popular seafood item.  The great thing about the glaze is the balance of sweet and spicy with that fabulous Salmon flavor; pulls the whole dish together.  You would not believe there are only three ingredients in that glaze when you taste it; awesome dish!