Cafe Ono

Cafe Ono sits inside Volcano Garden Arts on Old Volcano Road, on a Volcano Village estate that artist Ira Ono has shaped for more than four decades. The cafe is small, vegetarian, open Thursday through Sunday from 11 to 2, and runs a plant-based seasonal menu out of a kitchen that has been quietly farm-to-table since before the term was overused. Locally grown coffee and tea hold the bar. The dining room opens onto the gardens, ceramics, and outdoor sculpture that visitors came up the mountain to see anyway. The crowd is Volcano residents on their day off, art handlers, and travelers who routed through the village before or after the park. Ira has put the property up for sale, so the room reads a little more like a chapter closing than a chapter beginning. Order a garden salad with the soup of the day if you want the cafe's quiet rhythm. Order the locally grown coffee if you came for the village more than the park.