Cha Cha Cha’s Caribbean cuisine makes comeback at Sangria & Salt on Mission St.

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Jonathan S. Young stands beside the bar inside Sangria & Salt, his new Caribbean restaurant in the longtime former Cha Cha Cha site on Mission Street. The bar at Sangria & Salt that is rumored to be the longest one on the west coast. Yalcin closed the Mission Cha Cha Cha in 2022, reopened it in 2023, then sold both it and its Haight Street location to Onur “Oz” Ozkaynak, who put the Mission business (but not the name) up for sale in December 2024. Beneath the counter, peeking out from between the high-top chairs, is a freshly painted mural by artist Melanie Getman, who lived upstairs from Cha Cha Cha’s for many years. In March 2020 he went on to open his first restaurant, Hot Johnnie’s, but then pivoted to Hot Johnnie’s pop-up events due to the pandemic.