Ever eat at an Ethiopian restaurant?
 

I'm taking my wife to one this weekend. She's never been and is in for a heck of meal...

I've been to one of the Ethiopian places here a couple times.

I love sega wat and kitfo...

She is having a hard time wrapping her head around the idea of eating the "plate" and eating with her fingers...haha


I remember one time naively ordering Yemiser W'et with extra spice....I couldn't breathe for about 10 minutes after eating it...I love spicy food, but this was extremely pungent and wickedly spicy...

Just google imaged it.. looks like it will make you EXPLODE.

Ethiopan food is wonderful. I don't eat it an awful lot and I find there aren't many places that do it well but when it's good it's damn good.

If you want to try something that with rival anything for spice ask a real Indian restaurant (I mean one being run by people from India) try order a Vindaloo "Indian Hot". It'll wake you up in the middle of the night thinking you swallowed a volcano.

It's definitely adventurous eating...
a bunch of stews served in dishes and no utensils...just injera (flat bread) to tear off into pieces and use to scoop up/grab eat the stews...

mud cakes and jenkem are a nice touch

I did One time and never again.

what did you order?

I ate at a place one time that instead of the towel/hot water to wash your hands before eating, they just had a jug of purell that the waitress passed around...It was strange

haha yes actually.. think i had the something chicken with that strange pita/bread

Ethiopian is probably my favorite cuisine. The spices are unusual, the presentation unusual. It's perfect for a date or taking people you really want to connect with. It's impossible to not interact and socialize while eating out of the same family style platter with your hands.

The beef dish with berbere sauce is my favorite (it has many names - my favorite place calls it "ziggni").

Get some Tej (honey wine) while you're there.

back in college I used to eat at the Blue Nile ethiopian restaurant on Telegraph avenue in Berkeley a few blocks from campus. Great restaurant. You eat with your hands. Not a big deal with me cuz I'm Pinoy.

I believe it's closed now. Sad. Blue Nile had great food.

Yum. Injera is like a spongy sourdough pancake - I get it in a shop locally - fun to use.

Love Ethiopian food and there are plenty of great spots in Seattle.

would that be two empty plates?

Yup Good stuff if you like Mediterranean and middle eastern food

Sure have.....and was pleasantly surprised that it involved a lot of food. lol
http://ethiopianrestauranttampa.com/
I hope your experience was as good as mine was.

There was an Ethiopian restaurant across the road from me when i lived in San Jose. Loved it.

and some pond water

tony ..... :1orglaugh

Yes, once. After we ordered our food we just waited and waited for what seemed like forever until from seemingly out of nowhere a bag of rice just landed on the table with a big thud. Scared the fuck out of me.

i havent...ill have to try it out sometime

My girl dragged me to one, I cracked the same type of joke before we went and she actually got genuinely mad at me, called me immature.:1orglaugh I don't like the shit. They served it on a pizza tray, it was this lime flavored flatbread - that covered the whole tray - with rice, lamb and some other stuff dumped on it. Not my cup of tea.

Really? Closed? Very sad... When OP was writing I was back at the Blue Nile in my mind...that was a great place. Ethiopian food rocks...

lol. I also had a gf get mad at me when I first made up that story about 10 years ago.
I actuallyreally like Ethiopian food. Meskerem in the village.

. . . . neither have they?

The place I go to here imports their Injera flour directly from Ethiopia...I was talking with the owner one time and he said using buckwheat flour like a lot of places do isn't quite the same feel/texture/taste.

We have a nice little place downtown that is one of my favourite restaurants in the city. Hard to get people out to give it a try though..

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

oo i feel terrible for laughing

i prefer poo..

Yeah, I was resistant at first, then gave in and gave it a try and now I go 5-6 times a year...

World's fastest land animal = Ethiopian chicken.

:D

post some photos of recommended dishes, too lazy to google now

Not a fan of other people sticking their dirty fingers in my food

Love it!
What is your favorite local place here in Vegas?

Maybe only dine only with those of good hygiene! :thumbsup

for some reason i always leave those places still hungry.. ;)

guess the race.

Dokem, used to be called Axum...over in the ghetto off Sierra Vista/Twan/Maryland area...ghetto neighborhood, but fantastic food.

Meskerem is ok, but the service isn't as good...

:1orglaugh

I "adopted" an Ethiopian but they never sent it, so haven't tried yet.

last time i went and ordered a ethiopian dish muther fuckers brought out this :disgust :helpme


http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/el...on-a-plate.jpg

I agree. When I go to "foreign" restaurants I always ask them if I can have their wonderful special meals on a normal dish with knife and fork. If they make a problem about that, I won't eat there. Since I'm the paying customer I expect them to adapt to me, I really can't be bothered to adapt to far away cultures in my own country especially when I'm hungry. I want to eat without having to think or worry and I don't want to see someone else coming back from the toilet and sticking his fingers in my food :1orglaugh

We had one around the corner in London - I have to admit it was scary spicy food.

I loved the bread, but the meat dishes killed.

When I first heard of the concept of Ethiopian food restaurants years ago, I thought the idea was grimly hilarious. But that is some seriously delicious food. I love variety in spices and I love eating with my fingers, so that is just a big win in my book.

so you are going to a restaurant to eat dust

I ate dog once in the Philippines