Ethiopian restaurants in USA
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Meskerem
As you make your way across DC, you’ll see loads of places offering Ethiopian food, but Meskerem, named for the first month of the Ethiopian calendar, remains one of our favorites. This spot is a stalwart of quality despite many years on the block. It’s the just-seared lamb served in spicy sauce, the wat (stew) scooped with spongy injera (pancake-like bread) and the vegetables, all deliciously spiced, not hot but rich, complex and savory. This is remarkably easy food for the most conservative palette, best washed down with some imported honey wine.
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Axum Cafe
Whether you've got a hot date with a vegan, the hunger of an athlete or the salary of an activist, Axum's vegetarian platter for two with spongy injera bread is your saving grace. Dig in with your bare hands, and try not to hog lip-tingling red lentils and mellow yellow chickpeas.
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Abay
This funky spot features great Ethiopian cuisine from chicken- to lentil-based stews, all served with a particularly good version of that spongy, delicious injera bread instead of cutlery.
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Blue Nile
Serves great Ethiopian food in a peaceful, pleasant setting.
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Abay Market
Tucked into a strip mall between a bunch of hideous apartment blocks and corporate towers is the best Ethiopian food we’ve had in the metro area. Abay is the real deal, run by an Ethiopian former air-force officer, with clientele straight out of Addis and food that will no doubt blow your mind – if you’re adventurous. Because this ain’t for the faint of heart. Abay specializes in raw or barely cooked meat, either ground up and cooked with spices (and, according to the owner, a bit of Coca-Cola), kifto style, or served in intimidating, chewy, and for our money, delicious slabs, yellow fat still definitely attached. The above comes with a very soft cheese that adds…
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Addis Red Sea
An excellent introduction to Ethiopian food. Take a seat at a tiny table and soak up the exotic ambience at this authentic African eatery. Most entrées are served atop a spongy bread; tear off a piece and use it to scoop up the spicy beef, lamb, chicken and veggie stews. Finish off your meal with honey wine.
The warm and welcoming staff will offer recommendations if you don’t know how to order.
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Caffé Adulis
This jewel of a place offers Eritrean-Ethiopian cuisine in a sophisticated but unerringly friendly package. One of the many house specialties is the shrimp barka (pan-seared jumbo shrimp with coconut, tomato and dates over basmati rice, $19). The wine list is reason enough to linger late into the evening – the bar is open until 1am.
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Sheba
The only Ethiopian place in Miami is a godsend for vegetarians, especially vegans (although there’s meat here too). If you eat here, eat right; communally. Grab a big plate of injera (spongy bread), which serves as plate, utensil and starch, and scoop up spicy mounds of the many delicious varieties of wat (Ethiopian stew).
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Zed's Ethiopian Cuisine
Of the dozens of Ethiopian restaurants scattered around the district, Zed's has the distinction of being the Ethiopian Embassy's host for official dinners. In a classic two-story Georgetown townhouse on a quiet side street, this restaurant serves hearty, spicy dishes that you eat with your fingers or dip into with spongy flat bread.
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Dukem
Delicious Ethiopian cooking, including spicy chicken, lamb and vegetarian dishes, all sopped up with spongy flatbread. There's live music some evenings.
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Etete
In the small ethnic enclave sometimes called 'Little Ethiopia,' Etete serves authentic and high-quality food – fiery yebeg wat (spicy lamb stew), tender golden tibs (marinated short beef ribs), bountiful vegetarian platters and tangy injera (spongy flatbread) for soaking it all up. Culinary archrival Dukem is up the street.
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Abyssinia Ethiopian Restaurant
Excellent foul madamas (bean dip) and good brunch with a recommended bar upstairs.
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