Ethiopian

The atmosphere is fine, it is a fairly large room behind the grocery store. The service was good, a friendly woman who was attentive and our food arrived about 10 minutes after ordering. There were two other tables when we went. I’ve eaten at many different Ethiopian restaurants in different cities and unfortunately the food at this one wasn’t up to par. We ordered a combination and found the flavors on both the lentils and the one meat we had to be very bland. The collards were fairly cold and weren’t as cooked as we are used to. The injera was very thin and didn’t taste as soured as we tend to prefer. Overall, I’d suggest going elsewhere to satisfy an Ethiopian craving.

I really enjoy this place. The food is always good and the ground fava beans are by far my favorite part. My boyfriend is a big fan of the lentils. We come two or three times a month and get two platters, then take home the leftovers because this stuff is amazing even reheated at home. Don’t come for the atmosphere (there isn’t much) — come for the delicious food.

Ethiopian food is by far one of my favorite cuisines and to find a place in my hometown while visiting was so exciting. I ordered the vegetarian platter which was most delicious. I also purchased a few of my favorite Ethiopian spices. There weren’t any other patrons in the restaurant. I was not surprised as many folks are not familiar with Ethiopian food. My hopes are that this place attracts more people to enjoy such special flavors that Ethiopian cuisine has to offer.

One Vegan Friendly menu item!
This little business is not fancy but has a very polite staff and for Ethiopian food has reasonable prices. Item #6 of their (9?) item menu is their vegetarian plate, that is vegan, that Orthodox Christian Ethiopians eat during the fasting season. Served on a platter on teff bread, you are NOT given silverware and eat with your hands. You are given a generous amount of bread in which to stuff the ingredients and we were told the bread is made fresh daily.
There was a very thick gravy to provide some mild spicy flavor. There was a scoop of potatoes and carrots, a scoop of collards and a scoop of lentils. It was mildly spicy, NOT spicy if you like really spicy food. While the portions were certainly adequate for lunch and I left very full, it was NOT so much that I was able to bring any home with me.
You enter through the store to get to the small restaurant of about 6 tables and we were the only ones there Saturday for lunch. The store opens at 10am but the restaurant opens at 11am. We were able to get tap water in a plastic glass and I also ordered a can of soda for .50 cents. They warned us when ordering that it would take 15 minutes to prepare the food which was fine with us.
This was my first exposure to Ethiopian food so I cannot comment on it relative to other like meals. It was nice to try vegan food from another culture.

The service was very welcoming and warm and food is delicious!

I’ve eaten in many Ethiopian restaurant in the past. I went there for lunch the other day and quite frankly, I was very disappointed. I ordered the vegetarian platter which came on injera bread. Much of the food was not even thoroughly heated and lacked many of the wonderful spices that usually accompany this type of food.

Flew in tonight to Omaha and wanted to get something decent to eat. I went through Unilocal and found this place. I love good Ethiopian food so I thought I would give this place a try. When I arrived, the restaurant was packed with a religious gathering.
I was told to take an empty seat and sat there for a bit before anyone offered me a menu. Apparently, this place can not sell beer. I asked for a glass of water. They do not offer their patrons water or anything. You can only get bottled water. This has to be the first place ever inside the US that I have not gotten a glass of water at a restaurant. The hostess explained to me that they do not offer tap water due to many broken glass. I order the Ethiopian spice tea. They should change the name of this from spice tea to sweet tea. It was just pure sugar. I could not taste any spice in the tea.
I ordered the lamb dish which was pretty good. While eating my dinner, the owners and the group performed some religious ceremony, one of the owners lit something that made the whole place smokey.
Overall the food was not to bad but all the other issue took away from my dining experience.

I come here at least 4 times a week and it’s amazing every single time. Seriously. I’ve been coming here for years and nothing has changed. I want to bring Fatima to my house so she can cook for me!

I have been here about a year ago and need to go again before I can do a review that gives it justice. It’s family run, and like other Ethiopian restaurants is attached to a little market. The food platters are very large and can easily be shared. Prices are cheap. and honestly, you havent lived if you havent eaten in a hole in a wall like this. I hope to eat here soon and update!!!

A quirky set-​up that doesn’t scream good food from the street unless you’re thinking «I want to eat in the side room of a generic ethnic market» in which case you probably spotted this place right away. I had my first taste of Ethiopian food in Denver on the wonderful, colorful Colfax strip in an area that desperately calls itself GreekTown but is truly Little Ethiopia.
Ok my mind wandered a little. So after tasting injera (a staple bread in Ethiopian cuisine (made with tef, the smallest grain in the world) that has a wonderful sourdough flavor) I fell in love.
If you’re not used to eating with your hand remember to wash your hands first. We witnessed people constantly getting up and washing their hands and alternately talking on their cells — which I guess explains why they kept having to wash their hands. The food is usually served family style on a ginat platter covered with the injera. More injera is served with the meal and used to eat the food.
At the end of the meal I like to roll the different dishes up in the remaining injera that has been soaking up all the good spices and juices and eat it like a burrito. I’m that classy!
The wet tibs are yummy and any of the veg platters have been very satisfying and let you sample different flavors.

An immediate entrant onto my list of best-​named restaurants of all time. Just a notch behind African American Restaurant of Bronx, NY.
A couple of things are really great about this place.
1) They don’t serve alcohol. While I do love alcohol, its absence here means that management is most interested in catering to Ethiopians who want a taste of home.
2) Plenty of berbere and mitmita. Luckily, abundant spice neither numbs the tongue nor hides the fact that the food is fresh. And the food is fresh.
On the other hand, too much injera in the tibs. Good work on the lentils and greens, but we need something acidic on the vegetable side.
Small quibbles. I hope places like this continue to eat cities alive. Especially cities in states with executive bummers like Dave Heineman. This is what America needs.
PS Good for kids? Absolutely. Don’t make them wait until they’re 27 to try this stuff. You shouldn’t let your adult kid feel like Magellan because he ate food from another country one time in Omaha after you spent 18 years feeding him Lunchables and pap.

I’ve got to say I wasn’t a huge fan of my food.
That’s absolutely ok though, because it’s the first time I’ve had Ethiopian food, and I will be back again. I’m a foodie, not a jerk. One meal that doesn’t satisfy doesn’t scare me off at all.
Very affordable and authentic.

You know when people say things like «I felt like I was stealing, it was so cheap»? Well if you’re headed here get ready for that feeling + awkward silent dining + confusion about what you’re ordering at first.
The good news though, is that all adds up to amazing in my book. Even though I wish it had a scrap more ambiance (which probably would have pushed this up to a 5-​star). Granted I don’t normally care too much about that sort of thing, but this was notable in its nothingness. White walls, no background noise (though a TV did sit dormant on the wall), and at one point we the only diners in attendance. I almost felt the need to whisper…
When you enter through the market, the restaurant lurks off to your right behind a curtain in all its tasty wonder.
I think we tried to order the Mahibrawi, which they were out of close to the end of the day, and ended up with an order of Doro Wat (stewed chicken leg and hard-​boiled egg) with miscellaneous piles of veggies… peas, beans, lentils, and collard greens. All served on top of — and with — injera bread.
Note that if you’re someone who always has to know specifically what you’re eating, or aren’t into sharing… this might not be for you.
Ultimately, who am I kidding, ask me to use flatbread as a utensil and you have me hooked.
The two of us ate it all, though there was a definitely fullness it wasn’t uncomfortable. The coffee was also a surprising kick in the mouth (in the good way).
And after all that, our check came up to something like $ 14. So the moral of the story is… don’t order based on what you think you’d ‘normally’ be getting for the price, and plan on sharing!

Not sure what kind of crack most of these people were on when they went here but this place is not good. The two star is only because I do think that the food is very authentic and the atmosphere is kind of cool just because it is so weird.
Service: Very personal, maybe too much. The waiter told us that the sponge bread if left out molds very quickly, I think he was trying to state how fresh it was but it really just made me think «Am I eating wet soggy mold right now».
Food: BLAND. We ordered a ton of stuff, veggie platter, lamb, and more. It’s like someone took the food from Mother India and stripped it of flavor then dumped it onto a wet towel for you to eat. I felt bad because the waiter was nice so I ate most of the food even though it was nasty. My wife and my friend were all looking at eachother trying not to laugh at how bad it was. We took home leftovers but they went straight to the trash.
If you are into really authentic food you may appreciate this place but it is seriously lacking in flavor. It is pretty cheap if you feel like filling your belly with sog.

A second visit and I’m still as charmed as ever. The split peas are a serious treat, not to mention the lentils and I love the sweetness of the carrots. I must say, however, that the vegetarian platter is too big for two people, no matter how hungry or how much of an olympic eater you think you are. So get ready to be eating the leftovers for at least the next three days, I’m on day two and I’m uh, pretty into it to say the least.
Go!

As described before this place is barely a restaurant, just an adjacent room to a small grocery store. As such the service and décor are non existent. The menu is truly limited. The food is solid but nothing extraordinary. Yet, it’s really really really cheap and you can have a different experience: sharing a common plate and eating with your fingers. We had one of the combination plate for $ 12 that can feed 2 persons. The injar (bread) and vegetables (lentils, corn, collard greens, potato and carrots) were good, the lamb on the bone was just OK.
To sum up, cheap place to try different food and have a different dining experience but nothing extraordinary.

Love the place, not very decorated, mostly plain white walls, but the food is awesome. The service was very friendly and speedy. He was very open in explaining their culture which I found sweet.
If you are looking for a place is overly culturally adorned, go to the «trying too hard to look like an ethnic restaurant that serves nothing resembling anything but straight on American» places.
If you are looking for truly ethnic and authentic, very tasty and flavorful, and enjoy eating without silverware — eat here!

I LOOOOVE this place!!! I have eaten at several Ethiopian restaurants and this is by far one of my favorites. One thing I really like is the Injira. At most Ethiopian places I’ve been, Injira is very sour (as it is suppose to be), however this particular store only let’s the injira rise for a day instead of several days causing it not to have a sour taste, which I personally prefer. The people working there are super friendly and will talk to you about the food or Ethiopia. I ALWAYS get the veggie platter and I have to share it with someone because a single order is huge! The prices are really cheap and the only thing you have to be careful of is going to late in the day. The owners cook food daily so everything is fresh and if they run out, they run out and you’ll have to come again. This has happened to me a couple of times so if I go at night I just call to make sure they are still serving food.
If you are ever in need for an Ethiopian fix or would like to try something very different and new, give this place a chance!!!

Awesome food and great enviornment. We went there after reading other reviews here on Unilocal and having been to an ethopian resturant before in NYC we were amped to try this place. We were not dissapointed. Good stuff!

Hours are 10 – 7 Sat-​Thurs, closed Friday (if we read the sign right — it was crossed out a couple of times).
There are only about 6 items on the menu, but the lamb pleased my dining companion, and the vegetarian platter pleased me. (I’d had Ethiopian before; he had not.) The yellow dal was just a little chewy, but tasty, and the chopped greens were pretty good (and I usually hate chopped greens).
It was apparently Ethiopian Easter the day we were there, so it was one guy running the grocery, running the restaurant, and probably cooking as well. He maintained his composure and the service was good, though he forgot all about our drinks (we didn’t mind; it sounded like they would just have been bottled beverages from the grocery). I think they’re too small to have a liquor license so no honey wine.
The grocery is worth checking out; there were some ingredients I often pick up at Indian groceries (apricot paste! whole coriander!), some interesting-​looking filigree gold jewelry, and some giant loaves of homemade flat circular bread, packed in plastic bags, that looked really tasty.