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Menu

Vegetarian and Vegan

1. Gomen

$11.95/+
Lunch - $11.95 | Dinner - $12.95 • Fresh collard greens cooked and seasoned with onion, ginger, and garlic.

2. Misir Watt

$11.95/+
Lunch - $11.95 | Dinner - $12.95 • A stew made from red lentils cooked with sauteed onions and berbere, then flavored with ginger, garlic, and cardamom.

3. Atikeltt

$11.95/+
Lunch - $11.95 | Dinner - $12.95 • Cabbage mixed with chucks of potatoes and carrots cooked with yellow onion and flavored with ginger, garlic, and turmeric.

4. Yekik Watt

$11.95/+
Lunch - $11.95 | Dinner - $12.95 • Seasoned yellow split peas slowly cooked with ginger, turmeric and garlic.

5. Fosolia

$12.95/+
Lunch - $12.95 | Dinner - $13.95 • Fresh green beens and carrots cooked with onions, fresh garlic, turmeric, ginger and a touch of cardamom.

6. Inguday Watt

$12.95/+
Lunch - $12.95 | Dinner - $13.95 • Sliced button mushrooms and julienned onion sauteed and simmered in Misir Watt. Vegan, gluten free.

7. Dinich Watt

$11.95/+
Lunch - $11.95 | Dinner - $12.95 • Chunks of potatoes cooked with garlic seasoned in tomatoes and berbere sauce

8. Shimbera Watt

$12.95/+
Lunch - $12.95 | Dinner - $13.95 • Chickpeas and green peas simmered in a gravy made with diced tomatoes, onions, and roasted and powdered peas.
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9. Veggie Combination

$12.95/+
Lunch - $12.95 | Dinner - $13.95 • Your choice of 4 vegan items.

21. Vegetarian Sampler

$23.95/+
Lunch - $23.95 | Dinner - $24.95 • Vegetarian items from entrees 1-8 • For Two.

Meats

10. Doro Watt

$12.95/+
Lunch - $12.95 | Dinner - $14.95 • Tender skinless and boneless chicken marinated in lemon, sauteed in herbed butter and stewed in berbere sauce flavored with a pinch of cardamon and nutmeg.

11. Doro Tibs

$12.95/+
Lunch - $12.95 | Dinner - $15.95 •Tender chicken breast cut into cubes sauteed to perfection with onions, diced tomatoes, kibbeh (seasoned butter) and herbs. Served Mild, Medium or Hot.

12. Yesiga Tibs

$14.95/+
Lunch - $14.95 | Dinner - $16.95 • Strips of lean beef sauteed in kibbeh (seasoned butter) with diced tomatoes, garlic, onions, peppers, and fresh rosemary. Served Mild, Medium or Hot.

13. Tibbs Watt

$15.95/+
Lunch - $15.95 | Dinner - $17.95 • Lean strips of beef, slowly simmered in a sauce made with finely chopped onions, berbere, and tomatoes until tender, then seasoned with garlic, cardamom, mekelesha spice, and kibbeh.

15. Yebeg Tibs

$15.95/+
Lunch - $15.95 | Dinner - $17.95 • Lean cubes of lamb sauteed in seasoned kibbeh butter with garlic, diced tomatoes, bell peppers and fresh rosemary. Served Mild, Medium or Hot.

16. Yebeg Watt Alicha

$13.95/+
Lunch - $13.95 | Dinner - $15.95 • Cubes of lamb, slowly simmered into a stew with onions, garlic, ginger, turmeric and kibbeh butter. Served mild.
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19. Sampler Platter

$35.95/+
Lunch: $35.95 | Dinner: $37.95 • A platter featuring items 1 through 8, 10, 13, 16. For two.
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20. Meat Combo

$14.95/+
Lunch: $14.95 | Dinner: $17.95 • A platter featuring items 1, 2, 3, 10, 13. For one person.

Appetizers

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Veggie Sambusa

$5.95/+
Lunch: $5.95 | Dinner: $6.95 • A pastry filled with spiced lentils, cabbage, and carrot flavored with herbs and spices. With Blue Nile special sauce. (two)
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Duba Shorba

$5.95/+
Lunch: $5.95 | Dinner:$ 6.95 • Butternut squash and red lentil soup seasoned with exotic-spices.

Desserts

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Rice Pudding

$3.50
Lunch: $3.50 | Dinner: $3.50 • Our homemade rice pudding. A popular dessert with our guests.
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Baklava

$4.50
Lunch: $4.50 | Dinner: $4.50 • A rich, sweet dessert pastry made of layers of filo filled with chopped nuts and sweetened and held together with Syrup or Frosting or Honey.
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Flourless Chocolate Cake

A delicious slice of chocolate cake.
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