“Vegetarian stews are eaten by hand with spongy injera bread at this modest Ethiopian eatery.”
When the advertising caption blatantly reads fork-free dining, they mean it.
Our table party of four were not given any utensils when ordering a vegetable combo sample platter to split. However, this vegetarian sampler was quite delightful even without commonplace utensils!
This was an authentic Ethiopian vegetarian combo platter that features eight different samples of various dips and dishes that include but is not limited to: spinach, cabbage, assumably lentils, and some beans. So many colorful flavors and varying experiences for the tongue, and all served atop a giant wheel of injera, as pictured, and served with an extra ribbon-folded side of injera. It was so simple and yet so good.
The restaurant itself was a bit tricky looking to enter because it appears from the outside that the brick stairs go straight from the sidewalk above directly into the front door. Only in NYC would pathways be so precarious and yet somehow legal! All in all, really good vegetarian food, especially considering my non-vegetarian friends in company approved of the meal with an unbiased opinion. I haven’t done any reading on Ethiopian vegetarian food in all honesty, so I wouldn’t dare make up any false information on flavoring spices and such to describe why the food was so enjoyable, but if you consider yourself not picky, and don’t have food allergies, I would certainly recommend checking out this dig for some ethnic experience in vegetarian cuisine. Sometimes it’s best getting back to the basics and tasting the rainbow without the burden of a fork. 😉
Happy eating!
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