The Ethiopian Restaurant in the Fort

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The Ethiopian Restaurant in the Fort

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Anyone try this yet? It's over on State and Coliseum across from the Walgreens (or CVS?). I haven't been there yet, but my GF told me about it this morning and I'm looking to check it out this weekend.

I had Ethiopian a few months ago when I was in Belgium, and I think it was one of the better meals I had over in Europe. Not that the Belgian food wasn't great (it was incredible) but the Ethiopian food was one of the more unique things I've had. It's fun to eat with your hands too!
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I liked it.
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An Ethiopian restaurant? I really don't think I am going to pay money to sit in dirt with flies on my face and starve...

On a serious note, is that similar to Indian food...lots of sauces and such?
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Insight please? Some examples of Ethiopian quisine please?
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Here's how I had it in Europe:

It was a little cleaner than Ethiopia (at least my generalized overview from what I've seen on the news). My friend and I ordered a dinner with a variety of meat seasoned in different ways (most similar to Indian, I would say). The platter was probably the size of an x-large pizza pan with flat bread covering the surface. The bread was thin, soft, and kind of spongy...very good. Circling the outside of the pan was where the meat was. One of the meats was Lamb another was a chicken leg with a boiled egg (I remember this had a BBQ taste to it), then I believe there were four servings of beef all seasoned differently. So if you like meat seasoned with garlic, turmeric, ginger, jalapeno, other spices, then you'd probably dig it. Oh yeah. It has little rolls of the flat bread in between all of the meat which is what you scoop the meat up with, and then enjoy. Overall, it tasted a little different than other things I've had. I'd say most similar to Indian seasoning, but a different style.

The stuff I had wasn't too saucy, just seasoned. That way you could eat it with the flat bread.
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Well, I may have to try this out...its at least worth a taste.
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vegetarian friendly?
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Morphine Child wrote:Here's how I had it in Europe:

It was a little cleaner than Ethiopia (at least my generalized overview from what I've seen on the news). My friend and I ordered a dinner with a variety of meat seasoned in different ways (most similar to Indian, I would say). The platter was probably the size of an x-large pizza pan with flat bread covering the surface. The bread was thin, soft, and kind of spongy...very good. Circling the outside of the pan was where the meat was. One of the meats was Lamb another was a chicken leg with a boiled egg (I remember this had a BBQ taste to it), then I believe there were four servings of beef all seasoned differently. So if you like meat seasoned with garlic, turmeric, ginger, jalapeno, other spices, then you'd probably dig it. Oh yeah. It has little rolls of the flat bread in between all of the meat which is what you scoop the meat up with, and then enjoy. Overall, it tasted a little different than other things I've had. I'd say most similar to Indian seasoning, but a different style.

The stuff I had wasn't too saucy, just seasoned. That way you could eat it with the flat bread.
thanks,....got a linky to this by chance?,...would love to see a menu!
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I haven't been able to find a website for it yet.

I'm not sure if it's vegetarian or not.
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I ate Ethiopian food once and was not a big fan of it.
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ethiopian cuisine just seems ironic.
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I'm heading over there to try it tonight, so I'll post more this evening or tomorrow.
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I hit it up last night, and it was pretty similar to the one I went to in Europe. It was GREAT too.

The food wasn't too spicy (even my girlfriend who hates spicy food said it could be spicier?), but was flavored deliciously. We had a chicken dish and a lamb dish. The chicken dish (which I think is E-2 on the menu) was really good. It had a nice flavor, and is served as a chicken leg with a boiled egg in a green pepper, garlic, and a few other seasonings sauce.

The lamb was different than I was expecting. It had lamb, lots of the spongy bread that I referred to earlier, and turmeric...though I can't remember the other seasonings. I recommend the Chicken dish, and the beef dishes that I saw the other people eating looked good too.

Overall it was a good dining experience. The guy that serves is really nice, I think he runs the place. If you're up for something new, give it a shot. The environment is non-Ethiopian, that would be the only kind of neat thing if they were to change it. But I suppose when I go to Taste of India, it's not overly India in there. But the food is amazing.
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Good review, but how rough is the porcelain pony ride in the morning?
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sevesd93 wrote:Good review, but how rough is the porcelain pony ride in the morning?
haha!

Over the years I've adapted to Indian and Thai food rather well, and this was minor compared to those two. I spent a few weeks living on the East Coast with two Pakistani/Indian families while we were on tour and I ate nothing but Pakistani and Indian food the whole time. Well, I think we had Pizza Hut one night, but every other day it was authentic cuisine. I honestly didn't have any sort of problems those two weeks. I was especially worried when we were eating that stuff then playing shows in NYC. Have you ever seen a bathroom in an NYC bar? You wouldn't poo, or think about pooing either. So I don't know if it was psychological or if I developed an adaptation to that type of food.

These days though, I don't have a lot of problems from that type of food. Of course I put Chipotle flavored Tabasco sauce on about 60% of the food I'm eating at home these days. So I've probably totally wrecked my insides either way.
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