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Starters
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Sambusa
- Four (4) pastries $6
4 crisp pastry triangles filled with lentils, includes a spicy dipping sauce
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Ambasha
- Ayib $7
- Collard greens $6
Traditional home-made skillet-baked bread served with your choice of Home made cottage cheese, spiced (Ayib) or Collard greens
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Appetizer Combo
- $13
Four lentil Sambusas, Ayib and, ambasha bread, a flavorful treat. Vegetarian
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Shorba (soup)
- Cup $5
- Bowl $8
Homemade lentil and onion soup served with ambasha on the side. Gluten Free (without ambasha) and Vegan.
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Foule
- Mild $10
Hearty broad bean dish spiced and garnished with fresh diced tomatoes green peppers and onions. Served with ambasha bread. Choice of olive oil or butter. Mild
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Kai’sir (beets with potatoes)
- One serving $8
Cold salad of beets, potatoes, onions, fresh lemon, olive oil, house special vinaigrette.
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House Salata
- With vinaigrette dressing $8
- With chicken $16
Spring mix garden salad with house vinaigrette dressing. With chicken or beef extra.
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Timatim Salata
- Bowl $10
Fresh red tomatoes mixed with chopped onions, laced with jalapenos and house vinaigrette dressing. Vegan, Gluten Free.
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Yetesenega Karya
- Each $4
Seasonal hot pepper split and stuffed with jalapeños, tomatoes and onions, hot pepper and spice sauce–peppers with peppers with peppers! Vegan, Gluten Free.
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Avocado Salata
- Bowl $10
Avocado salad with tomatoes, jalapeños and onions. Vegan, Gluten Free.
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Combination Entrees
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Vegetable Combination
- Combo $17
Combination of four vegetable dishes: kik (yellow split pea), misir (red lentils), gomen (collards), and tikil gomen,(cabbage). Vegan, Gluten Free
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Meat and Veggie Combo
- Combo $22
Combination of two meat dishes – dorowat and sega wat – and three vegetables: kik-alicha, misir, and tikil gomen.
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Vegan Entrees
Includes injera and one side dish. Choose either misir, kik-alicha, tikil gomen or gomen
Add side salad with house dressing $4.00
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Misir
- Medium $15
Red split lentils cooked in berberé sauce and fine herbs, and blended with chopped onions. Medium.
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Tikil Gomen
- Mild $12
Lightly spiced Ethiopian-style cabbage, carrots, and potatoes. Mild
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Shiro
- Medium $16
Mixed legumes prepared with ginger root, rue seed, bishop’s weed, and garlic cooked with berberé sauce. Medium-Spicy
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Kik-alicha
- Mild $13
Yellow split peas flavored with turmeric, green peppers, and various spices. Mild
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Gomen
- Mild $15
Chopped collard greens and kale cooked with onions, garlic, ginger, lightly laced with jalapeños.Mild.
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Timatim Fit-fit
- Medium hot $12
Chopped tomatoes, jalapeno, lemon, Awaze sauce, olive oil, onion, and pieces of injera. Mild or Spicy.
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Meat Entrees
Includes injera and your choice of either misir, kik-alicha, tikil gomen, or gomen.
Side salad with house dressing available for $4
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Segawat
- Spicy $20
Tender beef cubes, stewed with berbere sauce and flavored with onions, garlic, and ginger root. Spicy.
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Fer-fer
- Medium $15
Pieces of injera deliciously drowned in segawat (berberé beef wat) Medium. Please specify if gluten free or vegan, both options are available.
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Quanta Fer-fer
- Spicy $17
Diqosh ( dried pieces of injera) deliciously soaked with quanta ( dried spiced beef, jerky-alike) in wat.
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Dorowat (chicken) — house special
- Spicy $22
Premier Ethiopian ceremonial dish fancy-cooked homestyle. A piece of chicken drumstick marinated in lemon, sautéed in spiced butter, stewed in berbere sauce with onion, garlic, ginger root, and served with hard boiled egg, and cottage cheese. Spicy
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Sega Tibs
- Specify spicy, med or mild $20
Lean beef cubes sautéed in spiced butter, green peppers, onion, and rosemary. Specify spicy, medium or mild
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Chicken Tibs
- Specify hot or mild $18
Cubes of chicken breast sautéed in spiced butter, green peppers, onions and rosemary. Specify spicy, medium, or mild.
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If You Dare
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Kitfo
- Specify: raw, slightly cooked, hot, med, mild $22
Ethiopian favorite, raw or slightly cooked diced lean beef spiced mitmita, cororima, and spiced Ethiopian butter, served with homemade cottage cheese on the side.
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Gored-gored
- Specify: raw, slightly cooked, hot, med, mild $22
Cubes of raw or slightly cooked lean beef spiced with mitmita, cororema, and spiced Ethiopian butter served with homemade cottage cheese on the side.
Note: Specify: raw (teré)* or slightly cooked (leb-leb)*, and hot or mild
Raw beef may be dangerous to your health.
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Taytu Special Tibs Dinners
Served with yetesegena karya (hot stuffed pepper)
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Sega Tibs Dinner (beef)
- Specify hot or mild. $25
Choice cubes of lean beef sautéed with homemade spiced Ethiopian butter or oil, tomatoes, onions, peppers, rosemary. Served sizzling in a clay charcoal-heated shekla. Served with a stuffed jalapeño on the side–substitutable for kai’sir, or tikil gomen. Please specify spicy, medium or mild.
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Yebeg Tibs Dinner (lamb)
- Specify hot or mild. $30
Choice cubes of lean lamb imported from Australia, sautéed with homemade spiced Ethiopian butter, tomatoes, onions, peppers, and rosemary. Served sizzling in a clay charcoal-heated shekla. Specify spicy, medium, or mild.
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Inguday Tibs Dinner
- Specify hot or mild $18
Mushrooms sautéed with spiced butter, onions, garlic, ginger and berbere, served steaming in clay charcoal grill. Note: choice of butter or olive oil Specify hot or mild
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Tilapia Tibs Dinner
- Specify hot or mild $20
Tilapia sauteéd with spiced butter, onions, fresh tomatoes, garlic, ginger, and berbere; served steaming in clay charcoal gril. Note: choice of butter or olive oil
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Desserts
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Missionary’s Delight
- One serving $5
Vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup or mango juice.
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Peanut-Butter Injera with Organic Honey
- One serving $7
Taytu original: rolls of injera with peanut butter and sugar inside
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Taytu Cake
- Cake and ice cream $6
Homemade cupcake served warm with ice cream and drizzled with chocolate sauce. Ask about cupcake flavors of the week.
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Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony
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Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony
- For 1 or 2 $14
- For each additional person $3
Special after-dinner treat, a traditional, leisurely ceremony starting with the roasting of green coffee Ethiopian beans in the kitchen, the smoking pan of aromatic beans brought to your table. The coffee is served from a jebena (clay pot), poured into small traditional coffe cups, with incense burning on the side. Served with ambasha bread. (Decaf available).
Historical note: coffee originated in the Ethiopian province known as Keffa where it grows wild.
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