Empress Taytu Ethiopian Restaurant Menu

4 crisp pastry triangles filled with lentils, includes a spicy dipping sauce

Traditional home-made skillet-baked bread served with your choice of  Home made cottage cheese, spiced (Ayib) or Collard greens 

Four lentil Sambusas, Ayib and, ambasha bread, a flavorful treat. Vegetarian

Homemade lentil and onion soup served with ambasha on the side. Gluten Free (without ambasha) and Vegan.

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

Cold salad of beets, potatoes, onions, fresh lemon, olive oil, house special vinaigrette.

Spring mix garden salad with house vinaigrette dressing. With chicken or beef extra.

Fresh red tomatoes mixed with chopped onions, laced with jalapenos and house vinaigrette dressing. Vegan, Gluten Free.

Seasonal hot pepper split and stuffed with jalapeños, tomatoes and onions, hot pepper and spice sauce–peppers with peppers with peppers! Vegan, Gluten Free.

Avocado salad with tomatoes, jalapeños and onions. Vegan, Gluten Free.

Combination of two meat dishes –  dorowat and sega wat – and three vegetables: kik-alicha, misir, and tikil gomen.

Red split lentils cooked in berberé sauce and fine herbs, and blended with chopped onions. Medium.

 Lightly spiced Ethiopian-style cabbage, carrots, and potatoes. Mild

Mixed legumes prepared with ginger root, rue seed, bishop’s weed, and garlic cooked with berberé sauce. Medium-Spicy

Yellow split peas flavored with turmeric, green peppers, and various spices. Mild 

Chopped collard greens and kale cooked with onions, garlic, ginger, lightly laced with jalapeños.Mild.

Chopped tomatoes, jalapeno, lemon, Awaze sauce, olive oil, onion, and  pieces of injera. Mild or Spicy.

Tender beef cubes, stewed with berbere sauce and flavored with onions, garlic, and ginger root. Spicy.

Pieces of injera deliciously drowned in segawat (berberé beef wat) Medium. Please specify if gluten free or vegan, both options are available.

Diqosh ( dried pieces of injera) deliciously soaked with quanta ( dried spiced beef, jerky-alike) in wat.

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

Lean beef cubes sautéed in spiced butter, green peppers, onion, and rosemary. Specify spicy, medium or mild

Cubes of chicken breast sautéed in spiced butter, green peppers, onions and rosemary. Specify spicy, medium, or mild.

Ethiopian favorite, raw or slightly cooked diced lean beef spiced mitmita, cororima, and spiced Ethiopian butter, served with homemade cottage cheese on the side.

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.

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.

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.

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   

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

Vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup or mango juice.

Taytu original: rolls of injera with peanut  butter and sugar inside

Homemade cupcake served warm with ice cream and drizzled with chocolate sauce. Ask about cupcake flavors of the week.

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.