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| - My friend invited me for dinner this past week, as she wanted to try Ethiopiques which she passes quite often. Although she is Eritrean herself, she does not care to go out for Ethiopian food very often, and then only to her few preferred places. I, however, like to go out for Ethiopian food, and have tried many different places on the Danforth and downtown. So this would be a rare outing for us... but unfortunately it fell very short of expectations, mainly due to the very poor service.
The restaurant itself was pretty standard for the places that I have visited, not too bright inside, a few decorations on the walls, and seemed quite clean. It was not busy, so the service started okay, and the food came fairly quickly. After that though, the server kept missing everything, possibly because he would visit several tables without ever writing anything down. My friend ordered a spiced tea, and got iced tea instead, then waited about 10mins to get the actual spiced tea, which she said was just the spices and water with no tea at all. We requested both salt and more injera twice each, but never got either. The people at the table beside us seemed to be having similar problems, towards the end stating quite loudly that this was the worst service.
As for food, we ordered the vegetarian platter, with a side order of lamb tibs. I usually have the platter as it includes a little of all the vegetables: lentils, chick peas, yellow split peas, collard greens, and cabbage and potatoes. The food was okay, but nothing special, and certainly not the large quantity that I saw in their website photos; my friend also insists that the 'collard greens' were definitely not, and probably actually chopped kale. The lamb was pretty good, but again no better than I have had elsewhere.
Overall, I thought that the food was a 3-star rating. The bill came to about $40 for two, and I would definitely say that I have had better for less. Coupled with the very poor service, I cannot see myself going back again. There are certainly better options available along the Danforth.
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