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| - Sometimes I wish I could give a different star review for "food" versus "dining experience".
For food, I would give this restaurant 4 stars. It was my first time having Ethiopian food, and I quite enjoyed it. Especially the spicy red lentil dish that came on my vegan sample platter. Very nice kick to it! The bread they served it with is very unique too, a little sour but really complimented the food well. The house wine I had was meh, the sambusa (sp?) appetizer was very good, I thought the onion soup my boyfriend ordered didn't really taste like anything, and the roasted banana dessert was delicious (the trifle dessert, not so much). Also, the coffee ceremony was very interesting, I definitely recommend ordering it (more about the experience than the coffee itself). The drinks and desserts were a bit pricey but the sample platters were very good value.
Now with respect to the service/experience, I would give it 1 star. There may have been a bit of a language barrier (my friend asked a question about what salad the main comes with and the waitress had trouble deciphering what she was asking), but our server was cold and of few words. She didn't write anything down when she took our order, which I think turned out to be a big mistake. She forgot all of our drinks, one of the appetizers, brought out 2 of our mains (for a group of 5) when we weren't even done our appetizers and then took a good 20 minutes to bring out the other mains. Good thing the vegan dish was cold so I could wait for everyone else to get their meals (the other main that came out had some hot dishes on it and those had to be eaten alone before everybody else though). We had to ask the server twice for the bill after waiting a very long time for her to come back, and she never apologized for anything or even said thank you. So that took a lot away from our experience and is not making me want to rush out to go back.
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