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| - I hadn't had Ethiopian food since I was in elementary school, and my friend's mom gave me some Injira with chicken stew to try. I remember liking the bread, but really disliking the stew. Well, my taste in food has changed since I was 11, so yesterday after having spent the entire day walking and shopping on Queen st., I decided to give Ethiopian food another try.
We walked by Addis Ababa, and the patio looked busy, and everyone seemed to be enjoying their meals, so after a quick check on Yelp, we walked in. We were inmediately greeted by a very friendly waitress and escorted to the patio. We were perusing our menus when the waitress walked up to us and asked us if we needed any help deciding what to get. We ended up getting the veggie platter, and a chicken stew that we were told was very spicy.
Our food arrived on a huge platter, and we were given wet towels to clean our hands, as these were going to be the only utensils used to eat our meal. We dug in, and were very pleasantly surprised. The food is really, really good. The veggie platter consisted of some cabbage and potatoes, split - pea stew, lentil stew, beats,spinach and tomato and lettucce salad. Everything was delicious, and well prepared. The Injira was soft, and was the perfect to sop up the veggies and chicken stew. And talking about the chicken stew, well it was nothing like I remembered. The meat was moist, and falling off the bone, the sauce was spicy, but not overpowering or unbearably so. We ate it all up, and were really full ( the platter is big), but I really wanted somehing sweet, so I got the only dessert they had: fried bananas with vanilla ice cream. YUM! The bananas were caramelized, the ice cream soft, and melty from the heat, and it had some sort of caramel sauce and toasted sesame seeds on top. Delicious!
I really enjoyed my experience at Addis Ababa, and will return. The waitstaff was some of the friendliest and happiest I have ever encountered, our water was topped off regularly, and we were checked on by the owner as well as the other waitresses throughout our meal, who asked us how things were and if we liked everything. LIke other reviews have stated, the service is a bit slow, and they do take a really long time bringing out the bill, but we weren't in a hurry and used this time to chat and enjoy the patio. Not the place to come for a quick meal, but great place to have a leisurely dinner with friends.
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