Ethiopian Famous Restaurant and Coffee on E McDowell is unexpectedly located in a petite corner mall at 41 Street and McDowell. Thankfully there is a large sign out front so I didn't miss it.
This was my third visit to an Ethiopian restaurant. I prefer eating food that looks whole, but for some reason I really get down with the how-many-dollops-of-food-can-we-fit-atop-this-injera-round that Ehiopian cuisine is known for.
(Oh no, I just ended a sentence with a preposition.)
I showed up at the crack of lunchtime to grab some grub on a combination platter. Unfortunately they were out of a lot of ingredients, so I resorted to what the cook could feed me. Ye-misir wot (red lentils), kik alicha (yellow peas), gomen (collard greens), tikle gomen (cabbage and carrot) without the carrot, and a couple of other veggie things - can't remember the names. Flavor and jalapenos were prevalent and tickled my tongue but I couldn't stop eating.
Food was good.
It went in good
and came out even better the next day.
Ahhhh. What more can I say?