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| - Who knew there was a neighbourhood in Toronto called "Little Ethiopia"? Not this girl. Well, if you head over to Danforth/Greenwood you'll come across it - a smattering of Ethiopian restaurants that will give Nazareth, Ethiopia House and M&B Yummy a run for their money. If you didn't also know, at last count there were over 11,000 Ethiopians living in Toronto.
The food is dirt cheap. Like, a ridiculous amount of food that you can scarcely finish between two people for $13. This particular Ethiopian restaurant isn't strictly vegetarian (like M&B Yummy) but they do have a vegetarian platter with about ten items on it (six menu items plus whatever extra stuff they have kicking around in the kitchen that particular night) for $13 with ample servings of injera. Tonight we feasted on shiro wot (chickpea), missir wot (red lentils), cabbage stew, potatoes, collard greens, tomato salad with fresh ginger dressing and four other lentil concoctions.
The decor is pure Club Med, and so is the kickass music that soundtracked our meal. There are straw, hut-like coverings for each hourglass-shaped table, and the lighting is unusual (all of the lightbulbs are red). There's a lot of palm tree art -- apparently there are palm trees in Ethiopia? And the music...oh man. I felt like I was at a Hawaiian lagoon.
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