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| - I had been waiting to try Blue Nile for years upon years. I finally managed to convince some friends to go there with me one cold Monday night in December, after checking online and verifying that in fact Blue Nile is considered the better of the two Ethiopian restaurants in Calgary.
We were the only table in there. Service was friendly and sweet, but unfortunately our server didn't speak wonderful English so we had to clarify everything we ordered a couple of times. As well, at one point, we ordered a bottle of wine and two glasses, and we tried to make it clear that we wanted just the bottle and two empty glasses to drink it from, but she brought us a bottle and two additional full glasses of wine. Eep! Oh well, more wine never hurt anybody, right? The house red is decent, by the way!
The food was pretty expensive for Ethiopian - $23 for a plate for two - but it wasn't bad. It wasn't incredible either, but that's me comparing it to the more plentiful and varied Ethiopian in Vancouver.
If I lived in Calgary I would probably visit Blue Nile again, but it won't be a regular stop for me.
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