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I had a reservation at Tana for 8:30 pm and my husband and I arrived right on time. After checking in, the hostess left us standing at the door for at least 15-20 minutes.
We were finally seated and looked over the menus when the hostess (who was also our server and the bartender) came back and informed us that the kitchen was "running out of food" so we should let her know what items we were interested in and she'd see if there was any left. We gave her our order and she came back a while later and said that they were only out of 1 of the 5 items we wanted, which was fine so we replaced it with something else.
As our server was about to run off again I asked if we could please order some drinks (we hadn't even been brought water). She said "yes, of course, but we're out of cups."
Around 9:15 pm our server came by and said our food would be out shortly. A few minutes after that she came back again and said that they were out of injera, and is that alright with us? We said no! The whole point of eating Ethiopian food is that it's served family style on injera, this huge piece of flat bread that you tear off and scoop the food up with, using only your hands and no utensils. Without injera you'd just have some piles of food. Our server was very apologetic and said she'd have the manager come over and talk to us and work something out.
We waited for the manager about 10 minutes and never saw him. During this time we called Abay, another Ethiopian restaurant right around the corner, and made a reservation there. By the time the manager at Tana got to our table we were probably already enjoying our entrees at Abay!
Abay was also busy that night but they obviously know how to run a restaurant - great food, great prices, and they even had cups!
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