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  • 12101 Greenville Ave #105 , Dallas
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  • Menu
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Our Menu

BreakfastMenuLunch and Dinner

Menu

Scrambled Egg

$10.99
Scrambled egg with tomatoes, onions, and jalapenos served with bread.

Kinche

$9.99
Cracked wheat seasoned with clarified and spiced butter.

Lamb Dulet

$19.99
Carefully cleaned tripe, lean red meat, chopped onion, and jalapenos | Raw, Rare Well-done.

Chechebsa

$9.99
Flat wheat bread cut into pieces mixed with berbere (spicy pepper) and spiced butter.
Firfir photo

Firfir

$11.99
Injera mixed with onions, tomatoes, jalapenos, tossed in Berber (spicy pepper) sauce | Injera, Dabo (Bread)

Enkulal Be Sega

$13.99
Egg with ground beef | Ground beef with egg, tomatoes, onions, and jalalpenos served with bread.

Fetira

$10.99
Artisan cheese, scrambled egg and a little honey wrapped in a flat bread.

Special Full

$12.99
Fule with scrambled egg.

Full

$10.99
Fava beans garnished with fresh tomato, onion, jalapenos.

Breakfast Combo

$22.99
Combination of chechebsa, kinche, scrambled egg, and firfir.

Appetizer / Starter

Sambusa photo

Sambusa

$3.99
Pastry puff with brown lentils and diced peppers.

Desta Roll

$10.99
Ground beef rolled with injera and diced into bitable size | Served rare.

Desta Salad

$7.99
Fresh lettuce and tomatoes mixed with the house dressing.

Tomato Fitfit

$8.99
Shredded injera saoked with spicy sauce, onion, tomatoes, and jalapenos.

Combination Plates

Banatu

$23.99
Combination of firfir, kinche, ayb, topped with kitfo | Rare.

Kintot

$39.99
2 - 3 ppl | Combination of kitfo (rare), gored gored (raw), lega tibs, Derek (dry) tibs.

Meat Combo

$29.99
1 - 2 ppl | Combination of doro wot, non-spicy beef stew, collard greens with meat.
Meat and Veggie Combo photo

Meat and Veggie Combo

$23.99
Combination of veggie plate and meat. Choice of protein (beef, lamb, tilapia, doro (chicken).

Half and Half

$20.99
Combination of two choices of either quanta firfir, kitfo (raw, rare, well-done), tibs.

Vegan / Vegetarian Plates

Alicha Kik

$11.99
Split yellow peas made with onion, garlic, ginger, turmeric, and jalapenos.
Tegabino Shiro photo

Tegabino Shiro

$12.99
Split yellow peas made with onion, garlic, ginger, turmeric, and jalapenos.

Atkilt Alicha

$11.99
Cabbage | Fresh cabbage sauteed with onions, garlic, carrots, and turmeric.

Difin Misir

$11.99
Whole lentil cooked with onion garlic and ginger.

Misir Wot

$11.99
Split red lentils simmered in spicy berbere (spicy pepper) sauce.

Veggie Combo

$17.99
A combination dish of all the vegan plates and collard greens.

Fish Plates

Tilapia Dulet

$19.99
Freshly minced tilapia fish mixed with collard green and ayb (cheese).

Fried Whole Fish

$19.99
Fried tilapia whole fish served with salad | Seasonal.
Misto photo

Misto

$22.99
Fried tilapia on a bed of Shiro, misir, gomen, cabbage.

Fish Goulash

$18.99
Cube cut tilapia marinated in a mix of spicy sauce mixed with onions tomatoes and jalapenos.

Tilapia Sandwich

$11.99
Deep fried tilapia sandwich wth mayo and tomatoes.

Tilapia Tibs

$15.99
Cube cut fried tilapia sauteed with tomatoes, onions, jalapenos.

Weekend Special

Mahberawi

$59.99
3 - 4 ppl | Special combination dish of keywot, Alicia beef wot, kitfo (rare), gomen be siga, lega tibs, choice of two veggies.
Special Kitfo photo

Special Kitfo

$23.99
Ethiopian style steak tartar freshly minced extra-lean beef seasoned with mitmita (hot spiced powder) and Ethiopian spiced butter. Served with kotcho (special Ethiopian traditional bread)

Tuna Kitfo

$18.99
Ethiopian style tuna tartar minced and seasoned wth mitmita and Ethiopian spiced butter.

Tuna Dulet

$19.99
Ethiopian style tuna tartar minced and seasoned wth mitmita and Ethiopian spiced butter mixed with onion and jalapenos.
Goden Tibs photo

Goden Tibs

$24.99
Well-cooked beef ribs marinated with soya souse, onion and jalapeno served in a traditional pan.

Sizzlingl Tibs

$19.99
Chunk of lean beef or lamb dry sauteed with onions, tomatoes, jalapenos served with traditional pan.
Desta Special Tibs photo

Desta Special Tibs

$19.99
Chunk of rib eye beef (chikna) sauteed with onion, tomato, jalapenos, and spiced butter.

Zilzil Tibs

$19.99
Chunk of lean beef or lamb dry sauteed with onions, tomatoes, jalapenos served with traditional pan.

Menu

Kitfo photo

Kitfo

$17.99
Raw, Rare, Well-done | Ethiopian style steak tartar freshly minced extra-lean beef seasoned with mitmita (hot spiced powder) and Ethiopian spiced butter.
Doro Wot photo

Doro Wot

$16.99
Slowly cooked chicken leg and a boiled egg made with traditional onion berbere sauce.

Beef Tibs

$17.99
Spicy, Non-Spicy, Derek (Dry) | Chunk of lean beef sauteed with onion, tomato, and jalapenos.

Lamb Tibs

$18.99
Spicy, Non-Spicy, Derek (Dry) | Chunk of lean lamb sauteed with onion, tomato, and jalapenos.

Chicken Tibs

$17.99
Spicy, Non-Spicy | Chunk of freshly prepared chicken diced up sauteed with onion, tomato, and jalapenos.

Tibs Firfir

$22.99
Shredded injera mixed with spicy berbere (pepper) sauce, topped with beef or lamb tibs.

Kuanta Firfir

$17.99
Shredded injera mixed with spicy berber sauce with dried beef jerkey.

Gored Gored

$18.99
Raw | Cubed raw beef seasoned with spiced butter awaze (spicy paste) onion, and jalapenos.

Bozena Shiro

$14.99
Chickpeas stew made with lamb and seasoned with butter or olive oil.

Gomen Be Siga

$16.99
Collard green with beef | Ethiopian style collards with a mixture of beef and seasoned with mitmita (hot spiced powder)

Spaghetti

$11.99
A well-known long pasta with your choice of sauce topping: Tomato | Meat Sauce $0.99 | Tilapia $3.99 | Chicken $3.99

Beef Dulet

$18.99
Ethiopian style steak tartar freshly minced extra-lean beef seasoned with mitmita (hot spiced powder) and Ethiopian spiced butter mixed with onions, and jalapenos.

Key Wot

$15.99
An Ethiopian style beef stew made with berbere (spicy pepper) mixed with different Ethioian herbs.

Alicha Siga Wot

$15.99
An Ethiopian style non-spicy beef stew made with different Ethiopian herbs.

Lamb dulet

$19.99
Carefully cleaned tripe, lean red meat, chopped onion, and jalapenos.

Kekel

$18.99
An Ethiopian style lamb soup made with mixed different Ethiopian herbs served with shredded injera inside the soup.
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