Authentic Ethio African Restaurant is located in Phoenix Arizona. They are a small but full service Ethiopian restaurant and bar.

We were going to try one of the appetizers called sambusa (pastries stuffed with lentils, beef, or chicken)……not ready yet for today so we went for our main digs. We tried the sampler plates….We tried one vegetarian sampler plate. and one meat sampler plate.

We had around 10 choices of vegetable dishes to pick from.

To try anything you have to use the spongy injera bread to pick things up with your hands. In the middle of the plate is a little salad.

We tried-

(top left) Yesuf Fit Fit – butter squash or pumpkin, garlic, ginger, spicy berbere – This one was our mutual favorite on this plate. It was delicious, wild with flavors and and heat. This was the only vegetable side that was served hot. The others seemed like room temperature.

(top right) Keyser – beets, potatoes, garlic ginger …not bad …tasty

(bottom left) Ater Kik – yellow split peas mild turmeric sauce, garlic, ginger – tasty

(bottom right) – Gomen – mustard greens, onion garlic, ginger….WOW…Bright, Strong, Bitter…….Good in small amounts….It breaks all the other flavors up.

You don’t pick the meats for the meat sampler plate.

At the top of the meat sampler plate was the Doro Wat with Hard Egg (Onion Stew and Berbere spiced chicken).

Middle of the plate was house made cottage cheese.

(bottom left) Sega Wot Beef Stew – ginger, garlic, onion, some berbere

(bottom right) Gomen Besga collard greens with beef

My favorite of the bunch was the doro wat…The chicken was tender, developed with LOTS of flavors and it was spicy and delicious. The Sega Wot was good too but I just enjoyed the doro wat much more. The Gomen Besga was for an inquired taste.

I must mention that the hot tea is special and is very delicious here.

I also must mention that you come here when you have a couple spare hours to spend.

They only have one person cooking and one person serving so things take time.

When you go out to any restaurant you will like some things better than other things.

You can park to the side of the restaurant or behind the restaurant.

Worth a Try!

Authentic Ethio African Restaurant

1740 E McDowell Rd PHX AZ

623-404-9907

www.AuthenticEthioAfrican.com

Everything is subject to change.