The Ethiopian Restaurant in the Fort

rezin · Post by **rezin** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:55 am

ethiopian cuisine just seems ironic.

Morphine Child · Post by **Morphine Child** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:59 pm

I'm heading over there to try it tonight, so I'll post more this evening or tomorrow.

Morphine Child · Post by **Morphine Child** » Thu May 01, 2008 11:01 am

I hit it up last night, and it was pretty similar to the one I went to in Europe. It was GREAT too.

The food wasn't too spicy (even my girlfriend who hates spicy food said it could be spicier?), but was flavored deliciously. We had a chicken dish and a lamb dish. The chicken dish (which I think is E-2 on the menu) was really good. It had a nice flavor, and is served as a chicken leg with a boiled egg in a green pepper, garlic, and a few other seasonings sauce.

The lamb was different than I was expecting. It had lamb, lots of the spongy bread that I referred to earlier, and turmeric...though I can't remember the other seasonings. I recommend the Chicken dish, and the beef dishes that I saw the other people eating looked good too.

Overall it was a good dining experience. The guy that serves is really nice, I think he runs the place. If you're up for something new, give it a shot. The environment is non-Ethiopian, that would be the only kind of neat thing if they were to change it. But I suppose when I go to Taste of India, it's not overly India in there. But the food is amazing.

sevesd93 · Post by **sevesd93** » Thu May 01, 2008 11:23 am

Good review, but how rough is the porcelain pony ride in the morning?

Morphine Child · Post by **Morphine Child** » Thu May 01, 2008 11:31 am

sevesd93 wrote:Good review, but how rough is the porcelain pony ride in the morning?

haha!

Over the years I've adapted to Indian and Thai food rather well, and this was minor compared to those two. I spent a few weeks living on the East Coast with two Pakistani/Indian families while we were on tour and I ate nothing but Pakistani and Indian food the whole time. Well, I think we had Pizza Hut one night, but every other day it was authentic cuisine. I honestly didn't have any sort of problems those two weeks. I was especially worried when we were eating that stuff then playing shows in NYC. Have you ever seen a bathroom in an NYC bar? You wouldn't poo, or think about pooing either. So I don't know if it was psychological or if I developed an adaptation to that type of food.

These days though, I don't have a lot of problems from that type of food. Of course I put Chipotle flavored Tabasco sauce on about 60% of the food I'm eating at home these days. So I've probably totally wrecked my insides either way.

deek · Post by **deek** » Thu May 01, 2008 12:02 pm

Well, as soon as I get a chance to convince my wife to expand her tastes, we're gonna check it out. I'm predicting this weekend should give me plenty of time:)