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Addis Ababa, Ethiopian food in Toronto

Last night I visited a new to me restaurant in Toronto, Addis Ababa serves up Ethiopian food in it's Queen West location (1184 Queen W., just east of Queen and Gladstone). I would definitely recommend this place, the food is good (spicy to mild meat or vegetable curries), atmosphere is pleasant and relaxed and the prices are very reasonable ($44 for generous main course for two and 1/2 a litre of house red). See the review in Eye Weekly for more.

One word of advice if you are trying Ethiopian cuisine for the first time: dine with people whose personal hygiene you trust. The food is served on a large patter with a lining of injera, a pancake like bread, and no cutlery -- everyone at the table tears off a pieces of the injera to scoop up mouthfuls of the various curry like dishes arranged on top.

An alternative Toronto Ethiopian restaurant that I would also recommend is Queen of Sheeba (1051 Bloor Street West, a couple of blocks west of Bloor and Dovercourt). This place is very much a neighbourhood eatery, think plenty of locals, cheap food and plastic tablecloths.

posted by Patrick ASD @ 6:25 PM