327 Barkly Street
Footscray
VIC 3011
Although it's not far from home, we hadn't ever visited Abesha until deciding to try it recently on a Saturday. The colour scheme is certainly true to the country of origin.
Inside the decor is fairly basic, but there are quite a few African touches, and the clientele was mixed.
Behind our table there was a coffee set.
There were a couple of imported Ethiopian beers options on the menu, and we and enjoyed refreshing our memory of both.
The menu (which I couldn't find online so have included below) features a range of Ethiopian dishes, some of which were familiar, some less so.
We shared the vegetable sambusa's as an entree, which was served with a sour cream dip.
The crisp pastry enclosed a satisfying lentil heavy filling.
The Abesha special features a range of dishes served on injera. The kay watt, of chopped lamb in a berber sauce, red onion, garlic and ginger and the alicha wat worked well with the range of veggie and lentil based dishes.
I had the vegetarian combo with a large serve of the rich yemiser wat lentil stew and six other unique other flavours.
The bill including four beers was just over $50. The service was friendly and the atmosphere relaxed, with some groups sharing drinks and others also eating. We certainly left feeling heavy bellied and may well return.
Footscray
VIC 3011
Although it's not far from home, we hadn't ever visited Abesha until deciding to try it recently on a Saturday. The colour scheme is certainly true to the country of origin.
Inside the decor is fairly basic, but there are quite a few African touches, and the clientele was mixed.
Behind our table there was a coffee set.
There were a couple of imported Ethiopian beers options on the menu, and we and enjoyed refreshing our memory of both.
The menu (which I couldn't find online so have included below) features a range of Ethiopian dishes, some of which were familiar, some less so.
We shared the vegetable sambusa's as an entree, which was served with a sour cream dip.
The crisp pastry enclosed a satisfying lentil heavy filling.
The Abesha special features a range of dishes served on injera. The kay watt, of chopped lamb in a berber sauce, red onion, garlic and ginger and the alicha wat worked well with the range of veggie and lentil based dishes.
I had the vegetarian combo with a large serve of the rich yemiser wat lentil stew and six other unique other flavours.
The bill including four beers was just over $50. The service was friendly and the atmosphere relaxed, with some groups sharing drinks and others also eating. We certainly left feeling heavy bellied and may well return.
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Thanks for the review, I want to try the beer and the veggie platter.
ReplyDeletemany australians its almost leaving their comfort zone when first trying african restaurant since they r not used to seeing black own restaurant haha afro australians r newest immigrants indeed lol
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