Yummy Ethiopian Food
Bahir Dar, in lovely historic Hampton, Virginia, has wonderful Ethiopian food. The owners, Demissew and Sinedu Gedamu, are such nice people, and the food is so good.
I usually get #23 (Yebeg Kay Watt, which is lamb in spicy berbere sauce) with side dishes #1 and #7 (Misir Watt and Gomen Watt -- red lentils in berbere sauce and collards). I also had a really delicious beer there last night -- Blue Moon. It's a Belgian White beer.
I've added their website to my links.
posted by rechal @ 7:34 PM
8 Comments:
Wow! You made the very first comment. Do I have to give you a prize?
A la Avis - "We try harder." Amazing stuff, this blog thingy.
Is that "Hampton" like in "Hampton, VA"?
Tom:
Point taken, made the change. Thanks!
Hi there. I stumbled across your blog and saw your post on Bahir Dar. One of my good friends, an Ethiopian, went to school in the city of Bahir Dar. He recently introduced me to Ethiopian food at a restaurant in Indianapolis called Abyssinia...I'm hooked!
Cool! Bahir Dar is a really neat city -- apparently they have all these old churches carved out of stone. I've not been there myself, but would to love to go sometime.
So how did you "stumble" across my blog? Were you clicking on the "Next Blog" button? I did that the other day -- it's amazing to see how many people are out there.
Hey Rachel. Yeah, I was hitting the Next Blog button. It gets addicting sometimes!
I've seen photos of Bahir Dar. It is situated on Lake Tana, which is full of islands with very ancient churches and relics.
When you were at the restaurant, did you eat in the traditional way? It takes us about 3 hours when we go! Wonderful, though. I love the coffee!
I see you're from VA. Deres (my friend) says there are some really good Ethiopian restaurants in DC if you ever travel that way.
Actually, the underground churches carved in rock are at Lalibela in Ethiopia. Every time I go to the Bahir Dar restaurant in Hampton VA, I look at the poster and wonder at the energy and dedication it took to do that. They have one of the traditional low, wicker tables, but I've not seen anyone actually using it. We tried one once in one of the DC Ethiopian restaurants, but leaning over to the low table strained my back - I think I'll stick with conventional (boy, talk about a condescending comment!) tables and chairs like at Bahir Dar. The food is so good that I don't want to be distracted by back pain.
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