Cafe Romanat

Ethiopian Restaurant$$$$

Grand Lake, Oakland

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Cafe Romanat

8.0^/10

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Ranked #7 for African restaurants in Oakland
"Great Shiro and delicious honey wine."(2 Tips)
"A great place to go with vegetarian friends."(2 Tips)
"If you like tej, you will love the mead!"(2 Tips)
"piquant jalapeño-spiked lentils & sautéed collard greens"(3 Tips)

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JKAugust 14, 2021
Try sambusas, triangular pastries stuffed with piquant jalapeño-spiked lentils & sautéed collard greens, lentils in smoky berbere and split peas with turmeric and ginger
Mike WordenAugust 10, 2016
Get the meat and vegetable combo and share. And the homemade tej (honey wine). Excellent! Great space and great service.
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Michael Dematty tattooFebruary 16, 2012
If you like tej, you will love the mead! Something else unique and delicious here: the shouro. Yum!
KathleenApril 6, 2013
The mushroom tibs are delicious. A great place to go with vegetarian friends.
Akshaya SrivatsaFebruary 12, 2023
Good Ethiopian place. Great Shiro and delicious honey wine.
Rich N.November 4, 2013
Easily the best of the dozen+ Ethiopian restaurants I've tried...!
Edward PizziSeptember 2, 2012
Their yemisir wot (a lentil dish) is the best Ethiopian food I've ever had.
Susana WitteJanuary 30, 2016
Check this out! One word:Delicious
Q TipNovember 21, 2013
The service was wonderful and the food even better. I'm a carnivore and had some of the vegetarian options. I was impressed. The honey mead was wonderful!
Mario QuispeMarch 20, 2013
Expectations of this place were far out from what I thought it was going to be. Free injera refill. Dude. Seriously. Do yourself a favor and order veggie and/or meat combo and a bottle of tej.

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