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Etete Ethiopian Cuisine
(Now Closed)Ethiopian Restaurant and African Restaurant$$$$
U-Street, Washington
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Fletch 🇹🇹September 24, 2013A must have in the DC area. Best in town and highly recommended. Food is delicious! - make sure to come hungry. You don't want your taste buds to miss out. Beautiful and friendly staff at your service
One of my favorite Ethiopian restaurants in DC. Everything is great, but the vegetarian messob (w/ or w/o fish) is definitely the best. Deceptively small - there's seating upstairs + a small rooftop.
Yuval ZukermanApril 2, 2016Tasty food. The entrees (other than the platters) vary wildly in size. The signature chicken and egg consisted of one chicken leg and one hard boiled egg. Waitress was incomprehensible.
Mike the ElderAugust 7, 2015Food is amazing!!! That said, the decor and service are terrible. Just go for a good meal, don't expext more. Try the steak tibs and avoid Harar or any other Ethiopian beer. Solid vegetarian menu.
SandhyaAugust 18, 2015The portions are huge, so definitely split things (or have a lot of leftovers.) Comes out to be fairly cheap, too. Did I mention it's also delicious?
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Anthony MaioranaJanuary 4, 2013Yewaz tibs are good and have good spice. One of those and veggie platter is a solid dinner for two people. Especially if you get the sambusa thingies.
Andrew BemusSeptember 2, 2014I had the ZilZil Tibs. Very good for the price. This place is great if you're looking for something different.- Vincent BoucherFebruary 3, 2014The true unbeatable Ethiopian Cuisine in Washington DC - Thank you for making it a day to remember !
Washingtonian MagazineOctober 21, 2011We recommend: Sambusas; yebeg wat (lamb); doro wat (chicken and hard-boiled egg); kitfo (beef tartare); kik alicha (split peas); gomen (collards); azifa (green lentils).
Travel ChannelDecember 6, 2010The hottest ticket on this city's dining scene is Ethiopian food. Restaurant Etete is jam-packed with locals and Ethiopians, which always says to me it's the real deal. – Samantha Brown Read more
Mike JohanssonFebruary 20, 2014Ask for a sampler platter for the whole table - you can't go wrong. Great food.
Etete's Special Kitfo is the best kitfo I have ever had (and I love kitfo). Wow.
GourmetLiveOctober 19, 2010Chef Tiwaltengus Shenegelgn's doro wat, a berbere-spiced stew that includes a chicken and a hard-boiled egg, takes five or six hours to cook and begins much the same way a French onion soup does.
Get the sambusas, goden tibs, veggie combo and fried fish. They are delicious.
Lega Tibs......cubed pieces of marinated lamb sautéed in onion, jalapeno, spiced butter = yumm-o.
Zeynep DundarNovember 29, 2014I love how they serve the food and everything was tasty. service was ok...
Nikki MurrayNovember 4, 2011Washintonian listed it on the 2011 cheap eats. But it is a little pricier than I was expecting. But very good and very filling.
Susan WhitesideJuly 5, 2010While many of the meats are good, the veggies are excellent. Be sure not to miss the first veggie combo on the list.
- Jared BrewerJune 27, 2011Bring cash. They can't split checks apparently. I just sat for 10 minutes with a pen and paper doing the math to split the check between 5 cards.
Michael HuangJanuary 12, 2010Pick a meat dish, order a veggie combo dish and share! my favorite Ethiopian restaurant in DC.
azewdeDecember 1, 2012Worst Ethiopian food I have had in a long time. Awefuly done Kitfo not cooked to order, tasteless Tibs with hard meat to chew and friend's veggie combo also not very good. Overcrowded, poor cust srvc.
- Danielle RicksSeptember 26, 2010Ask for a Vanilla Absolute Vodka and Ginger Ale. It taste like an adult cream soda!
Les T.February 17, 2013Do yourself a favor and don't eat here. Walk across the street and go to Habesha Market instead. The veggie combo was a joke. The put a tablespoon or two of the veggie dishes and they were tasteless.
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Etete Ethiopian Cuisine specializes in Ethiopian soul food, including authentic delicacies. Our service and food has made us a popular DC destination.
Permanently closed (Show more)
- Mon–Wed
- 11:00 AM–11:00 PM
- Thu–Sun
- 11:00 AM–1:00 AM
(202) 232-7600
Features
Credit Cards
Yes (incl. Discover & Visa)
Outdoor Seating
No
Food & Drink
Drinks
Full Bar
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- 7.5
"Try the Goden Tibs with the greens and spicy lentils. It's such an outstanding meal."
Dion H 
"Try Beef sambusa of fried pastry filled with ground beef and black pepper onions and garlic, Lega sibs tender lamb cooked medium well with onions jalapenos tomato and herbs & Honey wine tej"
JK- 7.6
"Enjoy the special beef tibs and the combination vegetarian platter for the full experience. Great place to go if you're new to Ethiopian food. Friendly, accommodating wait staff."
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- 9.2
"Really cool place for a show. Try to get there early for the upstairs stools. Overall, very fun! Bathrooms were also very clean (at least early on)."
Melissa Goodnight - 8.0
"Everything the Service is Excellent and the Performances are Excellent also"
Tameka Terrell - 8.4
"The south by and the fried chicken sandwich is on point!"
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