The traditional furnishing
Coffee Ceremony
Food served on Injera
A few days ago we had a really cool dinner experience at Addis in Cape, an Ethiopian restaurant in Cape Town on Long Street. The food is served on a Mesob, a woven basket. All food is served on top of Injera, a sour dough pancake. You eat with your hands where Injera is used as an utensil to scoop up sauces & meat. Everybody shares the food from a common plate. Injera is very popular in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia. A very important element of Ethiopian cooking is called berbere. It is a red paste made up of a multitude of spices and herbs. The dinner ends with a coffee ceremony. If you are in Cape Town you have to stop by and have dinner there. If you missed the chanse in Cape Town you could always stop by at Addis in Daar in Daar es Salaam,Tanzania!
We have an Ethiopian restaurant close to where we live. I like the Injera and enjoy eating with my bare hands, but I probably won’t ever go back after a harrowing incident with the restaurant’s home-brewed beer. This place looks nice though. How’s the coffee?
Please tell about the the home-brew incident. We tried some home-brew honey wine. It was served in a wine glass (of course we didn’t get to see the jug it is stored in) cost three times as much as the regular bottled beers, and after a quick taste was left untouched the whole evening.