Place Category: Ethiopian, Outside Dining, and Vegetarian
Family owned and operated Ethiopian restaurant located on Magazine Street in Uptown New Orleans. Cafe Abyssinia features classic Ethiopian dishes such as Kitfo, Tibs Dishes, vegetarian selections and more.
Cafe Abyssinia New Orleans Menu
Menu and prices subject to changeAPPETIZER
Sambusa 5.00
Lentil, meat, spinach, or vegetarian stuffed fried dough.Injera Veggie Roll 7.00
Injera wrap filled with Tilapia fish and vegetables. 9 piecesLAMB DISHES
Lamb Tips 16.00
Tender crusted lamb sauteed in a blend of spices, onion, tomato and jalapenos.Lamb Wot 16.00
Freshly made lamb stew served with injera.Lamb Alicha 16.00
Pieces of lamb bones and meat in a mild sauce.Lamb Kikil 16.00
Lamb bone and meat soup sauteed in a special blend of spices and a touch of garlic.BEEF DISHES
Kifto 13.00
Finely chopped prime beef seasoned with mitmita (spiced chili powder) and Ethiopian spiced butter. Served raw, medium rare or well done.Gored Gored 14.00
Chucked cubes of beef lightly sauteed with awaze and Ethiopian spiced butter. Served raw.Lega Tibs 13.00
Prime beef sauteed with onion, pepper, garlic and tomato.Awaze Tibs 13.00
Chucked cubes lightly sauteed with awaze.Derek Tibs 13.00
Charbroiled beef tender seasoned with spices.Goden Tibs 17.00
Beef prime sherry ribs marinated with onion, tomato, fresh garlic and pepper.POULTRY DISHES
Doro Wot 14.00
National dish, chicken stewed in red pepper sauce and Ethiopian spiced butter.Doro Alicha Wot 14.00
Mildly seasoned chicken stew served in mild sauce.Doro with Spinach 14.00
Cubed boneless chicken sauteed in a special blend of spices cooked with spinach.Doro Tibs 13.00
Cubed boneless chicken sauteed in a special broth of spices.SEAFOOD DISHES
Fish Gulash 14.00
Fresh Tilapia fish cut in cubes, marinated in spices, onion, tomato, pepper and a touch of garlic.Fish Dulet 14.00
Freshly marinated Tilapia fish sauteed in sauces.Fish Salad 11.00
House salad mixed with fresh Tilapia fish cut in cubes.Fish Sandwich 10.00
Fried Tilapia fish served in French bread.SPECIAL DISHES
Special Shiro 11.00
SEasoned milked chickpeas simmered in barbecue sauce.Gomen Be Siga 14.00
Mild beef stew prepared with collard greens.Gomen Tibs 14.00
Collard greens and beef cooked with spices.Spaghetti 11.00
Meat or vegetarian spaghetti.VEGETARIAN DISHES
Veggie Combo 16.00
Shiro Greens, Lentil stew, Yellow split peas and Cabbage.Collard Green Stew 11.00
Collard green cooked with spices.Split Red Lentil Stew 11.00
Pureed split red lentil simmered with berbere (mild blend of dried chillies) sauce.Split Peas Stew 11.00
Split peas stewed in a special sauce, onion, garlic and ginger.Potato & Carrot Stew 11.00
Potato & carrot stew cooked with garlic and ginger.SALAD DISHES
Ethiopian Salad 8.00
Ethiopian style salad dish.Beet Salad 8.00
Beet salad dish.Fish Salad 11.00
Fish salad dish.Chicken Salad 11.00
Chicken salad dish.DESSERT
Cream Cake 6.00
Chocolate Cake 6.00
Baklava 4.50