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Addis Red Sea

544 Tremont St
Boston, MA 02116-6301
(617) 426-8727

www.addisredsea.com

Categories: African/Ethiopian

BEST AFRICAN/ETHIOPIAN

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Serves: Lunch and Dinner

Price Range: Most Entrées Under $25.00

Features & Services:
handicap accessible, smoke free, vegetarian friendly

Multiple Locations: Showing 1 of 2

Founded in 1988 before the surrounding neighborhood became known as the center of the Boston fine-dining scene, Addis Red Sea remains a South End favorite. At Addis, the subterranean dining room feels intimate whether you're on a date or with a group. Guests are seated on low stools around straw tables called mesobs, onto which dinner is served when it arrives. Central to Ethiopian cuisine is injera, a spongy flatbread traditionally made with a tiny grain from the millet family called teff. The injera bread acts as a platter and also as a utensil: It lines the mesob, and stews such as gored gored, beef simmered in an Ethiopian spice mix called berbere, are placed on top of it. Diners use pieces of the injera to scoop up bits of food and feed themselves or one another. Popular dishes on the beef- and lamb-heavy menu include: kitfo, an Ethiopian version of steak tartare seasoned with herbed butter and chili powder; and yebeg wot, a lamb stew seasoned with ginger, cardamom and turmeric. Vegetarians have a broad list of possibilities, from the hummus-like butecha – chickpeas mashed with green and black peppers – to the gomen wot, which is stewed collard greens with green peppers and garlic.

Beer and wine available. Serving lunch Sat–Sun, dinner nightly.

"... while African bottled beers are great fun and the wine selection is cheap and better than you'd expect, you mustn't pass up a glass of Ethiopian honey wine."
– Gayot.com 

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