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Etete Ethiopian Cuisine
1942 9th Street Northwest
Washington, DC 20001
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(202) 232-7600
Hours
- Sunday: 11:00 am - 1:00 am
- Monday: 11:00 am - 1:00 am
- Tuesday: 11:00 am - 1:00 am
- Wednesday: 11:00 am - 1:00 am
- Thursday: 11:00 am - 1:00 am
- Friday: 11:00 am - 1:00 am
- Saturday: 11:00 am - 1:00 am
Cuisine: African Restaurants
4.6 of 5.0 from 30 reviews
price range:$11 to $25
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Etete Ethiopian Cuisine Reviews
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A 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
by Fletch P.
Actually very good food.
by Hamed N.
their vegetarian platter is so good!
by Mimi s.
Etete has all the dishes you’d expect from a traditional Ethiopian restaurant cooking up mom’s family recipes: hearty stews, spicy lentils, and spongy sourdough injera bread to soak it all up
by ThePurplePassport.com
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by InternsROCK!
Best Kitfa I have ever had. Get it raw.
by Alex O.
Get the sambusas, goden tibs, veggie combo and fried fish. They are delicious.
by Daniel A.
Etete's Special Kitfo is the best kitfo I have ever had (and I love kitfo). Wow.
by Neal J.
Lega Tibs......cubed pieces of marinated lamb sautéed in onion, jalapeno, spiced butter = yumm-o.
by Mike R.
Do 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.
by Les T.
Yewaz 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.
by Anthony M.
Worst 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.
by azewde
Delicious food. A like the spices. Very decent pricing.
by Thomas B.
Get the sambusas. Yum!
by Graham H.
The Yemisir Kik Wat (spicy red lentils) are excellent here.
by Nick B.
Veggie combo with fish. Do it.
by Matt R.
Washintonian listed it on the 2011 cheap eats. But it is a little pricier than I was expecting. But very good and very filling.
by Nikki M.
We recommend: Sambusas; yebeg wat (lamb); doro wat (chicken and hard-boiled egg); kitfo (beef tartare); kik alicha (split peas); gomen (collards); azifa (green lentils).
by Washingtonian Magazine
Try the potato dishes they are soooo delicious!
by Gina C.
really tasty injera!
by Emily W.
Bring 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.
by Jared B.
Excellent! The kitfo is delicious, and the veggie combo also highly recommended.
by Robin
The 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
by Travel Channel
Chef 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.
by GourmetLive
Ask for a Vanilla Absolute Vodka and Ginger Ale. It taste like an adult cream soda!
by Danielle R.
Good for groups
by LiJia G.
Best Ethiopian Food
by Joanna C.
While many of the meats are good, the veggies are excellent. Be sure not to miss the first veggie combo on the list.
by Susan W.
Pick a meat dish, order a veggie combo dish and share! my favorite Ethiopian restaurant in DC.
by Michael H.
Quite possibly the best ethiopian food in the world.
by Anthony N.

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