Cafe Addis

• Cuisine(s): Ethiopian
  Hours: Daily 8am-12am
  Price: $$
• Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards
  Features: Takeout, Vegetarian Friendly, Wheelchair Accessible
  Serving: Dinner, Lunch
• Alcohol: Full bar
  Reservations: Accepted, Not Necessary
  Parking: Street

Description

Addis means flower, but it also connotes the capital of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa. This sleek Harlem café offers the standard Ethiopian menu, presented in the standard ways. (Why can't Ethiopian menus be more adventuresome?) That said, the national dish of doro watt is particularly good here, presenting chicken and a boiled egg (mother-and-child reunion?) in a thick-as-a-brick red broth, savory and finger-staining. The connection with African-American cuisine lies in the collard greens, an agreeable part of a vegetarian menu that mainly features lentils in a half-dozen lovely shades of yellow and brown. In addition to being a restaurant, the place also functions as a coffee house and clubhouse for Ethiopian ex-pats.