Elsa Ethiopian Kitchen Menu
Elsa Ethiopian Kitchen, located in Washington, DC, offers a warm and beautiful atmosphere with a diverse menu of traditional Ethiopian dishes. Customers rave about the flavorful Lega Tibis (beef) and veggie samplers, served with the unique rolled injera bread. The restaurant provides a variety of amenities, including wheelchair accessibility, outdoor seating, and a full bar. Reviews highlight the friendly service and the opportunity to try a buffet-style lunch with options like chicken, beef, and lamb. The spacious and clean dining area coupled with the extensive menu makes Elsa Ethiopian Kitchen a must-visit spot for those looking to explore Ethiopian cuisine in a welcoming setting.
Breakfast
Kin'che Combo
Ethiopian style, cracked wheat with eggs and a beef patty. Served with a biscuit.
Chechebesa
Chechebesa (Ethiopian Torn Flatbread Breakfast!) Torn pieces of flatbread are tossed with spiced butter, dates and berbere.
Breakfast Combo
A combination of kin'che, chechebesa, scrambled eggs and sour cream.
Feta
A combination of torn flatbread, seasoned with our special blend of berbere and tomato sauce with yogurt.
Scrambled Eggs
Three Scrambled eggs/omelet with pita bread. (Make note for omelet)
Fetira/Chapati
Large, crispy wheat flour pita bread wrapped around scrambled eggs, served with honey and fruit.
Foul
Made from cooked fava beans, crushed garlic and cumin served with fresh vegetables.
Sambussa
Fried pastry with a savory filling of lentils or beef, scallion, jalapenos, onions, and celery with amaze sauce on the side.
Veggie Soup
A bowl with a mix of lentils, carrot cellary.
Ayeb With Gomen
Scrambled cheez with collard green.
House Of Salad
Vegg Plus Meat Sampler
Your choice of meat plus, variety veggies your choice. From Elsa vegetarian combination.
Appetizers
House Special
Goden Tibis
Prime short beef ribs. Prime short ribs marinated with special Elsa sauce.
Zilzil Tibis
Well cooked strip of tender beef.
Shekel Tibis - Beef
Ethiopian-style short beef ribs. Well-cooked prime beef with a hot clay pot.
Shekel Tibis - Chicken
Ethiopian-style chicken. Chicken serve with hot clay.
Lega Tibis
Tenderloin beef tibis with onions, garlic, ginger, peppers, jusy tibis.
Geba Weta Tibis
Beef. Cubed tender beef seasoned and diced cooked with onion, and garlic, finished with Ethiopian herbal butter and rosemary.
Awaze Tibis
Spicey. Tender beef cubes stewed in onion, garlic, and ginger and berbere sauce with traditional spices.
Derek Tibis
Ethiopian-style beef jerky sauteed with onion, garlic, ginger, tomato, rosemary, and seasoned with house spices.
Kitfo
Steak tartare. Ethiopian-style steak tartar. Seasoned to a rich flavor with our special blend of spices and spiced butter and mitmita.
Key Wot, An Ethiopian Beef Stew
Spicey. The beef version of Doro Wot. This authentic Ethiopian sega wot has an incredible depth of flavor.
Dinich Bsega Wot
Spicey. Golden potatoes with beef, string beans, garlic, ginger, fresh tomatoes, and spices.
Gomen Besga Wot
Beef with onions, garlic, ginger, and fresh collard greens.
Doro Wot - Spicey Chicken
Chicken simmered in berbere sauce with onions, garlic, ginger, and flavored with spices. Served with hard-boiled egg.
Doro Wot - Milid Chicken
Chicken simmered with onions, garlic, ginger, jalapenos, turmeric, and flavored with spices. Served with hard-boiled egg.
Meat Sampler
Combination of variety meat dishes: Doro Wot, beef tibis, gomen besga, dinch besga.
Alicha Wote
Tender pieces of prime beef or lamb sauteed in butter and simmered in a mild sauce seasoned with spices and fresh herbs.
Ferfer No Meat
Ferfer With Meat
Entree
Fish
Fish Dullet
Groundfish with diced onions, garlic, jalapenos, cardamom, and mitmita.
Fish Goulash
Asa goulash is a deep-fried fish served with injera, a spicy sauce, and veggies of your choice.
The Whole Fish
Comes with bone. Crispy fried and well-seasoned tilapia fish Ethiopian style veggie your choice.
Tomato Salad
Salad
Desserts
Cheesecake
Tres Leches Cake
Carrot Cake
Shiro Wot
Chickpeas seasoned with authentic Ethiopian spices and herbs.
Mesere Wote
Red lentil stew. Split lentils simmered with berbere, onions, and garlic.
Alicha
Yellow split. Yellow split peas seasoned with garlic, ginger, and turmeric.
Collared Green
Gomen. Fresh collard greens made with onions, garlic, and ginger.
Cabbage With Carrot
Cabbage and carrots with onions, garlic, ginger, and turmeric.
Potato With Carrot
Potato and carrot with onion, garlic, ginger, and turmeric.
Elsa Vegetarian Combination Entree Sampler
Combination of varieties of veggie dishes of your choice.
Mushroom With Spinach Tibis
Mushroom with spinach lightly fried tibis.
Soya Tibis
Vegan tibis. Soya tibis are lightly fried with onion, garlic, ginger, and other spices.
