Merkato Ethiopian Cafe Menu

Breakfast Menu

1. Kinche 3.50
Cracked Wheat with butter and served hot

2. Egg Sandwich 4.00

3. Fuol 5.00
Cooked bread beans, mixed with chopped onion green
pepper, tomato and purified butter and served with French bread.

4. Chechebsa 5.00
Scrambled bread mixed with butter and red pepper

5. Scrambled 4.00
Scrambled eggs, salt green pepper, onions and cardamom garlic.

6. Enqulal Besiga 5.00
Scrambled eggs with beef, salt, green pepper, onions, garlic and ginger.

Appetizers

1. Yemsir Sambusa 1.00
Flakey Vegetarian pastries stuffed with sliced lentils

2. Selata 3.50
Tomato salad with house dressing

3. Soup of the Day 7.00

4. Irgo 2.50
Ethiopian home made yogurt

Vegetarian Menu

5. Yemisir Wot 6.00
Lentils slowly cooked in flavorful berbere (traditional spicy pepper) sauce
with abetted of spices. Low fat, high fiber, and high protein.

6. Shiro Wot 6.50
Seasoned cheak peas in bebere (pepper) sauce.

7. Bozena Shiro 7.50
High seasoned cheak peas and fried beef in berbere (pepper) sauce.

8. Vegetarian Combo 8.50
Great variety of vegetarian dishes.

9. Rice 8.00
Boiled rice in cabbage, carrot and served with salad.

Special Dishes

13. Quanta Firfir 9.00
Dried beef stew cooked in berbere (pepper) and other sauce.

14. Tibs Firfir 8.50
Tender beef tips pan grilled with onion and tomato mixed with "Enjera".

15. YeDoro Wot 8.50
Chicken cooked in butter sauteed onions, seasoned with garlic, fresh ginger,
pepper herbs and simmered until tender, chicken and boiled egg are served
together in this famous Ethiopian dish.

16. Yebeg Wot 8.50
Lamb cooked in garlic, onions, purified butter and "berbere" (pepper).

17. Qekile 7.50
Freshly made lamb stew served with injera.

18. Kitfo 8.00
(Ethiopian version of Steak Tartar) Lean read chopped beef minced,
blended and delicately seasoned in hot spice "mitmita".
Special Kitfo 8.50
House Kitfo 10.00
Merkato Kitfo 9.00
Kitfo Sandwich 8.00
For 1/2 Kitfo 4.50

19. Merkato Derek Tibs
Lamb 8.50, Beef 8.00
Please ask the server.

20. Awaze Tibs
Lamb 8.50, Beef 8.00
Beef sauteed with seasoned butter, fresh tomatoes, awaze, green
pepper and onions.

21. Merkato Zil Zil Tibs 9.50
Strips of tender lamb / beef marinated in awaze sauce, garlic / onions
and seasoned with butter.

22. Gored Gored 9.50
Cubed beef marinated in red wine rosemary sauteed in purified butter
and onions garlic and herbs, served with "awaze" (hot pepper paste).

23. Merkato Shifinfin 9.50
Special of the day

24. Misttru 9.50
Special of the day

25. Dulet 8.00
Combination of tripe, liver, beef, onions and butter.

26. Kurit 12.00
Raw beef served with "awaze" and purified butter.

27. Godin Tibs 10.00
Beef ribs sauteed with seasoned butter fresh tomatoes, green pepper
and onions.

28. Mahberawi 12.00
Ye Beg Wot, Tibs and Veggie

29. Balageru 9.50
Special cubes of beef prepared with onions, garlic, red pepper and
purified butter.

30. Pasta 8.50
Spaghetti served with special Ethiopian sauce.

31. Seasonal Fish 10.00
Fried whole fish served in rice and salad or injera and veggie combo.

32. Fish Goulash 10.00
Special cubes of fish prepared with onions, garlic, red pepper and hot
spiced butter.

33. Tilapia 10.00
Fried finger striped of lean tilapia served with rice and salad.

Special Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony 15.00