Update 4 months later: since dining in several months ago I now order the beef siga through DoorDash when I crave Ethiopian. I’m still VERY HAPPY with the food! Eat in or have it delivered; it’s delicious! The Red Sea Cafe is an excellent Ethiopian restaurant in a fantastic ice cream shop, the South Street Creamery! The three of us started with the tomato dip with injera chips and shared the injera plate with eggplant, beef siga, and chicken (this comes with greens and cabbage). If you haven’t had Ethiopian, injera is a soft bread served with stewed foods on top. You eat the different stews using the injera as a base to grab the stew with you hands. We always seem to want a second serving of injera when we eat Ethiopian so we eat every part of the meal to the last drop when the food is good. RED SEA WAS DELICIOUS! All three of us have lived in the DC area, which has a large Ethiopian community and several Ethiopian restaurants; we’ve been to many Ethiopian restaurants and Red Sea is very, very good! Two differences: not oily and not too salty! The food is very healthy and reasonably priced!
Red Sea Café
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Update 4 months later: since dining in several months ago I now order the beef siga through DoorDash when I crave Ethiopian. I’m still VERY HAPPY with the food! Eat in or have it delivered; it’s delicious! The Red Sea Cafe is an excellent Ethiopian restaurant in a fantastic ice cream shop, the South Street Creamery! The three of us started with the tomato dip with injera chips and shared the injera plate with eggplant, beef siga, and chicken (this comes with greens and cabbage). If you haven’t had Ethiopian, injera is a soft bread served with stewed foods on top. You eat the different stews using the injera as a base to grab the stew with you hands. We always seem to want a second serving of injera when we eat Ethiopian so we eat every part of the meal to the last drop when the food is good. RED SEA WAS DELICIOUS! All three of us have lived in the DC area, which has a large Ethiopian community and several Ethiopian restaurants; we’ve been to many Ethiopian restaurants and Red Sea is very, very good! Two differences: not oily and not too salty! The food is very healthy and reasonably priced!
This place is awesome! The food is absolutely delicious and everything is so flavorful and fresh. The service is super friendly and attentive. The owner/chef is very engaged and hyper focused on food quality and overall experience. We will be regulars!
This place is awesome! The food is absolutely delicious and everything is so flavorful and fresh. The service is super friendly and attentive. The owner/chef is very engaged and hyper focused on food quality and overall experience. We will be regulars!
I went to Red Sea Café today to try something new. The food was delicious. The owner cooked and brought us the food herself and was happy to share about the traditional Eritrea/Ethiopian cuisine. The chicken and beef dish we shared was served with injera which is a nice fermented (gluten free) bread. Everything was delicious and we would definitely go again to try other dishes. The flavor was something I have not had before!