Two pieces thin dough shells stuffed with lentils, onion, hot green & herbs. This meatless dish is lightly deep fried in vegetable oil to golden perfection.

Two pieces thin dough shells stuffed with meat, onion, hot green & herbs. This dish is lightly deep fried in vegetable oil to golden perfection.

Crisp green salad topped with green peppers, tomatoes, onions in an authentic house dressing.

Chopped injera mixed with fresh diced tomatoes, onions, garlic, jalapenos, olive oil, lemon juice - served cold.

Finely chopped prime beef from selected lean round steak, seasoned with purified & herbed butter sauce & hot-spiced chili powder - mitmita. Served raw, medium or well done with home-made cheese.

Hot and spicy beef stew. Very lean chopped beef simmered in a hot and thick berbere sauce and purified herbed butter, with exotic spices added.

Mild and spicy beef stew, extra lean chopped beef simmered in mild sauce with spicy butter, onion, garlic, ginger and turmeric.

Chicken cooked to tenderness in a hot & thick red pepper, onions, garlic, ginger & purified butter sauce. Served with a hardboiled egg and house-made cheese.

Lamb with bone cooked with collar green, herbed butter, garlic, ginger, onions and green pepper.

Kaey wot, alitcha, chicken tibs or beef tibs, cottage cheese and salad.

Strips of sun-dried meat sauteed with onion, garlic and special butter soaked in wat served with injera.

Pureed split red lentils are simmered in desta’s own spicy, hot berbere sauce.

Split yellow peas made with onion, garlic, ginger and turmeric.

A delicious vegetable: boiled chopped cabbage, sliced carrots and potato chunks, simmered with onions, garlic, ginger and vegetable oil.

Chopped collard greens simmered in a mild sauce of oil, onion, and herbs.

Roasted and powdered chickpeas shiro are simmered in our unique, hot and spicy berbere sauce with vegetable oil.

Yemisir wot, gomen wot, atkilt, kik alitcha and timatim salata.