Addisabebe restaurant invites you and your family, friends, colleagues to come and experience our unique variety of dishes for breakfast lunch and dinner. Addisabeba dishes are prepared with a distinctive variety of unique spices for an unforgettably striking dimension to exotic cookery. We always strive to make our customers to have truly different and exciting dining experience like there no other.
We pride ourselves as being one of the best Ethiopian restaurants in Victoria. For the local Australians our place has become their second home due to our offerings of variety of exotic Ethiopian dishes. For the Local Ethiopians Addis Restaurant is a home away from home.
We provide
• Variety of Ethiopian cuisine
• Live Music by our very own famous singer (Bisat Seyoum)
• Ethiopian coffee ceremony
• BYO & Catering services
APPETIZER
SAMBUSA WITH VEGGIE
Veg pastry, shell filled with whole lentil onin and jalapeno pepper . we serve four pieces $ 8.00
SAMBUSA WITH MEAT
Sambusa meat pastry shell filled with ground peper, beef, onion and jalapeno pepper four pieces $ 8.00
ADDIS SALAD
Addis special salad with tomatoe, onion touch of fresh garlic with our secret style salad dressing $ 6.00
BREAKFAST
FOUL
Crushed fava beans garnished with fresh tomato, garlic served with injera or bread $ 7.00
KINCHE
Crushed wheat cooked to fender, seasoned with Ethiopian butter $ 7.00
SCRABMLED EGG & MEAT
Scrambled egg & meat , tomato, onion, garlic served with injera or bread $ 8.00
FIRFIR
Hot spice lamb stew tossed with injera $ 8.00
BOZENA SHERO
spicy beef with ground and Roslyn yellow split seas and onion cooked in berbere sacue $12.00
COMEN BE SEGA
Spinach with red meat sauted finely diced onion and green pep pens with mixed spices (mild) $12.00
SHERO
Chick peas & splint spicy powder cooked with onion, garlic ( Ethiopian style) $12.00
MISER WET
Red lentil sauced by berbere cooked with onion and garlic ( ethiopian style) $12.00
KIKIL ( only saturday & sunday)
Lamb stew boild with special sauce sauted with onion & garlic ( Ethiopan Soup)
DORO WAT (SPICY)
Chicken stew simmered in berbere ( red pepper) sauce or simmered in ginger sauce, garlic, onion, herbal butter served with boiled egg $15.00
KEY WET(SPICY)
Freshly made lamb stew cooked with herbal butter,onion and grlic $12.00
TIBS
Cubed tender lamb or beef filled with onion, tomato & garlic $12.00
SPECIAL TIBS
Cubed Tender lamb or beef fried marinated with or Addis special sauce, sauteed with onion rosemary, tomato, fresh garlic served with salad $15.00
GORED GORED (Beef Only)
Chunk beef Lightly cooked or sauted with onion & Ethiopian butter.It can be ordered raw, medium or well done $12.00
KWANTA FIRFIR
Diced beef jerky in stew tossed with Injera $12.00
KIFTO
Beef minced seasoned with herba butter and mitmita, cardamom, it can be ordered raw,medium or well done
$12.00
MINCHET ABISH/MILD
finely chopped lean ground beef braised in milled ginger and garlic sauce $12.00
VEGEARIAN COMBINATION
Spicy splint lentil, yellow peas, green cabbage, silver beans, chick peas in spicy sauce $12.00
SPECAIL VEG. COMBINATION
Spicy splint lentil, yellow peas, greens, cabbage, silvr beans, chick peas in spicy sauce and salad $15.00
FOUL (SPECIAL)
Crushed fava beans, garnished with fresh oion, fresh tomato, garlic served with injeral or bread $12.00
Bitsat Aberh
Bitsat was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She attended Felege Yordanos Elementary School (starting at age 4) and Shemeles Habte Secondary School in Addis Ababa. After finishing school, a friend heard Bitsat’s voice and encouraged her to perform. One thing led to another and Bitsat found herself beginning her singing career in azmari bets 20 years ago. An azmari bet is a traditional venue where musicians (azmaris), including singers, instrumentalists and dancers, perform traditional and popular music in Ethiopia. Not long after Bitsat’s talent was ‘discovered’, she began touring the world, performing in the US, Canada, Europe, the Middle East and throughout Africa.
Before long, Bitsat had begun recording her songs, working with all the big names of that musical era. Mulatu Astatke, who visited Australia twice in 2010, and is often referred to as the father of Ethio-jazz, arranged the music for Bitsat’s first cassette recording. Bitsat performed and recorded alongside other big names: Tilahun Gessesse (singer), Gultu Tefera (arranger), Tederos Afro A.K.A. Teddy Afro (composer), Moges Teka (composer), Mulugeta Tesfaye (lyricist) and Yelema Gebreabe (lyricist), among others. Her lyricists were
masters of the Amharic poetic form “wax and gold” – a type of traditional poetry characterised by double meanings. For 20 years, Bitsat ran her own successful night club in Addis Ababa, named BITSAT (“gift for God”), and became famous for her witty and skillful
improvisations of “wax and gold” poetry. In her spare time, Bitsat has always loved reading books and cooking traditional Ethiopian food.
Bitsat now lives in Melbourne with her husband Tesfaye Temarmo and two children. Tesfaye, also born in Addis Ababa, attended Menelik 2nd Elementary and Secondary School. He worked in the National Theatre of Ethiopia for 16 years as a director, actor (for film and stage) and makeup artist.
Together, Bitsat and Tesfaye established a restaurant of Ethiopian cuisine in Footscray where you can taste an array of traditional Ethiopian delicacies, including delicious fasting food of vegetables and lentils (vegetarian/vegan), and a selection of fine meat stews, flavoured with unique spices. Many dishes are served with injera, a traditional pancake-like bread (not sweet; gluten-free available).
Tesfaye Biography
Tesfaye G/Hana is an Ethiopian actor as well as a director and producer. He is a graduate of Addis Abeba University, in Bachlor of Arts. Tesfaye has appeared in Several Ethiopian theatres, films, TV/Radio dramas and commercials. Today his counted amongst the top stars of Ethiopian, comparable to the likes of Fekadu Teklemariam, Getnet Enyew and Mulualem Tadesse.
In 1995 he co-founded the Holy Land Art Acadamy where he taught drama and performance art.While in Addis, Tesfaye has worked as an actor at the National Theater of Ethiopia for over 18 years. He is currently studying at the Victorian college of Arts and also directing a stage play entitled Ye-Egzaber taat (Providence).
Furthermore, Tesfaye is working as an actor in a feature film entitled ‘Lost in Melbourne’. He has written another stage play in collaboration with the CCD programme to be presented to the general public in 2011.
His career is not centred on the stage and screen. He is as well a regular social commentator and radio drama presenter in an Amharic radio programme at SBS Australia.
When Tesfaye is not acting, writing or directing his own stage plays, he can be found listening to a good music and dancing, hanging out with his friends and family members and also working at his mini garden. Tesfaye does not seem to running out of work as his career goes from strength to strength.
WHERE WE ARE
220 Nicholson street
Footscray 3011
M: 0432 149 902
W: addisabeba.com.au
E: dine_addisabeba.com.au
CONTACT US
CONTACT
Ph: (03) 9041 2994
Mob:0432 149 902
