Desta Ethiopian Kitchen Menu

Chicken Tibs with side salad and bread of your choice.

A blended dish of tofu and collard greens seasoned with garlic, ginger, hot mustard and a touch of olive oil. Served with your choice of injera or pita bread.

Tortilla slice filled with delicious kitfo, ayib and jalapeno peppers cooked how you like it

Choose Beef or Salmon. Injera or a flour tortilla wrap filled with our delicious kitfo, served rare, medium rare, or medium well.

Diced tomatoes, onions and jalapeno pepper mixed with pieces of injera. Served cold. This is a great dish to share!

A fresh to order side portioned salad topped with your choice of rare or cooked salmon and seasoned with Ethiopian spices

Stuffed with your choice of either minced beef or lentils. These crispy treats are to die for!

Our most popular breakfast dish. Includes kinche, scrambled eggs, and chechebsa for 2 or more because sharing is caring. Served with pita, or injera. Add fir fir for an extra charge.

If brunch were a party, this would be served! Comes with fir fir, kinche, Ethiopian-styled scrambled eggs, chechebsa, tibs, kitfo and ayib. Served with pita or injera. Serves 2 to 4.

Small pieces of flatbread tossed with berbere and your choice of Ethiopian butter or olive oil.

Traditional Ethiopian breakfast consisting of flatbread layered with eggs and served with honey.

Crushed beans sautéed with our spices and garnished with fresh diced onions, tomatoes, and pepper. Finished with olive oil or butter. Served with pita. Loaded - add feta cheese and a boiled egg or scrambled eggs for an extra charge.

Cracked wheat cooked tender with Ethiopian butter and spices.

Sautéed with onions, tomatoes, peppers and Ethiopian butter. Served with pita. Add a prime ribeye steak for extra charge.

Tender chicken sauteed with Ethiopian spices, tossed in our rich tomato-shiro sauce, and served over pasta with fresh salad.

Flaky grouper simmered in a bold tomato-shiro sauce with a touch of spice, perfectly paired with pasta and a side salad.

Delicate tilapia cooked Ethiopian-style in savory tomato-shiro sauce, tossed with pasta and served with salad.

A fusion favorite — seasoned Ethiopian steak tartare-style kitfo (served from raw to medium) folded into pasta with spiced tomato-shiro sauce, balanced with a side salad.

Succulent lamb simmered in aromatic spices and tomato-shiro sauce, tossed with pasta and served with salad.

Classic and hearty — ground beef slow-cooked in a spiced tomato-shiro sauce, ladled over pasta with fresh salad.

Earthy mushrooms sautéed with berbere and tomato-shiro sauce, tossed with pasta for a rich vegetarian option.

Mama Mia! Even though the Italians weren't successful at colonizing Ethiopia centuries ago, they left their love of pasta. Now we're bringing it to you, sautéed with shiro and tomato based sauce, served with a salad. Ribeye pasta served with your choice of bread.

Tender salmon fillet in a flavorful tomato-shiro sauce with Ethiopian spices, served over pasta with salad.

Juicy shrimp simmered in zesty tomato-shiro sauce with a hint of spice, tossed with pasta and served with salad.

Plant-based Beyond meat seasoned with Ethiopian spices and folded into tomato-shiro sauce, creating a hearty vegan pasta served with salad.

Sauteed with onions, fresh garlic and fresh ginger.

Fresh collard greens sautéed with onions, garlic & turmeric.

Looking to go "green"? Try our fresh-to-order salads with our delicious house dressing. Served with beef and your choice of bread

Looking to go "green"? Try our fresh-to-order salads with our delicious house dressing. Served with chicken and your choice of bread

Looking to go "green"? Try our fresh-to-order salads with our delicious house dressing. Served with grouper and your choice of bread

Looking to go "green"? Try our fresh-to-order salads with our delicious house dressing. Served with tilapia and your choice of bread

Looking to go "green"? Try our fresh-to-order salads with our delicious house dressing. Served with your choice of bread

Looking to go "green"? Try our fresh-to-order salads with our delicious house dressing. Served with lamb and your choice of bread

Looking to go "green"? Try our fresh-to-order salads with our delicious house dressing. Served with salmon and your choice of bread

Looking to go "green"? Try our fresh-to-order salads with our delicious house dressing. Served with shrimp and your choice of bread

Made fresh daily. Choose from white bread or pita.

Made fresh daily. Choose from white bread or pita.

Made fresh daily. Choose from white bread or pita.

Made fresh daily. Choose from white bread or pita.

Made fresh daily. Choose from white bread or pita.

Made fresh daily. Choose from white bread or pita.

Made fresh daily. Choose from white bread or pita.

Made fresh daily. Choose from white bread or pita.

Made fresh daily. Choose from white bread or pita.

Made fresh daily. Choose from white bread or pita.

Sautéed cuts of meat at extra high heat, served well done with your choice of a side and bread. Choose from Lamb, Ribeye, or Filet Mignon.

Sizzling prime short ribs marinated with Desta sauce, onion, tomato, fresh garlic and jalapeno.

Ethiopian-style steak tartare, freshly minced extra-lean beef, seasoned with mitmita and Ethiopian spiced butter. Can sub salmon. How Daring are You? “Playing it Safe – served well-done”, “Sorta Brave* - served medium-well”, “Very Brave *– Served medium-rare”, “Dare Devil* - served rare” Make it a kitfo dulet with sautéed onions and peppers for an additional charge.

Get your taste buds ready for our most popular dish! Tender cubed meat of your choice sauteed in Desta's secret blend of spices, onions, tomatoes, peppers, and spiced olive oil. It doesn't get any yummier than this. 1. Pick Your Meat (9 oz.) | 2. Choose Your Starch | 3. Pick Your Side

Chickpea stew with your choice of ground beef, cubed meat or lamb, with butter or olive oil

This mouth-watering dish contains bits of injera soaked in spiced berbere sauce with your choice of succulent meat or seafood. Enjoy it with Kinche or Ayib on top for an extra charge

Finely minced grouper with tomato, onions & peppers. Add Shiro for an additional charge.

Finely minced tilapia with tomato, onions & peppers. Add Shiro for an extra charge.

Lean beef cubes mixed with mitmita, awaze, onions and peppers. Rare, medium rare or well done.

Cooked with your choice of ground beef, cubed meat or lamb, with butter or olive oil

Rare or cooked salmon cubes mixed mitmita, awaze, onions, and peppers.

Chickpeas stewed in a special sauce with onions, garlic and ginger. Served with choice of olive oil or Ethiopian butter.

Served with kitfo, gored gored and biret mitad tibs.

Firfir served with kitfo, kinche and ayib.

Potatoes simmered with berbere, onions, garlic and other spices.

(Yellow Split Pea Stew) Yellow split peas stewed in a special sauce with onions, turmeric and ginger.

Fresh collard greens sautéed with onions, garlic & turmeric

(SPICY SPLIT RED LENTIL STEW) Lentils stewed in a rich berbere sauce with onions, garlic, and ginger.

Sauteed with onions, fresh garlic and fresh ginger.

(CHICKPEA STEW) Ground chickpeas simmered in a rich house sauce & spiced with olive oil or butter

Diced tomatoes, onions, and jalapeño peppers, mixed with pieces of injera. Served cold.

Fresh cabbage sauteed with onions, garlic, ginger, carrots, and turmeric.

Shiro, Miser, Ater, Dinech Wot, Gomen, Cabbage, Mushroom, Salad, Azifa, Beets, and Potato Salad and Tomato Fit Fit.