Addis Ethiopian Restaurant Menu (Update 2025)
Addis Ethiopian Restaurant, located in Richmond, VA, offers a wide range of Ethiopian dishes with vegan and limited vegetarian options available. With a cozy ambience and friendly service, Addis is known for its flavorful and generous portions. Customers rave about the authenticity of the cuisine, particularly highlighting dishes like Yebeg Awaze Tibs and Ye Doro Wot for their tender and delicious flavors. The injera, a traditional Ethiopian bread, is perfectly sour and spongy, complementing the curried and seasoned veggies. The restaurant ensures a satisfying dining experience, with accommodating staff and the option to dine indoors or outdoors. Prices may be slightly higher, but the quality and quantity of food make it worth the visit. Overall, Addis Ethiopian Restaurant is a must-try for those seeking a taste of genuine Ethiopian cuisine in Richmond.
Appetizers
1 Sambussas Vegan Gluten Free
A pastry shell stuffed with spiced lentils and pan fried crisp. Medium spicy.
2 Katenya Gluten Free
Comprised simply of toasted injera, hand rolled with a spicy bebere sauce and ajib cheese. Diagonally sliced and stacked. Hot spicy.
3 Tomato Fit Fit
A refreshing blend of organic tomatoes, onions, and jalepenos with hand torn injera and a chilled bebere lemon sauce. Medium spicy.
4 Kitfo
Fresh ground lean beef seasoned with mitmita and kibe. For the most authentic experience order rare. Also medium or well done.
5 Kitfo Addis
Traditional style kitfo served with gomen and ayib cheese. For authenticity, order rare. Available medium or well done.
6 Goden Tibs
This dish is comprised of crispy sauteed riblets, seasoned simply with onions, garlic and rosemary, served on a sizzling hot plate.
7 Beef Derek Tibs
Cubed beef sauteed until crisp and golden. Seasoned with our perfectly paired sweet tomatoes, freshly diced onion, and spicy jalepenos.
8 Addis Grilled Tibs
Another cubed lean beef plate, but seasoned with onion, ethiopian kibe, jalapeno and minced rosemary. This one arrives on a sizzling hot plate!
9 Quanta Fir Fir
Dried beef jerky with a spicy stew mixed in with injera.
10 Beef Lega Tibs
Cubed beef sauteed with onions, garlic, rosemary, and jalepeno.
11 Addis Special Tibs
Another in house specialty, this more mild beef stew is slow simmered with pressed garlic, grated ginger root, and turmeric.
12 Keye Sega Wot
An in house, slow cooked, red pepper beef stew flavored with chopped onion, grated ginger, pressed garlic, and authentic Ethiopian bebere.
13 Awaze Tibs
Cubed lean beef seasoned with onion and simmered in Awaze sauce.
14 Alicha Sega Wot
Mild beef stew simmered with garlic, ginger, and tumeric.
15 Bozena Shiro
Served in a boiling cauldron is a crisp cubed beef slow simmered with Shiro Wot.
16 Addis Specialty Meat Plate
Choose any three: Awaze tibs, Keye sega wot, Alicha sega wot, Chicken tibs, Beef tibs.
Beef
Seafood
17 Shrimp Tibs
Plump shrimp sauteed with diced onion, garlic, jalapeno, and our Awaze-Shiro sauce.
18 Yasa Kitfo
Finely chopped tilapia seasoned with Ethiopian mitmita, jalapeno, and onion.
19 Yasa Awaze Tibs
Cubed tilapia simmed in Awaze sauce.
20 Yasa Tibs
A whole pan-fried red snapper served with an Addis salad.
21 Ye Beg Keye Wot
A slow roasted, diced red pepper and tender lamb stew seasoned with chopped onion, grated ginger root, pressed garlic, and our authentic bebere.
22 Ye Beg Alicha Wot
A tender lamb stew simmered in our kitchen for hours with freshly pressed garlic, grated ginger root, and turmeric.
23 Ye Beg Lega Tibs
Cubed lamb sauteed with chopped onions, pressed garlic, fresh rosemary, and sliced jalapeno.
24 Ye Beg Awaze Tibs
Cubed lamb pieces seasoned with chopped onion and simmered in our pleasantly spicy Awaze sauce.
25 Ye Beg Derek Tibs
Cubed lamb sauteed until crisp and golden. Then we season it with onion, sweet red tomatoes, and spicy jalapenos.
Lamb
Poultry
26 Chicken Tibs
All natural plump chicken breast sauteed with fresh onion, pressed garlic, spicy jalapeno, and our pleasantly spicy Awaze sauce, mild or medium spicy.
27 Addis Special Chicken Tibs
Grilled plump all natural chicken breast sauteed with onions, garlic, jalapeno, and Awaze, all served on a sizzling hot plate.
28 Chicken Kitfo
Finely chopped chicken breast cooked with Ethiopian mitmita, diced onions, and sliced jalapeno.
29 Ye Doro Wot
A tender chicken leg simmered in a red pepper sauce with diced onion, pressed garlic, and Ethiopian bebere. Topped with a hard-boiled egg and served in a boiling cauldron.
Any 3 Vegetarian Dishes
31. Tikel gomen (garden fresh cabbage slowly cooked in a mild sauce), 32. Denech alicha wot (idaho potatoes, carrots and zucchini in a very special very secretive, seasoning), 33. Yeabesha gomen (finely chopped collard greens slowly steamed with onion), 34. Misir wot (spiced red lentils cooked in a red pepper bebere sauce), 35. Yekik alicha (mild yellow split peas seasoned with chopped onions and pressed garlic), 36. Fasolia (crisp string beans and crunchy carrots cooked in a mild sauce).
6 Vegetarian Dishes
31. Tikel gomen (garden fresh cabbage slowly cooked in a mild sauce), 32. Denech alicha wot (idaho potatoes, carrots and zucchini in a very special very secretive, seasoning), 33. Yeabesha gomen (finely chopped collard greens slowly steamed with onion), 34. Misir wot (spiced red lentils cooked in a red pepper bebere sauce), 35. Yekik alicha (mild yellow split peas seasoned with chopped onions and pressed garlic), 36. Fasolia (crisp string beans and crunchy carrots cooked in a mild sauce).
37 Addi s Shiro Wot
Onions and pea flour simmered with bebere to create a thick, flavorful sauce. Served boiling in a cauldron.