Desta Ethiopian Kitchen Menu

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

Shiro, miser, ater, dinech wot, gomen, cabbage, mushroom, salad, azifa, beets, and potato salad and tomato fit fit.

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

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

Sizzling prime short ribs marinated with Desta sauce, onions, tomato, fresh garlic, and jalapeño, with your choice of a side and bread.

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.

Layers of light sponge cake with creamy mascarpone cheese and a hint of limoncello, topped with a lemon glaze.

Rich stew of tender vegetables in a spiced tomato sauce, served with a traditional flatbread for dipping.

Served with kitfo, gored gored, and biret mitad tibs.

Serves 2-4. if brunch were a party this would be served comes with fir fir, kinche, ethiopian-style scrambled eggs, chechebsa, tibs, kitfo, and ayib. served with white bread, pita, or injera.

Small pieces of flatbread braised 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 sauteed 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 $2.50

Cracked wheat cooked tender with ethiopian butter and spices.

Sauteed with onions, tomatoes, pepper and ethiopian butter. served with pita. add a prime ribeye steak for just $6 more.

Tortilla slice filled delicious kitfo, ayib, and jalapeño peppers cooked how you like it.

(beef or salmon) injera or tortilla flour wrap filled with our delicious kitfo. served rare, medium-rare or medium well. add ayib or peppers for $1.75

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

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

This mouth-watering dish contains bits of injera soaked in spiced barbers sauce with your choice of succulent meat or seafood. enjoy it with kinche or ayib on top for $1.50 each | lamb $18.50 | beef $18.50 | chicken $16.00 | fish (tilapia or grouper) $17.00/$19.50 | salmon $18.50 | vegetarian $15.00 | ground beef $16.00 | shrimp $18.50 | mushroom $15.00

Finely minced grouper with tomato and onions. add shiro for $2.50 extra

Finely minced tilapia with tomato and onions. add shiro for $2.50 extra

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

Cooked with your choice of ground beef, cubed steak 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.

Fir fir served with Kitfo, Kinche, and Ayib.

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, onions, tomato, fresh garlic, and jalapeño, with your choice of a side and bread.

Ethiopian-styled steak tartar, freshly minced extra-lean beef seasoned with mitmita and ethiopian spiced butter| 1. how daring are you? “playing it safe – served well-done”, “sorta brave - served medium-well”, “very brave – served medium-rare”, “dare devil - served rare” | 2. add a little something, something: ayib $2.75 • gomen $2.75 • kocho $4.50 • shiro $4.00 | salmon $15.99

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

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

Yellow split peas stewed in a special sauce with onions, tumeric and ginger.

Full beets and potato salad. Choose from gluten-free Teffinjera, injera, pita bread, rice, or white bread.

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 jalapeno 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.

Looking for a lighter option? try one of our yummy sandwiches. made fresh daily

Made fresh daily. Choose from white bread or pita bread.

Made fresh daily. Choose from white bread or pita bread.

Made fresh daily. Choose from white bread or pita bread.

Looking for a lighter option? try one of our yummy sandwiches. made fresh daily

Made fresh daily. Choose from white bread or pita bread.

Looking for a lighter option? try one of our yummy sandwiches. made fresh daily

Looking for a lighter option? try one of our yummy sandwiches. made fresh daily

Looking for a lighter option? try one of our yummy sandwiches. made fresh daily

Made fresh daily. Choose from white bread or pita bread.

Looking to go "green"? try one of our fresh to order salads with our delicious house dressing. served with a side of wheat 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 one of our fresh to order salads with our delicious house dressing. served with a side of wheat bread.

looking to go "green"? try one of our fresh to order salads with our delicious house dressing. served with a side of wheat bread.

looking to go "green"? try one of our fresh-to-order salads with our delicious house dressing. served with a side of wheat bread.

Looking to go "green"? try one of our fresh-to-order salads with our delicious house dressing. served with a side of wheat bread.

Diced tomatoes, onions and jalapeno peppers, mixed with pieces of injera and seafood.

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. Grouper pasta served with your choice of bread.

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. Tilapia pasta served with your choice of bread.

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. Kitfo pasta served with your choice of bread.

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. Lamb pasta served with your choice of bread.

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. Meat sauce pasta served with your choice of bread.

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. Salmon pasta served with your choice of bread.

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. Shrimp pasta served with your choice of bread.

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. Mushroom pasta served with your choice of bread.

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.

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. Beyond meat pasta served with your choice of bread.

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. Veggie pasta served with your choice of bread.

Whole lentil salad

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

Fresh collard greens sautéed with onions, garlic & turmeric.

Lentils stewed in a rich berbere sauce with onions, garlic & ginger.

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

Mixed greens, tomatoes, cucumbers. Accompanied by choice of 2 rolls of injera, teff injera, pita, rice, or white bread.

Ground chickpeas simmered in a rich house sauce & spiced with olive oil or butter

Diced tomatoes, onions and ialapeno pepper mixed with pieces of iniera. Served cold.

Beets and potatoes. Choice of Injera, Teff Injera, pita, rice, or white bread.

sauteed with onions, fresh garlic and fresh ginger.

Layers of light sponge cake with creamy mascarpone cheese and a hint of limoncello, topped with a lemon glaze.

Layers of coffee-soaked ladyfingers and mascarpone cheese, dusted with cocoa powder.

Mango, orange, fruit punch, pineapple, cranberry.

Lemonade

Coke, diet coke, sprite, dr.pepper, orange crush, ginger ale.

Medium roast.

Ethiopian tea.