Alright, I am biased. Last time I was able to eat Ethiopian food was 4 years ago, so when we found this little cafe in Wellington, I was beside myself with excitement. It hasn't been open long, it has a tiny sign welcoming you in, and has some really nice people running the place, who are super excited to have you in their restaurant. Because we don't have access to a lot of African food in Scotland, and because it's been a long time, both myself and the SR went for the whole hog - he had the meat platter traditional style (i.e. with injera, which you use to eat your meal with, with hands rather than knife and fork and rice) and I went for the vegan platter. Vegan! I think we overwhelmed the two people on shift that day that both had to cook our meal for us. We also had mango juice to drink with our meal. Made with mango, nothing else. No concentrate, just thick meal in itself mango juice. It was awesome. The meals themselves were lovely, although the injera was unexpectedly cold, but the food on top was hot, and cooked fresh. Dishes varied from super spicy meat, to a mild lentil curry and we ate until we were both achingly full. It was one of the highlights of our trip, and can't praise the place high enough. GO. Enjoy. read more

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Didn't even get to try the food. Went there and the weren't even ready to serve. This is a 1/2 hour after they were supposed to be open. I'll revise my review if I ever get a chance to eat there. read more

I am giving one extra star to this place to have courage to open Ethiopian restaurant in Wellington. In my search I hardly found any Ethiopian restaurant in whole Wellington. I love this cuisine as its full of spices and has great aroma . Food at this place was considerably low in spices which I think in general NZ /kiwi has low spice level as compared to Asians like me so to serve that purpose , food is bit adapted to NZ style . When I told the servant I need doro wot with injera n red lentils n yellow peas , he was thrilled to find a person with knowledge of his cuisine , he explained that there are very few ppl here who r aware of what injera n Ethiopian food is . Well all in all food was good , we got access to full menu at 11 pm in night so we were pretty happy with what we got though , big problem was that they served cold injera , I have had Ethiopian food ,at least 50 times in various restaurants in USA n never had cold injera , so I personally prefer warm ones only with little sourness , which elevates the taste of whole bite when taken with spicy vegetable or meat . read more