Came here a few weeks ago with my husband and our daughters on a Saturday night. We were on our way to Addis Ababa but noticed this new place and decided to try it. The first thing I noticed was the decor - kind of Euro-cafe vibe, and the atmosphere - feels lively and fun. The place is small and our youngest (6 months old) was in her stroller which was a little tight in the place but they were very accommodating. We were seated quickly ordered a vegetarian platter for my husband and myself and a cheese omelet for my 4 year old. The food was all very good, tasted fresh and portions were good. i especially like the spicy lentils. I look forward to going back and trying more things. read more

I had the worst experience at this place. I used to go often when they first opened and was fascinated by their customer service as the owner walked around and asked how you are doing. I came back a year later and found the portion of the meals shrank and the price skyrocketed more than any other Ethiopian restaurant. I went with 3 other friends of mine and were excited to have kitfo and tibs as I had bragged to be the best in town. The waitress had the biggest attitude from the start and we weren't even greeted for about 20 minutes after we arrived. She took our order and we got our food about 45 minutes later. Meanwhile we had ordered water that seemed to have something disgusting in it and we all noticed it after we had our first sip. All of us freaking out by what we just drank we told the server but she had an i don't care attitude and offered to give us clean water. We demanded to see the manager but she refused to go get her saying she can handle it. I was pretty pissed because of the fCt that I had brought my guests to a place I had raved about and was being treated horribly and my background as a bartender made it so hard for me to keep my cool. I personally got up and approached the manager who made me wait and not bothered by what's going on. Imagine our reaction while trying to figure out what we just drank. The manager then said I will be right with u and continued making coffee to customers which I thought was absurd as she can see our frustration and didn't care to assign her employees to finish making the coffee for her. She came by and asked what's going on still with I don't care look, typically managers are supposed to do everything possible to calm customers in these situations instead she took out a piece of it and said "oh this must be lemon, sometimes we leave it overnight so some pieces maybe left behind" we wondered how many days that lemon if it really is lemon has been in there because it was slimy and gray.. She took the waters away with no apology and replaced it with bottles with bottled water.. We got our food and it was half the stuff we ordered, I was very confused because the place wasn't even full. We got the check at the end with everything on it. In a typical setting managers would apologize and send the customer happy with better service and usually pay nothing to partial check but this was far from what happened.. It was the worst experience with a health hazard and they didn't care.. Seems to me like they have attracted enough customers with their previous good reputation and do not care about anything else! read more

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Tried some cakes and drinks. Desserts tasted like bleach. The wines are shitty ones in airplane bottles Don't recommend.

Please train your staff. It was embarrassing when I brought my friend to your establishment and we waited for drinks for 10 minutes. The waitress finally took our lunch order and came back twice to ask us what we ordered. If you don't train your staff properly, you will lose your customers and go out of business. Just saying!!!! The meat quality is no longer good. Very chewy!!! I am going to give your restaurant one more try. I hope not to be disappointed. read more

First of all price is going up while service and hospitality sucks. Secondly, food takes forever to come out. Cant tell who is the cook, server, or the bartender. The all stuff need extensive training including the owner. Owner or manager need to know when is the rush our so they can put more stuff. Servers are always females with smile when they want and sometimes with attitude. read more

There are dozens of other Ethiopian restaurants within walking distance from here - any of which would easily be a better experience for you. Food? Overpriced and not nearly as appetizing as the price would suggest. Ordered a ~$10 plate with water and, really, I could've done better heading over to the Chik-Fil-A or Nandos a few blocks over. I didn't order any special drink since the price for the plate alone was absurd and just asked for water. They gave me tap water. Tap water. Any other place would have given purified water. Lesaac's? Tap. If that wasn't fun enough, it got even better when it finally came to pay for the "food" they served. I gave them a $10 and waited for my change. I waited for a couple minutes after paying, saying nothing since I assumed they could handle at least that. Eventually, one of the women asked me to leave. Finally getting the message that this place isn't welcoming, I left changeless and with regret for not hitting up Burger Fi or even the fried nut salesman near the ice rink. In short, you can do better than this place. The food is terrible and overpriced. Customer service, to me at least, was practically nonexistent. Silver Spring is a large city with many other small restaurants more deserving of your money than this place. read more

Horrible Service. It's really a shame because the food is good but the service is pretty close to non existent. We hhad hunt someone down to order, to get drinks, to pay our bill, etc.Our waitress did not check on us the entire time, in fact we did not see her again until we had to go to the counter to pay for our food ourselves, and we noticed her sitting at a table having a drink with another waitress. I couldn't believe that this was real. Very unfortunate since the food was tasty. Other waitresses seemed to be serving their patrons, but someone we were completely forgotten. read more

Wow. What a great surprise. This is the best Ethiopian food I have ever tasted. The restaurant interior is warm and inviting as are the staff. I came for lunch, starved after a long bike ride and wasn't disappointed. I had the Engurguro which was amazing. The beef was cooked perfectly through - a bit of char for a great crunch but succulent on the inside. The prices are a bit high - especially for lunch - but if I had split it with someone else it would have been reasonable. A majority Ethiopian clientele which is a great sign that the food is good and supported by the local community. I'll be back - for the Engurguro and to watch the World Cup at the bar! read more

The food was delicious. I shared the vegetarian platter with my friend from Ethiopia. We also had the beef - zilzil tibis. It was delicious! The flavors were great. The servers were friendly and helpful. I will definitely go back. read more

Originally stopped in for a cup of tea but the food looked so good that we decided to try dinner after finished errands. Atmosphere and food were great- authentic and fresh. Service was good. Rather than have a single waitress, a number of serving staff came by for orders and with drinks and meals. Sharing is easy here. People are friendly. Parents with baby at more than 1 table to make the atmosphere even more relaxed. Can't wait til weather warms to sit out at cafe tables. Recommended. read more

We had an overall good experience at Lesaac and will definitely return for the vegetarian platter. The tibs came out too tough, with some pieces I couldn't chew through enough to swallow. I would have wanted to order the chicken dish but they ran out of sauce for it. Perhaps I'll get to try it next time. read more

The food and the service is good but the price is high compared to other restaurants in the area without any additional quality.

I have been going to this restaurant since they open. Just fantastic location, food and excellent service. The food is always consistent. . My kidss love it. The best part of it is the service, the servers and owner remember you and make you feel you are the only customer. The food is very authentic. If you happen to be in Silver Sprig area, check it out. read more

I wanted so badly to love this place. From the beginning I loved the concept. A small catch-all Ethiopian Cafe/Bar/Restaurant in a great location with outdoor seating. I have been there a few times now and have been more disapointed with each visit. While the food is good the customer service and the cleanlyness (and the spoiled milk/beer smell) leaves something to be desired. read more

Lesaac is one of the best Ethiopian restaurant I have ever been so far. The food was tasty and the service was excellent. I strongly recommend this Ethiopian resturant to everyone. read more

This place amazing Ethiopian food the best in the DMV I suggest that every new person who wants to taste gokd ethiopian food go here

I've always enjoyed Ethiopian food but I didn't LOVE it until I found Lesaac Cafe! I've had the Vegetarian Platter at many if not all of the other Ethiopian restaurants in the Silver Spring/Wheaton area as well as several in DC. This was by far the best! The range of flavors was spectacular and the quality of the ingredients was clearly superior. I am going back very soon! read more

The food is some of the best Ethiopian we've eaten in over 30 years. The grilled beef and lamb portions were huge. Used our Amazon voucher with no problem and had a pleasant friendly waitress. Will ask for Teff enjera the next time, but no complaints about any part of the meal. read more

I LOVE this place. By now the waitresses know me, maybe because they don't often have a tall Nordic-looking woman coming in asking them to substitute something else for "that spicy stuff" in the veggie combo and to leave the jalapeños out of the salad! They are super friendly and accommodating, and the food is unbelievably delicious. read more

Need to sit down and have a coffee, espresso, latte, cappuccino? Skip Starbucks and come here. I've only been here for coffee breaks, but they've all been 5-star experiences. read more

I've been going to Lesaac (after class at nearby Montgomery College) for cake & coffee for several months. Finally decided to try some real food. I had lamb tibs, which was very good, and they accommodated me with a side of some vegetables. The portions were generous and I had a lot to take home. A small salad was included with the entrée. It (lamb) could have used more spice; I have encountered this at other restaurants, especially Chinese, where they see a gringo and assume he can't handle the spice, but I don't know if that was the case here. Otherwise, everything was just fine. From this and past visits, this place seems very popular with Ethiopian locals, a good sign to me. My casual observations from walking around this area, where Ethiopian restaurants abound, is that most other restaurants do not have nearly as much business, at least at that particular time of day. Ambience is casual, and the service has been very good. read more

This place has decent food, but you should set aside 1.5 - 2 hours for lunch here because service is very slow. I have been 3 times. I'm Ethiopian, but no one knows it. I can tell you that because of that I always get 2nd class service in these places. The first two times I ordered doro wat and they didn't even have it, even though it's on the menu. After 10 minutes each time someone would come back to tell me they didnt have the dish. The third time I went and took 2 friends for coffee and desserts. We sat at a table and waited for about 15 minutes before anyone would help us, only to be told that we could not sit at a table and order coffee. Then the owner told us that we could when I complained to him, so we just left and spent our dollars elsewhere. I am not going back. To top it all off, the waitress gave us a dirty look when the owner told us we could order desserts from a table. He should have really told her and not put us in the middle of it. It became so awkward with all of the customers sitting there looking that we just walked out. I will never return. read more

well, I say I visite more than Ethiopian restaurant and this place is not the best.I mean the good thing that happened is their​ good food but the owner served me and I don't like how the owner treats the stuff.I honestly don't recommend people to go there.I support people who have respect for their employees.Thats all. read more

Lesaac offers some of the tastiest Ethiopian food that I have had in a while. Even the salad was absolutely delicious. The venue came highly recommended from my cab driver as I was craving really good authentic Ethiopian food. I placed a Take Out order with Betty who was very friendly over the phone and in person. I received the veggie platter in 15 short minutes after ordering. The injera was wonderfully fresh and every vegetable from the beets to the tofu was well seasoned and tasty. The venue gets three stars because most of the vegetables were stone cold so I had to heat everything up in the microwave at home. This was not an easy task with the method in which the ordered was packaged. For take out orders it would be helpful if the injera and the food items were packaged seperately in small individual containers. I would have preferred to present each food item on the injera at home myself. Also please consider soaking the lentils and all beans overnight and simmer not boil to help customers reduce intestinal gas/bloating. It was so good I would have bought another meal the next day but I could not tolerate another day and night of bloating. Otherwise I really like this cafe and sincerely appreciate the gluten-free options. :-) read more

Food was delicious and on par with what I've experienced at other Ethiopian places in Silver Spring. The decor was fun and our waters stayed filled throughout. I had two main issues with this place: #1 My husband was refused a beer because he had a "vertical ID," that is, his Arizona driver's license and his military ID are both "vertical" rather than horizontal and therefore refused by the waitress and the manager as valid ID. We were shocked and pretty perturbed to find that neither state nor federal ID is apparently acceptable unless it is landscape layout. #2 Before going to this establishment, we purchased a Livingsocial voucher for $50 worth of food. The manager came to us when it was time to pay stating that they could not find the voucher in the system and couldn't accept it. I've been other restaurants using Groupons or Livingsocial deals where they simply record the voucher number without issue. Because the deal was bought the same day it was redeemed, it probably needed some time to update. This management did not give us any flexibility, lee-way or, in my opinion, utilize common sense. We will not be returning. read more

I would give this place less than one star if I could. The food is decent but the customer service is the worst I've ever seen in a restaurant. Never mind the number of I times we had to ask for the bill or water, what was truly mind blowing was the fact that our waitress screwed up our order for kitfo. The restaurant has two types of kitfo-special and regular kitfo. We ordered regular kitfo, she brought us special kitfo. It was something no one at the table could eat. When the bill came, our waitress refused to take it off our bill even though it was clear that no one had eaten it and that the mistake was a problem from the start. Her reasoning, if she took it off the bill, the owners would make her pay for it. According to her, if we wanted the regular kitfo, we should have asked for the regular kitfo. We did ask for the regular kitfo but she still made us pay $20 for something no one at the table ate and everyone was very clearly aware was not ordered. read more

I went to this restaurant today with my friend. When we first enter the restaurant none of the waitresses saw us. After we sat for about three minutes one of the girl came. We ordered balageru tibs. After over 20 minutes she brought us a food called ' habtamina diha'. I called her and told that it was a wrong order. Then she tried to tell me I ordered the food she brought, but she apologized and took the food back. Another waitress also came and apologized but it was not genuine. Then, she brought us the right order after 10 minutes or so. However; there was a long hair lying on the food. I called her again and I showed the hair. I did not even gave her the chance to apologise or explain because it is not something you explain. We left the restaurant hungry. I will never go back to that place. Waitresses should always cover their hair or put ponytail on. As a matter of fact my freind told me that she went to the place a couple month ago and they served her a spoiled food. She left without eating because she was so shy to tell them that the food is spoiled. I will never go back to that place.......ewwww read more