Cafe Desta Service List

Main Menu

• Soup & Salad

  The soup is served with Ambasha, our own home made bread

  • Shorba

    Vegan soup made from red lentil, carrots, potatoes, onions, tomatoes and orzo

    	$6.00
    Our traditional Shorba kicked up a notch with Lamb	$8.00

  • House Salad

    A combination of romaine Lettuice Large seasonal garden salad with fresh lemon juice, Olive oil, Vinegar, and pepper dressing, served on a bed of rice topped with Azifa and your choice of Fish, Lamb or Chicken and sprinkled with Ayeb

    $9.00

• Entrée

  Sepciality dishes are excluded from all entrée. With all entrée rice can be substituted for Injera

  • Vegan Entrée

    Any one of our Vegan dishes served with Selata and Injera

    $10.00

  • Meat Entrée

    Any one of our meat dishes served with Selata and Injera

    $12.00

• Combinations

  Sepciality dishes are excluded from all combinations. Lunch special is served between 11 am and 2:30 pm

  • Lunch Special

    Any three items from Vegn and Meat dishes, served with Injera or rice

    $9.00

  • Individual Combo

    Any three items from Vegn and Meat dishes, served with Selata and Injera or rice

    $15.00

  • Combo for Two

    Any five items from Vegn and Meat dishes, served with Selata and Injera or rice

    $25.00

  • Vegan Signature Plate

    A sampling of all our Vegan dishes served with Selata and Injera or rice

    $35.00

  • The Works

    A sampling of all our Vegan and Meat dishes served with Selata and Injera or rice

    $45.00

• Speciality Dishes

  All our speciality dishes subject to availability

  • Lamb Tibs

    Cubes of lamb pan seared in Kibe, Awaze onion, jalapenos and fresh rosemary. Served with Selata, Fosolia (Fosolia can be replaced with another vegetable dish of your choice) and Injera or rice

    $18.00

  • Beef Tibs

    Cubes of beef pan seared in Kibe, Awaze onion, jalapenos and fresh rosemary. Served with Selata, Tikil-Gomen (Tikil-Gomen can be replaced with another vegetable dish of your choice) and Injera or rice

    $15.00

• Description of Vegan Dishes

  • Misr

    Red split lentils cooked with onions, Berbere and herbs

    • Spicy

  • Fosolia

    Green beans, carrots and onions simmered in tomato sauce

  • Gomen

    Chopped collard greens cooked with fresh garlic and onions

  • Tikil-Gomen

    Cabbage, carrots and potatoes spiced with turmeric

  • Kik

    Yellow split peas cooked with onion, turmeric and herbs

  • Kosta

    Finely minced spinach simmered with onion garlic and tomato

  • Azifa

    (served chilled) Whole brown lentils, onion, jalapenos, lemon juice and oil

• Description of Meat Dishes

  • Alicha Doro

    Chicken cooked in turmeric, onions, and flavored with various spices

  • Kaye Doro

    Chicken cooked in Berbere, onions and flavored with various spices

    • Spicy

  • Kaye Beg

    Lamb cooked in Berbere, onions and flavored with various spices

    • Spicy

  • Kaye Asa

    Fish cooked in Berbere, onions and flavored with various spices

    • Spicy

  • Ayeb

    Cheese made from a butter milk and whole milk mixture; goes well with spicy meat dishes

• Desserts

  Ask for the dessert of the Day. Most Common

  • Tiramisu

  • Coconut Mango Pie

  • Chocolate Cake

  • Blueberry Tart

• Coffee, Tea, Juice

  Café Desta uses only fair trade coffee beans from Ethiopia

  • Macchiatto

    $1.95

  • Black Eye

    $2.50

  • Americano

    $1.95

  • Latte

    $3.50

  • Ethio Late

    $3.50

  • Mocha

    $3.50

  • House coffee

    $1.95

  • Espresso

    $1.75

  • Mackato

    $2.25

  • Perrier

    $1.50

  • Soda

    $1.25

  • Yekemem Shai Iced

    $2.00

  • Yekemem Shai Hot

    $1.75

  • Mint tea iced

    $2.00

  • Mint tea hot

    $1.50

  • Vanilla steamed milk

    $2.00

  • Hot Chocolate

    $2.50

  • Mango juice

    $2.00

  • Guava juice

    $2.00

  • Juice Fizz

    $2.50