Lalibela
Hours
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Neighborhood
- Downtown
$$ - average
Ethiopian/Eritrean
Southern New England's only Ethiopian Restaurant
Lalibela serves up standard Ethiopian fare. Vegan options include yemisir wat, ater kik, shuro, and tikel gomen. A vegetarian sampler is $15 ($11 for each additional person). During the week, at lunch time you cannot order off the menu; instead they offer a buffet for $7.99/person. The buffet includes 2 vegan salads and 7 vegan dishes.
Added by Gregory on Nov 18 07 (updated Jan 23 08)
Reviews
I appreciated the fact that their sandwich board placed outside the restaurant says "Lunch Buffet: Vegetarian and more" and that out of the 11 dishes available for lunch 9 of them were vegan. The food here was not as good as Ethiopian food in the Twin Cities area, but not as bad as some Ethiopian food I had in other places. It was too bland and oily to be great. But it was edible.
Lalibela has pretty standard Ethiopian fare. The shiro was a little spicier than I am used to and the injera wasn't quite as sour, but otherwise the food was identical to the food that I have eaten at other Ethiopian restaurants.
I liked the fact that Lalibela used the word "vegan" to describe the vegetarian options (which are the same at all Ethiopian restaurants and are almost always vegan, but most restaurants just write "vegetarian"). I went on a Saturday night and there was a live music performance by a jazz pianist, which was also a nice touch.