Queen of Sheba

The royal platter is a mix of eight meat and veggie options, plus yoghurt and salad, served on soft and spongy injera bread. Everything was delicious and it's great to have a whole range of flavours and textures. At about $34pp we were very satisfied with the value and left satisfied. Server was friendly and attentive, and the Ethiopian music was fantastic. Hope to see this place stick around and grow in popularity, it deserves it!Didn't realise it was BYO, but will know for next time!

we had an incredibly tasty vegan share platter. every single dish was delicious, and I absolutely devoured the soft and spongy injera (very pleasant squish sensation with these rolls)baklava was also delicious

We had such an amazing dinner here tonight. We had the vegan banquet and it was absolutely delicious. The service was great and the food arrived quickly. We will definitely be coming back soon!

Food was really great, although it did take a while to come out considering there were only a few tables.The ambience in the place was uncomfortably quiet, so we decided to wait outside for our takeaway.Ethiopia has such incredible music - I suggest playing some music inside would really improve the vibe inside and make it feel more relaxed and welcoming to customers.It's so terrific that Ashfield has an Ethiopian restaurant now! The food was really tasty and a fair price. There was a lot of containers for our takeaway - maybe using those cardboard tray style containers (with lots of little dividers) that Lebanese restaurants use for platters could be a cheaper and more environmentally friendly option?I just wanted to pass on that feedback especially re: the ambience inside the restaurant because I think if you worked on that you would have more dine in customers and your restaurant deserves success! We will be back again soon. :)(We visited a few months ago, so this review reflects that visit).

We managed to try this place out as I recently just discovered it and I’ve been to a few Ethiopian restaurants in Sydney and Melbourne in the past and I’m a fan of Ethiopian food.Sydney needs more Ethiopian Restaurants, it’s a really tasty and underrated cuisine, so I was happy to come across this place when I first saw it.There is definitely some positives and negatives with this place.The positives: the location is great, it’s in a quieter section of Liverpool Road Ashfield where you will be able to conveniently find a car park.The price is also quite reasonable.The taste of the Injera is beautiful, they make it really nice here.. thin and soft and with a good level of sour to it.The negatives: the service needs improvement, while they were friendly to us, we found that the lack of knowledge on the menu was evident in the (very friendly) Indian waitress that was on at the time. Our issue was that we ordered 3 x Doro Wat, but when it came out, there was only 1 single Injera (for the three of us) and two pots of the doro wat chicken, we questioned whether we’ll be receiving another pot of chicken Doro wat and 2 more injera and it just became this explosion of confusion, the waitress found out from the kitchen that the chicken was a serving for three people that was put into 2 bowls (I hate it when places do that without telling us) but it didn’t explain why there was only 1 Injera amongst 3 people, that’s not enough.. in my experience with Ethiopian restaurants, you get 1 injera per main and it also said on the menu that it comes with injera, so we rightfully assumed of course that if you order 3 Doro wat, we would receive 3 injera in total, so we had to ask for two more Injera (that came out and were not presented like the first one was) I find it’s deceiving when the menu says that it comes with injera but they give you 1 injera amongst a group. When we questioned it, the lady had to go back and fourth between us and the kitchen clarifying what we were supposed to receive (which still didn’t seem right), then when we went to pay the bill they mentioned that we ordered 2 of the Doro Wat… This confusion and level of knowledge on the menu and inconsistency with what we ordered isn’t good enough for a Saturday night, luckily the place wasn’t really busy and we literally ordered 3 of the same thing, our order was very simple and we weren’t being difficult, I don’t know how or what went wrong.The Doro Wat chicken was pretty standard, it wasn’t bad but wasn’t great either, it smelt better than it tasted, I’ve definitely had better.I do hope this place improves and does well in the future. Best of luck to the owners.

Bit of a shame the service here wasn't great. I was super excited to finally try Ethiopian food and in the local Ashfield area! My partner and I arrived as the first customers of the night at around 5:50, ordering at 6 and unfortunately we didn't even up leaving until 8pm due to the slow service. We only ordered a main each and a coffee experience too. When we arrived, it felt very tense as well, the server was on her phone, charging it on the wall and the person in the kitchen was definitely chatting on loud speaker to someone, really creating a vibe that we were intruding on something, even though it was empty.The service itself was slow, very slow, and the server seemed so out of it and not wanting to be there with no mannerisms to make us want to enjoy eating there. We had a small table towards the back corner but a group of six arrived and we were asked to move, which is fine in itself, but if there's only one other table of four in the restaurant, it makes me question if the tables are appropriately set up if only two other tables are taken and one group of six makes you need to adjust everyone else's spacing.I can't comment on the food itself because this was my first time trying Ethiopian food and maybe it's not my taste but it was very cold, which doesn't make sense because it took over an hour to be delivered to our table. Also just looking at other pictures posted here, it seems we had a smaller serving than others???The coffee experience was a treat though, and I recommend it, but the server said it would be five minutes"

Great environment, great food!I made a booking for 8 friends 1 child, some had never tried Ethiopian food before and they really enjoyed it - we'll be coming back!The food came out faster than I expected, which is good and portion sizes we're reasonable.I asked the waitress if the Injera was made from 100% Teff, she said yes, but I have my doubts - didn't taste exactly as I expected but I could be wrong.Only two small points...I was expecting complimentary Ambasha (flatbread) to be served when we arrived.I didn't see tea (shiee) on the menu but when I asked it was available - might be something to add to the menu.We'll definitely be back!

Good Ethiopian food, however priceyThe Royal platter ($35pp) gives a sample of all 8 dishes. Food was overall tasty, the meats were a little tough and dry. The injera had a subtle sour flavour and was soft and fresh.The chef came out to greet us and show us how to eat with our hands the authentic way.For the price paid I would expect unlimited refills of injera like all other Ethiopian restaurants I’ve been to. We had to order an extra serve of injera which costs extraService was friendly and restaurant was clean with a vanity to wash your hands. Food was served about 20mins after ordering

Worth a try but a little underwhelming. I'm not that experienced with Ethiopian food, but from the few experiences I've had I feel that this place is comparatively just a bit meh. It's a cute atmosphere with a lovely waitress the second time we came (service was a bit slow/confusing the first time we went). I think this place is worth trying if you just really want Ethiopian food. The food overall is acceptable, but for me the let down is the quality of the meat dishes. The flavour is good, but the meat is very dry and a bit tough. My recommendation to the chef is to cook the meat for longer so it becomes softer as well as use a fattier cut of meat so that it is more succulent. The meat dishes would be great if they did this! The way the meat is cooked to be very dry seems like a very strange choice and surely not appealing to most people.