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Authentic and nice African food, quite close to the center of Lausanne! One of the fee Ethiopian restaurants in Switzerland! Recommend of you want to try real african good! Nice service.

The service in the restaurant is average, but the food is good. If you don 't know ethiopian food, I advice the Menu découverte which enables you to discover this kind of food for a faire price. The decoration of the place is nice and traditional. Note that, like in Ethiopia, you will have to eat with you hands!

Have been contemplating from a long time about this cuisine. The food was fine but thought that the vegetarian dishes other than lentils lacked variety for the price. Service and ambience was acceptable nothing extraordinary. Overall was not so great but can't either say was bad. Perhaps go their once again and then have an second opinion.

While living in Lausanne I went a couple of times to this place. I don't pretend to be a connaisseur of Ethiopian cuisine but for me it was a pretty nice experience. Hygiene lovers, beware, food there is eaten with fingers from a common plate which in my opinion makes it even tastier. So if this practice repels you just don't go there. The proposed dishes are all rather copious and the variety of tastes didn't remind of anything I ate before. Price wise it's not really cheap but I think the experience worth it.

I love Ethiopian food and was excited to see a restaurant in Lausanne. As my fiancé is allergic to gluten, I was excited to introduce him to a naturally gluten-free place where he could eat the famed dish of Injera. Low and behold, this restaurant goes the cheap route by replacing the teff flour with wheat flour...and then still charges and arm and a leg!!! Unacceptable! I am sure many people that don't understand French have eatn here assuming it was gluten-free as it should be. Save yourself and to the delightful little pizza place across the street that does offer gluten-free tasty pizzas!

I've been there many times to get my Ethiopian food fix, but every time, I ask myself if there isn't a more welcoming Ethiopian or Eritrean place to go in the area. As always, the food is good, though perhaps a little light on the main dishes and heavy on the cold salad-like fillers that take up the empty space on the underlying ingera. The waiter was somewhat zombie-like and didn't respond very well to a complaint I made in an extremely politely manner considering what I was complaining about. Positive: Tasty food. Negatives: Big on fillers, somewhat skimpy on main dishes; sad waiter; despite all that, not cheap.

We went there for a family dinner as we have often walked past the restaurant and it seemed interesting. The biggest disappointment was the fact that the vegeterian plater that has been ordered by one of us (which costs 30CHF) was just a handfull of lentils and some other vegetables. The taste of the food was ok, but paying this price is rediculous for this sort of food and the little quantity of it! We also ordered several meat dishes, some were good, some were chewy. Basically the quality of the food is not consistent with every dish. I would not recommend this place to anyone and i am certainly not coming back there again.

On our first ever visit to Lausanne, we looked up restaurants on Maps and this one popped up so we said why not, since we absolutely love Ethiopian food. The atmosphere was absolutely depressing. Dim lights (not in a good way) and dusty corners. We chose a Menu Dégustation for 2 people, the price in front of it was 38 CHF which seemed quite OK. We've been to better restaurants in Geneva which had similar prices. After our food arrived, we were disappointed in the mediocre quality and quantity of it. It was meh. Not bad, just meh. We didn't finish our plate, and after a more mediocre dessert, we asked for the check and to our surprise, it was 86-ish francs! Apparently, 38 CHF was the price pe...

I really like Ethiopian food and was looking forward to this visit as I had recently visited another Ethiopian/ Eritrean restaurant close by called the Red Sea. My first impression of Abyssinia from the outside was not really great. I think the entrance signboard and façade looked outdated and could definitely improve apparently the restaurant has been around for a decade). looks a bit like a Kebab take away shop. But this was ok and could be overlooked as the interiors were a different story altogether. As in really really great! Rustic, authentic decor from the ceiling to the seating to the menu card right up to the toilet entrance! Really loved it! I love authenticity and this place oozed...