Ethiopia, Injera Restaurant

Injera
11 Abingdon Square

After seeing Miyazaki's last movie Princess Mononoke at IFC, we decided to walk around the West Village and JK (10 years old) asked if we could try some Ethiopian food. Considering this kid has a palette limited to hot dogs and sausages and pancakes (and ketchup), we quickly agreed and found Injera on Abingdon Square.  

We ordered the meat platter for 2 plus one vegetarian platter or the 4 of us (2 adults and 2 non-adventurous eating kids).

The food was beautiful and delicious.
The server had to tell us (a couple of times) what was what.

JK gamely tried a little bit of each type of food that was on the plate but it was pretty spicy for him "hot! hot! Mom! Water!!!!!"  The highlight of the meal was eating with our hands. SK (6 years old) enjoyed rolling up bits of food in the injera and feeding it to us but I don't think anything passed her little lips. When we went for cups of ice cream later on in the evening, they asked if they should eat that with their hands also - I should have said yes.

The beets were a hit because they were
the least spicy food on the plate

The injera is made from Teff (the world's
smallest grain as we learned from the menu).

They gave us as much Injera as we could possible eat.