Red Sea Ethiopian & Eritrean Cuisine Restaurant

5200 Claremont Ave, Oakland
(510) 655-3757

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Vegetarian Combination
Meat and Veggie Combo
Fish with Spinach
Shrimp Alitcha
House Combo
Hot Kitfo
Injera
Hummus

Soft Drinks
Soda
Ginger Beer
Fountain Soda
Ginger Ale

Juice
Red Sea Fruit Mix
Juice
Lemonade
Intati
Telba.
Mineral Water
Ice Tea

Hot Drinks
Chai Maziwa
Tea
Coffee
Latte
Espresso
Cappuccino
Tea Corretto

Appetizers
Meat Sambusa
Vegetarian Sambusa
3 egg roll skins, cumin seed, green onion, garlic powder dash, seasoned salt dash, and black pepper.
Hummus
Hummus with pita.
Timatim Salad
Green Salad
Lentil Soup
Lentil, onions, garlic, turmeric, cumin with a touch of parsley in lemon juice, and more.

Poultry
Hot Sebhi Dorho
Tender chicken marinate in lemon, sauteed in seasoned butter, stewed in a red pepper sauce, flavored with onions, garlic, ginger root, a pinch of cardamom, and nutmeg.
Kilwa Dorho
Tender boneless chicken sauteed in spices.
Zel Dorh
Tender boneless chicken with spinach, onion red pepper, and garlic sauce.
Dorho Kantisha
Boneless chicken cubes. Broccoli, mushrooms cooked with choice of curry, or red pepper sauce.

Lamb
Kilwa Begee Yebeg Tibbs
Delectable lamb chunks sauteed in spiced butter onions and green peppers. Delicately flavored with black pepper.
Begee Alitcha Yebeg Alitcha
Mildly spiced lamb stew.

Beef
Hot Kitfo
Fresh chopped beef with spiced butter, selection of natural spices, and specially prepared hot pepper. Also served in a leb-leb style with home made cottage cheese and spinach.
Mild Zilzil Tibbs
Lady fingered top round stir fried with traditional spices, onion, and garlic.
Hot Zigni Kei Wot
Delectable beef chunks, simmered in red pepper sauce and lanced with exotic home made spices.
Kelwa Yesiga Tibbs
Tender beef cubes stir fried with red pepper sauce, onions, and other exotic spices.
Hot Gored (Gored)
Top round beef sauteed in spiced butter and lemon juice and slightly cooked.
Zelbo
Top quality beef chunks and spinach seasoned with ginger root and garlic and simmered in herbal butter sauce with onions.
Kelwa Fitfit
Tender beef cubes stir fried with red pepper sauce, onions, and other exotic spices.
Kelwa Dinish

Vegetarian
Shiro
Chickpeas. Medium, mildly seasoned chickpeas cooked with onions, tomato paste, and light pepper.
Mixed Vegetable
Broccoli, carrots, onions, cabbage cooked in tomato sauce, and fresh natural spices.
Silssi
For those who delight in hot and spicy. This dish is prepared with a liberal amount of onions.
Engudai
Broccoli, zucchini, mushrooms cooked in tomato, onion, and garlic sauce.
Kantisha
Mushrooms cooked in tomato sauce and spices.
Mild Bamiya
Okra and potatoes cooked in mildly spiced red pepper sauce with onions, garlic, and ginger.
Mild Birsin and Yemisir Wot
Ground split red lentils cooked with red pepper garlic and ginger.
Mild Hamli Gomen
Collard greens cooked in onion and garlic sauce.
Hot Sebhi Hamli Gomen Wot
Collard greens cooked in spicy red pepper sauce.
Mild Alitcha Dinish
A delicious mixture of carrots, chopped potatoes, and onions, sauteed in garlic, ginger root, and turmeric sauce.
Mild Tumtumo
Pureed split peas in turmeric sauce garlic and ginger.

House Specialities
Vegetarian Combination
Sample of assorted dishes, spinach, lentil, peas, and ham.
Red Sea Special (2)
Beef, lamb, each chunk stued, onion, garlic, and jalapeno.
Red Sea Special (1)
Beef, shrimp each chunk stued, onion, garlic, and jalapeno.
House Combo
Combination of vegetarian, chicken, lamb, beef, shrimp alicha, spinach, and peas. Serves 3-4.
Red Sea Combination
Sample of assorted dishes, chicken, lamb, beef, spinach, and peas.

Pasta
Spaghetti
Pasta Maccroni

Sea Food
Mild Shrimp Alitcha
Shrimp sauteed in spiced butter with onion, tomatoes, and garlic.
Hot Sebhi Shrimp Yeshrimp Wot
Small sized shrimp sauteed in spicy red pepper sauce with onions, garlic, and ginger. Hot and spicy.
Shrimp and Spinach
Shrimp and spinach sauteed in our natural spices with garlic and onions.
Fish Mixed with Spinach
Fish, spinach sauteed in our natural spices with garlic, and onions.

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Recent Reviews

For a place that's been around for 45 years I figured they had nailed down the food (at least). The menu was filled with typos and the ordering site had its sambusa information mixed up.

The dive-y atmosphere seems to work for the folks who were hanging out in the (loud) bar that led to the dining room. But the music poured into the room and collided with the atmospheric (random) music.
I was intrigued and pleasantly surprised by the salad with...
May 2025
I’d consider getting the okra dish again for takeout only. I don’t think I’d dine here again. The place was half bar half restaurant but the music in each poured into both spaces and clashed. Everything seemed very worn and dated, and like it hasn’t been thought about in years. We had the vegetarian combo and the bismiya (okra) dish. the food was fine enough, some items were underwhelming. the only thing worth mentioning was the okra dish- that we thoroughly enjoyed.
May 2025
Authentic Eritrean/Ethiopian cuisine. The food is delicious and great service. You have a choice of the patio area, the restaurant, and the bar area. Overall the best Eritrean/Ethiopian food in the Bay Area.
April 2025

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Red Sea Ethiopian & Eritrean Cuisine Restaurant

5200 Claremont Ave, Oakland, CA 94618
(510) 655-3757