Lalibela Ethiopian Restaurant

176 Temple St, New Haven
(203) 789-1232

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Lalibela Vegetarian Combination Sampler Dishes
Pot of Ethiopian Coffee
Yemesir Sambusa
Special TIBS
Yater Fitfit
Veggie Combo
Gored Gored
Yemisir Wat
Yebeg Kikil
Doro TIBS

Menu

Featured items
19. Lalibela Vegetarian Combination Sampler Dishes
21. Doro Wot
Chicken cooked in butter, sauteed onions, seasoned with garlic, fresh ginger, berbere, herbs, and slowly simmered until tender.
23. Kitfo
Ethiopian version of steak tartare. Finely chopped prime beef seasoned with mitmita, purified butter, and Ethiopian spices. Served with homemade cottage cheese.
31. Yebeg Tibs
Lamb sauteed in vegetable oil, seasoned with onions, and green peppers.
24. Siga Wot
Cubed prime beef cooked in onions, ginger, garlic, purified butter, and berbere.
27. Special Tibs
Tender tip pieces of beef sauteed in vegetable oil with fresh tomatoes, green peppers and red onions, with a touch of rosemary, and other spices.
20. Doro Tibs
Diced chicken sauteed with onions, rosemary, and pepper. Served with awaze hot pepper paste.
22. Doro Alicha
Tender chicken cooked in a mild sauce.
Specialty Dish Platter
15. Shuro
Highly seasoned chick peas in a berbere sauce.

Appetizers
1. Yemisir Sambusa
Pastry stuffed with spiced lentils.
2. Yesiga Sambusa
Pastry stuffed with spiced ground beef.
9. Kategna
Injera is rendered into an amber toast with a coating of awaze and kibe.
3. Yedoro Sambusa
Pastry stuffed with spiced chicken.
5. Timatim Fitfit
Tomatoes, shallots, and green peppers in house dressing mixed with injera.
8. Yater Fitfit
Dried peas slowly cooked with fresh garlic, ginger roots and spices, mixed with injera, and garnished with long hot peppers. Served chilled.
7. Senge Karya
Two long hot peppers stuffed with sauteed fresh tomatoes, onions, garlic, and shallots. Served with injera.
6. Selata
Tomato salad with house dressing.
4. Key Sir Selata
Beets, potatoes, carrots, shallots, and green peppers with house dressing.

Lalibela Vegetarian
19. Lalibela Vegetarian Combination Sampler Dishes
10. Yemisir Wot
Lentils slowly cooked in a flavorful berbere sauce with a blend of spices.
17. Kosta
Spinach and potatoes slowly cooked in a blend of mild spices.
13. Gomen
Collard greens slowly cooked in a flavorful mild sauce with garlic and a blend of spices.
12. Fosolia
Green beans, carrots, and onions sauteed in a blend of exotic herbs.
18. Zucchini
Green squash, carrots, and onions sauteed in a blend of exotic herbs.
16. Tikel Gomen
Cabbage and potatoes cooked in vegetable oil, onions, fresh garlic, and a blend of spices.
15. Shuro
Highly seasoned chick peas in a berbere sauce.
14. Misir Alicha
Green lentils slowly cooked in a flavorful mild sauce with a blend of spices.
11. Ater Kik
Yellow split peas cooked in a specially flavored mild sauce.

Chicken
21. Doro Wot
Chicken cooked in butter, sauteed onions, seasoned with garlic, fresh ginger, berbere, herbs, and slowly simmered until tender.
20. Doro Tibs
Diced chicken sauteed with onions, rosemary, and pepper. Served with awaze hot pepper paste.
22. Doro Alicha
Tender chicken cooked in a mild sauce.

Beef
24. Siga Wot
Cubed prime beef cooked in onions, ginger, garlic, purified butter, and berbere.
27. Special Tibs
Tender tip pieces of beef sauteed in vegetable oil with fresh tomatoes, green peppers and red onions, with a touch of rosemary, and other spices.
26. Gored Gored
Very lean beef marinated in red wine and rosemary, sauteed in vegetable oil with onions and garlic. Served with awaze hot pepper paste.
25. Siga Alicha
Cubed beef sauteed in butter, turmeric, garlic, fresh ginger, and white pepper.
23. Kitfo
Ethiopian version of steak tartare. Finely chopped prime beef seasoned with mitmita, purified butter, and Ethiopian spices. Served with homemade cottage cheese.

Lamb
31. Yebeg Tibs
Lamb sauteed in vegetable oil, seasoned with onions, and green peppers.
29. Yebeg Wot
Lamb cooked in garlic, onions, and berbere sauce.
28. Yebeg Kikil
Succulent lamb cooked and seasoned with a special blend of spices.
30. Zilbo Gomen
Collard greens and tender pieces of lamb seasoned with onions and green peppers.

Seafood
34. Yasa Wot
Chunks of filleted white fish cooked in berbere and herb sauce.
33. Shrimp Alicha
Shrimp sauteed in vegetable oil with garlic, in a mild sauce.
32. Shrimp Wot
Shrimp sauteed in vegetable oil with garlic in berbere sauce.

Lalibela Combinations
Specialty Dish Platter

Desserts
37. Baklava
36. Chocolate Cake

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Recent Reviews

The food at this restaurant was so amazingly delicious! Service was great and fast. Would definitely come back and visit any time I'm in the area. More importantly, I lost an expensive wallet and bag and thought it was gone forever. I opened my instagram DM requests two weeks later to find one of the employees not only found and messaged me letting me know they have it, but found out they've already mailed it to the location on my ID. So grateful for kind, honest people....
October 2025
Lalibela was my introduction to Ethiopian food. The Vegetarian Combo Sampler is where it’s at. I’ve also ordered most of their veg entrees by themselves & I cannot recommend them highly enough.

This review is for the Brick + Mortar restaurant, not the food truck that sometimes parks on an Orange between Wall and Elm- ordered the lunch version of the veg combo & was way lackluster- almost like the truck & the restaurant were unrelated.
October 2025
This is truly the best restaurant in New Haven. The food is absolutely delicious, and the owners are simply wonderful people. They graciously helped us host a birthday celebration with over 60 Yale students, and everything turned out festive, joyful, and filled with amazing food. Thank you so much for making the celebration unforgettable.
September 2025

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Lalibela Ethiopian Restaurant

176 Temple St, New Haven, CT 06510
(203) 789-1232