Desta Ethiopian Kitchen

3086 Briarcliff Rd NE, Atlanta
(404) 929-0011

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Meat Lovers Plate with Vegetarian Platter and Lentil Sambusa
Lamb Cabbage Greens Red Lentil and Potatoes with Injera
Do You Like Your TIBS a Different Way
Veggie Platter with Chicken TIBS
Chicken TIBS with Rice
Collard Greens Gomen
Lamb TIBS with Mizer
Meat Lovers TIBS
Veggie Platter
Salmon Sandwich

Menu

Featured items
Tibs
Tender cubed meat of your choice sauteed in destas secret blend of spices, onions, tomatoes, peppers, and spiced olive oil.
Vegan Platter
Shiro, misir, ater, dinech wot, gomen, cabbage, salad, azifa, beets, and tomato fit fit.
Sambusa
Stuffed with choice of either minced or beef or lentils.
Meat Lovers
Choose any 3 types of meat, starch, and sides
Pasta
Sauteed with shiro and tomato based sauce. Served with a salad.
Goden Tibs
Sizzling prime short ribs marinated with desta sauce, onion, tomato, fresh garlic, and jalapeno.
Kifto Wrap
Injera or tortilla flour wrap filled with delicious kitfo, served rare, medium rare or medium well.
Sandwiches
Salmon Starter Salad
Topped with choice of rare or cooked salmon, seasoned with ethiopian spices.

Breakfast Mains
Breakfast Combo
Includes kinche, scrambled eggs, and chechebsa. Served with wheat bread, pita, or injera.
Fetira
Ethiopian breakfast consisting of flatbread layered with eggs. Served with honey.
Foul
Crushed beans sauteed with spices, garnished with fresh diced onions, tomatoes, and pepper. Finished with olive oil or butter. Served on wheat bread or pita.
Chehebsa
Small pieces of flatbread braised with berbere and choice of Ethiopian butter or olive oil.
Scrambled Eggs
Sauteed with onions, tomatoes, pepper, and ethiopian butter. Served on wheat bread or pita.
Brunch
Comes with fir fir, kinche, ethiopian style scrambled eggs, chechebsa, tibs, kitfo, and ayib. Served with wheat bread, pita, or injera. Serves 2 to 4.
Kinche
Cracked wheat cooked tender with ethiopian butter and spices.

Appetizers
Sambusa
Stuffed with choice of either minced or beef or lentils.
Kifto Wrap
Injera or tortilla flour wrap filled with delicious kitfo, served rare, medium rare or medium well.
Salmon Starter Salad
Topped with choice of rare or cooked salmon, seasoned with ethiopian spices.
Gomen Siljo Dip
A blended dish of tofu and gomen seasoned with garlic, ginger, hot mustard, and a touch of olive oil. Served with choice of injera or pita bread.
Tomato Fitfit
Diced tomatoes, onions, and jalapeno pepper mixed with pieces of injera. Served cold.
Kifto Slice
Tortilla slice filled delicious kitfo, ayib, and jalapeno peppers.

Signature Entrees
Tibs
Tender cubed meat of your choice sauteed in destas secret blend of spices, onions, tomatoes, peppers, and spiced olive oil.
Goden Tibs
Sizzling prime short ribs marinated with desta sauce, onion, tomato, fresh garlic, and jalapeno.
Sandwiches
Meat Lovers
Choose any 3 types of meat, starch, and sides
Pasta
Sauteed with shiro and tomato based sauce. Served with a salad.
Salad
Salads with our delicious house dressing. Top it off with your choice of savory meat or seafood, with side of wheat bread.
Salad
Salads with our delicious house dressing. Top it off with your choice of savory meat or seafood, with side of wheat bread.
Biret Mitad Tibs
Sauteed cuts of meat at extra high heat, served well done with your choice of a side.
Kifto
Ethiopian style steak tartar, freshly minced extra lean beef, seasoned with mitmita and Ethiopian spiced butter.
Kifto
Ethiopian style steak tartar, freshly minced extra lean beef, seasoned with mitmita and Ethiopian spiced butter.
Salmon Kifto
Ethiopian style steak tartar, freshly minced extra lean beef, seasoned with mitmita and Ethiopian spiced butter.

Vegan
Vegan Platter
Shiro, misir, ater, dinech wot, gomen, cabbage, salad, azifa, beets, and tomato fit fit.
Miser (SPICY SPLIT RED LENTIL STEW)
Spicy split red lentil stew. Lentils stewed in a rich barbere sauce, onions, garlic, and ginger.
Ater (YELLOW SPLIT PEA STEW)
Yellow split peas stewed in a special sauce with onions, tumeric, and ginger.
Shiro (CHICKPEA STEW)
Chickpea stew. Ground chickpeas simmered in a rich house sauce and spiced with olive oil.
GOMEN
Collard greens. Fresh collard greens sauteed with onions, garlic, and ginger.
Tikel Gomen
Fresh cabbage sauteed with onions, garlic, ginger, carrots, and turmeric.
Dinich Wot (POTATO STEW)
Potato stew. Potatoes, simmered with berbere, onions, garlic, and other spices.
Mushroom Stew
Sauteed with onions, fresh garlic, and fresh ginger.
Tomato Fit Fit
Finely diced tomatoes, onion, peppers, and garlic minced with our dressing.

Specialities
The Original Meat Lovers
Served with kifto, gored gored and biret mitad tibs.
Fir Fir
Contains bits of injera soaked in spiced berbere sauce with your choice of succulent meat or seafood.
Potato Stew
Cooked with your choice of ground beef, cubed meat or lamb, with butter or olive oil.
Fish Dulet
Finely minced tilapia or grouper with tomato, and onions.
Salmon Gored Gored
Rare or cooked salmon cubes mixed mitmita, awaze, onions, and peppers.
Bozena Shiro
Chickpea stew with your choice of ground or cubed meat.
Works Fir Fir
Firfir served with kitfo, kinche, and ayib.
Gored Gored
Lean beef cubes mixed with mitmita, awaze, onions, and peppers.
Shiro Fir Fir
Split peas stewed in a special sauce, onions, garlic, and ginger. With a choice of olive oil or ethiopian butter.
Fir Fir

Beverages
Soda
Juice
Tea
Bottled Water
Iced Latte
Pellegrino
Café Latte
Mocchiato
Perrier Water
Coffee
Espresso

Desserts
Baklava
Tiramisu
Dulce De Leche Cheesecake
Limoncello Mascarpone Cake
Cheesecake Ale Fragole
Napoleon
Chocolate Fondant Cake
Mini Mixed Berry Cake
Mini Red Velvet Cake

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Recent Reviews

I love this restaurant from a long time ago great restaurant great environment grateful I love the owners that great people very home by environment for the family. I give you this place 20 thumbs up if I had a 😂.
October 2025
Eyerus was phenomenal!!!!! This lady is a huge ASSET to the facility. I would eat from here anytime as long as she is here. I have never experienced courtesy like what she provided us. She is a GREAT server.
October 2025
EDIT: The issue described in my original review (which I left below) was resolved, and I was very happy with how it was handled. I decided to update my review with that in mind. I haven't tried anything I have disliked here yet, and usually go for one of the beef options of the tibs with injera and mushroom stew.

Original review: Soooo I love the food from this place, but I ordered take out, and part of it was an 8$ piece of chocolate fondant cake. I am...
October 2025

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Desta Ethiopian Kitchen

3086 Briarcliff Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30329
(404) 929-0011