CherCher Ethiopian Cuisine

4921 Bethesda Ave, Bethesda
(301) 652-6500

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Chercher Combination of Vegan and Meat Sampler
Dine in: Yes Outdoor seating: No Takeout: Yes
Chercher Beef or Chicken TIBS Salad
Kids Vegan Combo Serve with Injera
Injera Per Slice Made in Us
Chercher House Special TIBS
Special Vegan Combo 7 Items
Silterra Prosecco Glass
Vegan and Meat Combo 2
Deluxe Vegan Platter

Menu

Appetizer
Sambosa - Lentil (1 pc)
Chopped lentil mixed with hot green peppers, onions, and garlic wrapped in homemade thin flatbread. Served hot.

Entrees - Beef
Chercher House Special Tibs
Tenderloin beef tibs cooked with onion, green chilies seasoned with garlic, black pepper, and herbed.
Special Kitfo
Finely chopped tender sirloin seasoned with herbed butter sauce and hot chili powder (mitmita). Served raw, cooked, or well done, with collard green, and two different style homemade cheese on the side.
Deluxe Kitfo
Finely chopped tender sirloin seasoned with herbed butter sauce and hot chili powder (mitmita). Served raw, slightly cooked or well done, with collard green, qocho (traditional fermented flatbread), and homemade cheese on the side.
Awaze Tibs
Beef cubes cooked in awaze sauce with onion, fresh garlic, and tomato.
Tibs Firfir
Tender beef cubes sautéed with onion, tomatoes, awaze, and jalapeno mixed with injera pieces.
Gored Gored
The tenders undercut cubes of beef mixed with onion, jalapeno seasoned with herbed butter sauce, and hot - chili powder (mitmita).
Regular Tibs
Choice of hot or mild beef meat chunks sautéed in oil seasoned with onions, green pepper, rosemary, and fresh tomato.
Zil Zil Tibs
Strips of charbroiled Tib eye beef seasoned with garlic, tomato, onion, jalapeno pepper, and exotic herbs.
Konta Firfir
Dried beef stew sauteed in berbere sauce, onions, tomatoes, butter, and garlic. Served mild or hot mixed with injera pieces.
Bozena Shiro Wot
Ethiopian style ground split peas simmered in a spicy berbere sauce. Topped with beef ribs.
Geba Weta Tibs
Tender short beef tibs eye sautéed in oil with onion, garlic, jalapeno pepper rosemary, and exotic herbs.

Vegan and Meat Sampler
Chercher Combination of Vegan and Meat Sampler
Includes choice of 4 items of vegan entrees, lamb stew, and doro wot.
Chercher Combination of Vegan and Meat Sampler
10 items includes portions of special vegan entrees and 4 meat dishes, yebeg wot (spicy) or yebeg alicha wot, doro wot (spicy) or doro alicha, regular ribs, and ketfo.

Entrees- Lamb
Yebeg Wot (Lamb Stew)
Tender pieces of lamb simmered in berbere sauce, seasoned with ginger root, garlic, and cardamom. Served with yogurt.
Yebeg Tibs
Tender pieces of lamb sautéed in oil seasoned with onions, jalapeno pepper, and fresh tomato.
Yebeg Alecha Wot
Tender pieces of lamb marinated with spiced butter sauteed with garlic, ginger, and turmeric.

Entrees- Chicken
Doro Wot
Chicken seasoned with onions, garlic, fresh ginger sauteed with herbal butter, and simmered in berbere. Served with hard boiled egg yogurt.
Doro Tibs
Chicken breast seasoned with fresh ginger, garlic, tomato, onion, and jalapeño pepper.
Doro Alecha Wot
Chicken seasoned with onions, garlic, fresh ginger sauteed with herbal butter, and tumerio.

Entrees Fish
Salmon Tibs
Chopped fresh salmon sauteed with tomatoes, garlic, ginger, onion, lemon, and jalapeno.
Fish Dullet
Chopped tilapia fish sauteed with olive oil, garlic, onion, lemon, and green pepper.
Yasa Tibs
Fresh tilapia fish sauteed with garlic, onion, lemon, and fried with oil.
Pasta with Ground Beef
Pasta. Served with ground beef, tomato sauce, and roll of bread.
Pasta with Tomato Sauce
Pasta. Served with a homemade tomato sauce and roll of bread.

Vegan Dish
Deluxe Vegan Combo (10 Items)
Combination of yellow split pea stew, spicy red lentils, collard green, cabbage, whole lentils, string beans stew with carrot and salad, string beans stew, and salad.
Special Vegam Combo (7 Items)
Combination of yellow split pea stew, spicy red lentils, collard green, cabbage, whole lentils, hot chickpeas flour sauce, string beans stew, salad, seasoned scrambled chickpea powder, and beets
Shiro Wot
Highly seasoned chickpea powder simmered in a spicy berbere sauce mixed with onion and garlic.
Tikil Gomen
Finely chopped cabbage are steamed, mixed with carrots, peppers, ginger, garlic, and onions.
Yemisir Kik Wot
Split lentils with garlic, onion, olive oil, and simmered in a spicy berbere sauce.
Fasolia Be Carrot
String beans, carrots sauteed in onion, tomato, garlic, ginger, and green beans.
Yater Kik Alecha Wot
Split peas sauteed with onions, garlic, ginger, and turmeric.

Salad
Ethiopian Style Tomato Salad
Chopped tomatoes, jalapeno, bell peppers, onion olive oi, and lemon. Served with homemade salad dressing.
Avocado Salad
Chopped avocados mixed with green onions, tomatoes, and jalapeno peppers. Serve with homemade salad dressing.
Chercher ribs Salad
Choice of seasoned beef or chicken. Served with mixed green salad, tomato, red onion, garlic, red bell peppers, fresh lemon juice, and homemade salad dressing.

Kids Mains
Vegan Combo Serve with Injera
Spaghetti with Beef and Roll of Bread

Dessert
Baklava
Tiramisu Cake
Napoleon Cake
Cheesecake

Cold Soft Drinks
Soda
Ice Tea
Perrier Water
Juice
Evian Water

Hot Drinks
Tea
Cappuccino
Espresso

Sides
Extra Injera
Gluten-Free Injera
Gomen(Collor Green) Side
Misir(lentil) Side
Cabbage Side
Kik (Yellow Pea)Side
Fosolia Side
Shero side
Defin Misir(whole Lentil) side
Beets Side
Chick Peas Side

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Recent Reviews

Came with two friends and had a great time. We all split a veggie combo, and they split something else, and then I got my own fish dish. The food came out in decent time, in a nice display, and with plenty of extra injera. I especially like the yellow split peas and cut tilapia that they make.
June 2026
Get ready for this place to go viral. Of all the places to eat in Bethesda, this one is the best. Perfect combo of delicious food, easy parking and stellar atmosphere. I'm surprised this place is not packed.
For vegan dining this is also a gem, I ordered the vegetable combo and was totally satiated. My daughter also loves the food.
One day soon this places going to have a 2 hour line out the door and your friends are all going to be like 'Have you eaten...
June 2026
Visited the Chercher restaurant for dinner on a Saturday night. It was almost packed with lots of patrons. The food was delicious. The serve staff was very friendly. The only downside was that there weren’t enough servers. There were only 2 servers to serve the whole restaurant, which was grossly inadequate. Everything else was great.
May 2026

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CherCher Ethiopian Cuisine

4921 Bethesda Ave, Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 652-6500