Shalla Ethiopian Restaurant and Bar

8081 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring
(301) 920-0082

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How Special Kitfo Was Served
2 Kinds of TIBS
Veggie Combo
Awaze TIBS
Godin TIBS
TIBS Firfir
Derek TIBS
Goden TIBS
Shint TIBS
Lega TIBS

Fasting Dish Menu
1. Mitin Shiro
Milled chickpeas stew cooked with aromatic Ethiopian spices.
2. Spaghetti
Spaghetti served with house-made tomato or meat sauce or fish dulet sauce.
3. Yesom Firfir
Injera mixed in stew made from fresh tomato, onion, garlic, and red hot paper.
4. Veggie Combo
Red split lentil yellow split peas collard green yellow cabbage with potato and diced tomato with salad dressing.
5. Timatim Fitfit
Diced tomato, green paper, with salad dressing tossed with Injera.
6. Asa Dulet
Ground tilapia fish cooked with onion, tomato, garlic, green paper or jalapeno and olive oil.
7. Asa Gulash
Fried chunk of whiting fish and lightly cooked with onion and jalapeno.
8. Whole Fish
Well fried tilapia medium-sized fish. Lemon on the side served with house salad.
8. Fried Fish
Well fried tilapia medium-sized fish. Lemon on the side served with house salad.
9. Rise With Vegetable
Rise mixed with vegetables: carrot, jalapeno, and onion.
10. Spaghetti With Vegetable
Spaghetti mixed with vegetables: carrot, jalapeno, and onion
11. Misir Key Wot
Red split lentils cooked with onion, and pepper.
12. Asa Sandwich
Fried tilapia fish fillet sandwiched in bread.

Main Dishes (Entrees)
1. Awaze Tibs
Chopped beef mixed with authentic Ethiopian spicy hot sauce, onion, garlic, & jalapeno cooked to perfection.
2. Lega Tibs
Cubed beef tenderloin, onion, jalapeno.
3. Kitfo
Ground prime beef, mitmita (hot pepper), Purified butter and spice (served raw, medium, well).
4. Geba Weta
Tenderloin beef bites, onion, and jalapeno cooked to perfection.
5. Tibs Firfir
Beef stew cooked with or without authentic Ethiopian spicy hot sauce, onion, tomato, garlic tossed with injera.
6. Zelzel Tibs
Beef strips cooked to perfection.
7. Goden Tibs
Beef ribs fried & cooked to perfection.
8. Kikil
Lamb shank, Beef tripe, cooked with onion, garlic, and ginger tossed with injera.
9. Dulet
Lamb tripe, kidney, liver, lean meat, onion, garlic, Jalapeno, clarified butter, and mitmita (served raw, medium, well).
10. Quanta Firfir
Beef jerky cooked with onion, tomato, garlic, tossed with injera.
11. Derek Tibs
Beef cooked with fresh tomato, onion, green pepper, garlic, and red paper and put on Injera.
13. Lega Yebeg Tibs
Cubed lamb, onion, Jalapeno pepper, rosemary, spices, and purified butter.
14. Doro Wet
Pieces of chicken leg, hard-boiled egg, onion, pepper (berbere), purified butter, and spice cooked to perfection.
15. Meat Combo of Four
Kitfo, beef kay wot, lega tibs, sega firfir.
16. Gored Gored
Prime beef, diced beef, pepper (berbere), Purified butter and spice (Served rear, raw).
17. Bozena Shiro
Ethiopian style ground chickpeas simmered in spicy pepper sauce and topped with beef tibs and homemade butter.
18. Shalla Special Kitfo
Buttered lean beef mixed with mitmita served with buttered homemade cheese, gomen and kotcho.
19. Shint Tibs
Ribeye beef cooked with onion, and jalapeno.
20. Kurt in House
Per lb. Raw beef served with awaze (Authentic Ethiopian herbs and mustard).
21. Kitfo Sandwich
Kitfo sandwiched in bread.
22. Melas Sember
Beef tripe, Ox tongue, some lean meat cooked with onion, and spicy pepper.
23. Beef Key Wot
Beef cut into small pieces, onion, powder pepper, purified butter spice.
24. Beef Alicha Wot
Beef cut into small pieces, onion, curry, purified butter spice.
25. Misto
A combo of beef key and alicha wot 50/50.

Sides
1. Shiro
Milled chickpeas stew cooked with aromatic Ethiopian spices.
2. Kike Alicha
Yellow split peas, onion, olive oil, curry and spices.
3. Misir Wot
Onion, pepper, and split lentils.
4. Gomen Wot
Onion, green pepper, and collared green.
5. Tekel Gomen
Onion, green pepper, carrot, cabbage, potato and spices.
6. Timatim
Diced tomato, green paper, with salad dressing.
7. Whole Fish
Well fried Tilapia small sized fish, lemon on the side.
7. Fried Fish
Well fried Tilapia small sized fish, lemon on the side.
8. Ethiopian Enjera
Ethiopian cultural bread made from grain teff.
9. Sambusa
Baked flour staffed with savory lintel, salted spicy and fry together or baked flour staffed with savory beef, salted spicy and fry together.
10. Chicken Wing
6 chicken wings breaded and deep fried or 8 chicken wings breaded and deep fried.
11. Chicken Nuggets
10 pieces. Already deboned chicken meat, breaded and deep fried.
12. French Fries
Already evenly strips potato deep fried in vegetable oil.
13. Beef Burger
Already prepared beef petites grilled and sandwiched with burger ban served with french fries.
14. Beef Hot Dog
Already prepared beef hot dog grilled and sandwiched with hot dog bun served with french fries.

Cold Beverages
Soda
Juice
Club Soda
Bottled Water
Perrier Water
Red Bull

Hot Beverage
Latte
Ethiopian Tea
Ethiopian Coffee
Espresso
Macchiato

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Recent Reviews

We observed in this place the five senses ! The Beef and Lamb Tibs was the best I have ever had , with crispy skin and Juicy meat! I love the atmosphere which family friendly sprit in this place! The Jazz music impressed us! Me and my family enjoyed the music , the food and the friendly and family atmosphere in Shalla Ethiopia resturant! The traditional incense aromatic fragrant refresh and therapeutic to us! And love the the resturant view ! The traditional tea is like a medicine...
September 2025
Shalla is second to none when it comes to the quality, taste and portion of meats esp geba weta is my most favorite though sometimes the taste is not that good and I guess it depends on the chef. But, the restaurant gotta ensure that the it should be smelling good and clean which is not the case.
March 2025
I had an unfortunate experience at SHALLA involving an unauthorized $30 overcharge. Instead of addressing the issue smoothly, the staff/owner made the resolution unnecessarily complicated, claiming they couldn’t locate the receipt. This led to extra effort on my part just to get my money back, which was frustrating and avoidable.

While I understand that mistakes can happen, I encourage management to improve their process for handling billing discrepancies...
February 2025

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Shalla Ethiopian Restaurant and Bar

8081 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20910
(301) 920-0082