Dilla Ethiopian restaurant

1813 Riverside Ave, Minneapolis
(612) 217-1909

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Sambusa Vegetal-pastel Etíope Com Lentilha Cebola Pimenta Jalapeno E Especiarias
Vegetarian Combination Playter
Meat and Veggie Combo
Awaze TIBS with Ginger
Injera with Lentils
Bea Soup of the Day
Sambusa with Veggies
Vegetarian Platter
Sambusa with Meat
Special Kitfo

Menu

Appetizers
Sambusa with Veggies
Pastry shell filled with lentils, onion, jalapeno, herbs, and spices. Served hot. Vegetarian and spicy.
Fish & Fries
Cod fillets served with tartar sauce.
Yeqwanta Firfir
Dried beef and injera cooked in red sauce.
Buffalo Wings
Served with ranch or Bleu cheese dressing.
Chicken Strips
Tender strips of chicken served with BBQ sauce.
Egg Firfir
Spicy. Scrambled eggs, tomatoes, onions, and jalapeños served with injera or bread.
Fried Egg with Meat
Fried egg with meat.
Fule
Pureed fava beans herbed with Ethiopian spices and served with bread. Vegetarian.
French Fries
One full pound of French fries. Vegetarian.

Salad
Greek Salad
Lettuce, tomatoes, onions, jalapeños, capers, olives, pickles, pepper, cucumbers, and Feta cheese. Vegetarian.
Chicken Salad
Skinless, boneless, grilled chicken breast on a bed of romaine lettuce, with sliced tomato, and sliced onion.
Fish Salad
Fried fish fillet with crisp lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumber.

Sandwich
Dilla's Sandwich
A marinated beef tender with grilled onion, jalapenos, and mayonnaise sauce on french bread. Spicy.
Kitfo Sandwich
The version of steak tartare, with spicy butter and mitmita and served with French bread.
Hamburger
Grilled burger with mayonnaise, lettuce, tomatoes, and onions.
Fish Sandwich
Fish fillet, lettuce, tomatoes, onion, cheese, and mayonnaise.
Chicken Sandwich
Chicken fillet, lettuce, tomatoes, onion, cheese, and mayonnaise.

Spaghetti
Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce
Regular or whole wheat pasta with tomato sauce. Served with salad.
Spaghetti with Meat Sauce
Regular or whole wheat pasta with meat sauce. Served with salad.

Cotelette
Beef Cutlet
Beefsteak marinated in special spices with bread crumbs and eggs. Served with salad.
Chicken Cutlet
Chicken steak marinated in special spices with bread crumbs and eggs. Served with salad.
Fish Cutlet
Fish fillet marinated in special spices with bread crumbs and eggs. Served with salad.

Curry
Lamb Curry
Marinated tender lamb meat cooked with jalapenos, onion, tomatoes, and served with your choice of rice or bread. Spicy.
Chicken Curry
Marinated chicken tender cooked with jalapenos, onion, tomatoes, and served with your choice of rice or bread. Spicy.

Entrées
Doro Tibs
Boneless chicken breast marinated in olive oil, garlic, and rosemary, sautéed with spicy butter, onions, tomatoes, and jalapeños. Spicy.
Bozena Shiro
Tender beef in a pea flour sauce cooked with onions, garlic, and pepper.
Awaze Tibs
Cubed tender beef marinated cooked with tomato, jalapeño, garlic, and berbere. Spicy.
Doro Watt
Chicken pieces cooked gently and tenderly with garlic, onions, fresh ginger, and berbere sauce. Served with a hard-boiled egg.
Special Kitfo
Freshly minced, very lean beef with mixed spicy butter and mitmita. Served with homemade Cottage cheese and gomen.
Yegel Tibs
Siegel tibs.
Tibs Fitfit
Cubed tender beef marinated cooked with tomato, garlic, and berbere sauce, mixed with a piece of injera. Popular.
Siga Wot
Hot and spicy beef stew made of lean beef sliced and simmered slowly in berbere, nitter kibbe (purified and seasoned butter), with finely chopped onions and garlic. Spicy.
Goden Tips (Beef Ribs)
Beef ribs sautéed in spicy butter seasoned with onion, black pepper, green peppers, and rosemary. Spicy.
Zilzil Tibs
Tender beef grilled and marinated with our herbal butter and red chili sauce.
Kitfo with Cocho
Freshly minced, very lean beef with mixed spicy butter and mitmita. Served with homemade cottage cheese and spinach.
Kitfo Dulet
Freshly minced, very lean beef mixed and cooked with butter onion, jalapeño peppers, and special Red Sea spices. Spicy.
Gomen Besga
Seasoned beef cooked with collard greens, onions, and garlic.
Beef Alichi Fitfit
Mild spicy lamb stew mixed with a piece of injera. Spicy.
Dulet
Carefully cleaned lamb tripe and liver mixed with lean red meat, diced onion, garlic, jalapeño, and Ethiopian butter. Spicy.
Gored Gored
Chunk cubed meat (beef) mixed with homemade awaze sauce, diced onion, jalapeño, and our herbal butter. Spicy.
Minchetabish
Finely chopped prime beef braised in mild ginger and garlic sauce.
Anat Banatu
Very lean beef warmed in spiced butter, served medium or well cooked, mixed with key wot fit, rich and spicy served with cottage cheese and a boiled egg. Spicy.

Fish
Asa Gulash
Filet of tender tilapia fish sautéed in aromatic herbs, olive oil, and berbere.

Vegetarian
Veggie Combination
Combination of miser wot, ater wot, Shiro, tegabino, nech gommen, fesolea, Yusef fit, spinach. Vegetarian.
Dilla's Mix
Dilla's mixed vegetable mix of potatoes, carrots, cabbage, broccoli, beans, and baby corn. Vegetarian.
Shiro
Pure ground yellow split peas, cooked with hot sauce and mild curry. Spicy and vegetarian.
Tegabino
Ground yellow peas, oil, and onion sautéed together. Vegetarian.
Yesuff Fitfit
Injera smothered with sunflower seeds, onion, garlic, jalapeños, and tomatoes. Spicy and vegetarian.
Miser Wot
Split lentils cooked with fresh garlic, ginger, and onions, with berbere sauce. Vegetarian.
Ater Wot
Yellow split peas marinated with fresh garlic, ginger, and green pepper, cooked with mild curry. Vegetarian.
Fesolea
Green beans, carrots, potatoes, onions, and pepper cooked in a mild sauce. Vegetarian.
Nech Gommen
White cabbage, carrots, potatoes, onions, and pepper mixed and cooked in a mild sauce. Vegetarian.
Spinach
Cooked in mild sauce with garlic and onion pepper. Vegetarian.

Combinations
Yetebaberu
Yetebaberu, meat, and veggies combination.
Ethinic Combination
Combination of five entrees.
Yichalale
Meat and veggie combination, that includes, kits, and yegel tibs.

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Recent Reviews

I shared the vegetarian platter with two others. It was so delicious, beautifully presented and an excellent way to sample all of their vegetarian options.
I’ll definitely go back.
September 2025
Maybe my standards are just high moving here from California and having Ethiopian family that cooks, but it was very ok - not good, not bad. And for a family restaurant they were playing explicit music at a very high volume. Also very pricy for a singular person, paid $42 for an entree and small appetizer.
June 2025
Food was good. Service was not. The server was non chalant though she helped recommend what food to get. It was late at night so maybe she was tired. Bathroom area for washing my hands seemed unsanitary
June 2025

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Dilla Ethiopian restaurant

1813 Riverside Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55454
(612) 217-1909