Enat Ethiopian - Optimist Hall

1115 N Brevard St Enat Ethiopian, Charlotte
(980) 938-4636

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Passport Plate Feeds 2 People
Meat Platter Feeds 3 People
Miser Red Split Lentil Stew
Ater Yellow Split Peas Stew
Shiro Chickpeas Stew
Derek-Style TIBS
Vegan Platter
Classic TIBS
Awaze TIBS
Derek TIBS

Menu

Starter
Sambusa
Three crispy triangular treats/ snacks filled with your choice of beef, chicken, or lentils (vegan) try one of each.

Family Style
Meat Platter
Beef, chicken, and lamb with 3 sides of veggies and a starch.
Passport Plate
Our vegan platter with your choice of one tibs (lamb, beef, chicken, fish, or mushroom) with one extra side.

Entrees
Spicy & Juicy (Awaze Tibs)
Your choice of protein, cooked with our signature special awaze spice sauce. Comes with two sides and a scratch of your choice.
Crispy & Charred (Derek-Style Tibs)
Your choice of protein, cooked with additional high heat to make it crispy. Served with fresh diced onions, tomatoes, garlic, and jalapenos peppers. Comes with two sides and a starch of your choice.
Soft & Tender (Classic Tibs)
Your choice of protein, diced into cubed shape and cooked with fresh tomatoes, onions, butter, jalapenos pepper, and garlic. Served with two sides and a starch of your choice.

Other Entrees
Vegan Platter
Includes 5 vegan items: Miser, Gomen, Fosolia, Tikel Gomen, and Ater. Served with injera.
Sandwiches
Your choice of protein diced into cubes with tomatoes, onions, jalapeno peppers with side salad on wheat or white hoagie bread.

Large Vegan Entrees
Shiro
Ground chickpeas slow cooked into a creamy stew. Large-sized Vegan items served with Injera (Ethiopian Spongy Bread)
Gomen
beef short ribs Large-sized Vegan items served with Injera (Ethiopian Spongy Bread)
House Salad
Large-sized Vegan items served with Injera (Ethiopian Spongy Bread)
Ater
mild yellow split peas prepared with onions, garlic and a touch of special spices Large-sized Vegan items served with Injera (Ethiopian Spongy Bread)
Fosolia
string beans and carrots sautéed in vegetable oil with garlic, caramelized onions, and Enat's spices. Large-sized Vegan items served with Injera (Ethiopian Spongy Bread)
Miser
red split lentil stew cooked in a spicy berbere sauce, onions and garlic Large-sized Vegan items served with Injera (Ethiopian Spongy Bread)
Tikel Gomen
cabbage and carrots cooked with onions and garlic Large-sized Vegan items served with Injera (Ethiopian Spongy Bread)

Extra Sides
Shiro
ground chickpeas slow cooked into a creamy stew
Gomen
beef short ribs
Ater
mild yellow split peas prepared with onions, garlic and a touch of special spices
Tikel Gomen
cabbage and carrots cooked with onions and garlic
Miser
red split lentil stew cooked in a spicy berbere sauce, onions and garlic
Fosolia
string beans and carrots sautéed in vegetable oil with garlic, caramelized onions, and Enat's spices

Extra Starch
Injera (Ethiopian Spongy Bread)
Brown Rice
Teff Injera (Gluten-Free)
Pita

Drinks
Fiji
bottle water
Aquafina
bottle water
Bottle Coke
Bottle Sprite
Bottle Fanta
Can coke zero
Can sprite
Can Ginger ale
Can Fanta Orange
Can Diet Coke
Bottle Guava juice
Bottle Strawberry Lemonade
Half and Half Ice tea
Sweet Ice tea

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Recent Reviews

This was my first Ethiopian food experience and I was happy with the quality of the food but unsure how to properly enjoy all the flavors on my plate. Overall the flavor was unique and enjoyable but I wasn’t a fan of toughness of the Goden Derek Tibs (short rib). I was expecting the meat to have a hard exterior with a melt in your mouth interior. The rest of the plate had a ton of flavor and I really enjoyed the cabbage and red lentil sides. I was unprepared for the sponge bread...
October 2024
This place is becoming a problem for me.

The food is so good I end up forgetting there are other places to go to at Optimist.

Get the Tibs platters. Skip the sandwiches. And muscle up to some Injera and eat it right.
October 2024
I went two times in the last week. The first time everything was spot on perfect. The second time today the injera tasted like it was tainted with bleach. I told the lady behind the register and she brought me a fresh one out wrapped in aluminum foil. When I unwrapped it it was also wrapped again with some white bleachy paper that smelled like bleach. So I didn't have any injera with my vegan platter. Hopefully they can find something better to wrap it and that isn't...
September 2024

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Enat Ethiopian - Optimist Hall

1115 N Brevard St Enat Ethiopian, Charlotte, NC 28206
(980) 938-4636