Good tastes great, very friendly waitress. The most importantly, I didn't feel any MSG or other…read moreenhancers. This one is a keeper.

Excellent experience- the food is amazing as is the service. A very authentic decor which adds to…read morethe experience. We always do the sampler- plenty of food and tons of flavor. This is my go to every time I am in Frankfurt- really close to the convention center great stop after an event.

Small restaurant not too far from the city center/ Zeil area, I would recommend to make a…read morereservation as it seemed quiet busy. Nice atmosphere and decor, friendly staff and fast service. We ordered the vegetarian variety plate for 2, all dishes were flavorful but our personal favorite was the okra dish. The portion was big and could have easily feed a third person. Therefore next time we plan to order the sample plate for 1 and try an appetizer.

Very tasty food in fully relaxed atmosphere. we took 2…read morestarters and then for the 3 of us the combi-plate for 2, fully enough :-) I enjoyed very much eating with my hands but of course you don't have to. We definitely plan to come back

Make your reservation and come! Make sure everyone is cool with sharing food and eating with their…read morehands. (If not, you need to find new friends!) We had the mixed platter for 2. Two beef dishes, spinach & kale, cabbage & potatoes and lentils. The more people, the more dishes. Everything is served together with a delicious salad in the center. You scoop with pieces of buckwheat "pancakes" and Yum! The drinks are nice (African beer and Aperol), the waitstaff is lovely, there's a sink by the stairs to wash up, and the vibe is chill. Great music, great decor - even for sitting in the basement, which was quiet and intimate. I'd ask for this spot s ps: For dessert we ordered the Banana Cream dessert. It's kind of a whipped cream-thing. Nice ending. Coming back!

If you are interested in authentic African food in a beautiful and unique environment, Im Herzen…read moreAfrikas is the place for you! Before I even get to the food, I have to talk about the atmosphere as it is truly special and makes you feel the African vibes. Everything seems to be interestingly shaped and carefully curated to fit the theme. There is even a little treehouse sort of elevated seating area and a part of the restaurant with sand on the floor. You just have to take a look for yourself. As for the food, it is really authentic style where you eat everything with only your hands. The menu is sort of limited, where you pick a handful of items to be served on a single large plate and shared. We got 3 kinds of beef, chicken, lentils, and white cabbage. They all had a good flavor, and some were quite spicy. It was served with lots of bread on the side, which was flat, soft, yet somewhat fluffy. The way to eat this is by grabbing the food with the bread (kind of like making a little wrap). It's 18 EUR per person, which is a decent deal. I also got the non-alcoholic "momo is back" cocktail (9 EUR), which was a mix of lime juice, grenadine, peach juice, and guava juice. It was tasty and served in a nice cup with garnish on top. The staff are friendly and helpful. We were able to get a table for two with no wait on a weekday night, but I know it can be quite busy at peak times. Overall, I had a great and unique experience at Im Herzen Afrikas and highly recommend it to anyone interested in trying some African food in Frankfurt!

I have to start off by stating the good I found at Sebeta (and trust me, it does exist)!…read more The atmosphere of the place was really calming and quaint. It was impeccably clean and just smelled like a newer establishment. I normally eat at delicious places in Frankfurt that are located inside of dodgy buildings, so that in itself was a breath of fresh air. I found the tables and chairs here to be most comfortable and it was so nice to not give in to other Ethiopian 'sit on the floor' style arrangements that you find at other restaurants (I understand this may be how it is done culturally, but when sitting with friends for hours, it can become slightly uncomfortable). I also must commend the staff which was most helpful and altruistic. Granted, we were the only customers in the restaurant aside from two men in another corner, but nevertheless... they were very customer service focused and attentive. I really appreciated that. Ugh... now for the part I hate... I feel I would be disingenuous if I said the food here was good. I found it very subpar and truthfully, I couldn't even finish my plate. After paying 30 Euros for our food amongst two of us, I left very hungry. I eat Eritrean/Ethiopian food on a weekly or bi-weekly basis and am very fond of the stuff. I normally eat at African Queen down the street from Sebeta but was stoked to try this place with my fellow Yelp crew just to see how it measures up. The entire food experience here assured me to never stray far from the African Queen. First of all, the ordering style was a bit strange to me. At most restaurants in Frankfurt you can order a dish for two people and split and pay one reasonable price. Normally this is around 25 or 30 Euros... never much more. At Sebeta, the options aren't really there and you must pay 25 Euros... PER PERSON. Granted, this offers you an appetizer and dessert, but I still think this pricing is far too steep. Everything is ordered a la carte here and I ordered my own dish, which was the vegetarian platter, running me 11 Euros and some change. I think the greatness of Ethiopian cuisine is that it is a share cuisine and very intimate experience, so when I got my dish and it was served on an individual plate to myself, I was rather disappointed. My boyfriend and I like our dishes coming together so we can share... which is what you typically find at an Ethiopian/Eritrean restaurant. This one just comes on a white square plate. Okay, okay, back to my 'bayenetu'.... It consisted of injera of course, some stewed kale (which i guess was supposed to be their verson of gomen?), mesir wot, kik alicha, fasolia, a beetroot salad with potatoes (and maybe tomatoes or something I couldn't identify alongside it), and a typical side salad of marinated lettuce. The 'gomen' (or stewed kale in this case) was not too tasty. The taste was overly pungent and maybe kale wasn't the best substitute for this (the menu stated specifically that this was kale and it definitely tasted like it to me). I think the reason gomen is so good is that collards are a perfect accompaniment to the other flavors. Kale just didn't offer this same cohesion. A lightly stewed spinach may have... but even if this was spinach hiding beneath it all, it was still a strange and almost artificial flavor. The injera was delicious. The mesir wot (red lentils) was a mess. It lacked spice and flavor and all I could taste was tomato paste. Tomato paste should be a flavor enhancer and used to color, but shouldn't be tasted in this capacity. I tasted no berbere in it whatsoever. It was thick, dry, and clumpy and left me wishing they had given me shiro wat instead. The kik alicha was tasteless. The fasolia was bland and tasted like it came from a can. I am almost certain the green beans did, at least. The beetroot salad should have been a huge highlight for me as I could live the rest of my life off of beetroot and beetroot alone, but it was, too, disappointing. The beetroot didn't taste fresh and the potatoes were hardened and difficult to digest. The lettuce was alright though and I ate a few bites of that. The wait staff put some berbere and an awaze-like sauce on our table. The berbere lacked the punch and didn't taste fresh and robust like it should have. I didn't taste the awaze. Overall, I was very unsatisfied. The food also came out rather cold. I am really passionate about my Ethiopian/Eritrean fare and I think I will just have to stop exploring the Frankfurt scene and stick with what is best a few blocks down from Sebeta. I do want to commend the customer service for being so exceptional though! While I won't be back here, I had fun with my friends and overall enjoyed the evening!

Before I write anything I want to note how great the customer service was here- they were attentive…read moreand very welcoming. They even roasted the coffee beans for the Ethiopian coffee in front of everyone, which I'm sure was great tasting (I don't drink coffee personally). The restaurant itself was clean and decorated nicely and I like the fact that they haven't tried to do the cliché sit on the ground thing like many other east African restaurants. If this review was based on the restaurant and staff alone, I would give them a solid 5 stars, however, sadly for them, it's not. Time to talk about the food. Firstly, I want to note that I have tried a few east African places and regularly eat at an establishment up the street called the African Queen on a nearly weekly basis as the food there is amazing. However, the opportunity came with Yelp to visit a newer establishment and I was keen to try something different. I had seen Sebeta's food truck at the African culture fests that were in Rebstock park this year so I was keen to finally try their food. Sadly for them, at the festival there was too much competition and Gambian food is just too tasty to turn down. I ordered the Mixed platter with both meat and veggies (number 19 on the menu). The Presentation: So the best thing about Ethiopian food is its rustic nature and, in my opinion, it should be served in a rustic fashion. It's pointless trying to elevate your plating for a food I will be eating with my hands. The food here came on a square plate with neatly presented injera and small dollops of food on it. It was garnished with a well constructed salad and I instantly felt that this took something away from the rustic nature of this cuisine. The food was served on a cold plate with no cover as you normally get the food, leaving it mostly stone cold- although the coldness of the food could be due to how long it took to come out. Perhaps they were not used to dealing with such a large group and our food was sat on the pass for a bit too long. The Food: The food was bland and it lacked the punchy character of East African food. I tried it first without adding extra spice myself and it was bland... very bland. So I piled on the berbere, which didn't help much. I feel it was a bit old (the berbere) and had lost some of its flavour. The potatoes were undercooked and the green beans destroyed any flavour I tried to add to them with their dullness and lack of freshness. The beef was ok- probably the star of the plate. There was a ground meat, maybe a lamb dish, which was a grey mush on the plate and was essentially dull. On the positive side of the food, the injera was well-made. Although I finished my plate, out of hunger more than anything, I have to say that unless they significantly improve the food here, I would not go back as I know there are far better establishments in Frankfurt for East African food.

A hidden pearl in Mainz! This restaurant is a cool little place serving Ethiopian/Eritrean food for…read morepretty cheap (between 6 and 8 euros for a main entree). I had the mix of three sauces (kleine gemischte Teller), which allows you to get an overview of the food. The restaurant is full of little corners and nooks with comfy pillows. The food was really tasty, although not spicy at all, unlike all my previous experiences with east African cuisine. A great place to discover an underrated type of cuisine! Only 4 stars because my mango-guava juice had been seriously watered-down and was completely tasteless.

3.5 stars. I love…read moreEritrean/Ethiopian food, so when I heard that there is an Eritrean restaurant in HD, I had to tried. The ambience is nice. There were African decorations throughout the place and African-themed paintings on some walls, and the orange walls give the place a warm feel. Definitely suitable for groups of friends or for a date. Unfortunately, the service was very spotty. We often had to wait (to get menu, to order, to pay), and I notice the server (possibly owner?) was just taking care of bigger dining groups before coming to us. Then whenever we got his attention, it was short-lived, but on a slightly better note, he did apologize for the delay. We ordered a 4-dish vegetarian platter with mushrooms (Kantischa), spinach (Hamli Spinat), red lentils (Tumtumo Brsen), and potato curry (Alicha) as well as Kulwa Berai (sautéed beef with peppers and onions in a tomato-based sauce), both served with injera. The vegetarian platter was all good and tasty, but I was hoping for more flavors with the beef dish. I would probably go back on a less busy day.

Loved the ambience and the service. The servers were very friendly, telling us both how to eat the…read morefood, and let them know if the food was too spicy/too bland. They did forget one dish, but apologized profusely, and gave us the dish. The food was nice too (but that depends heavily on your taste). The dried pumpkin tumblers were a very nice touch!

das baobab ist ein wirklich schön eingerichtetes afrikanisches Restauran. Zudem ist das esse auch…read moresehr lecker. Es ist für jede und jeden was dabei also nur zu empfehlen. LG

I am a bit of a fanatic about Ethiopian food. That being the case, I am not sure that I could tell…read morethe difference between that and Eritrean food... I have been delightedly stuffing myself without knives and forks on the likes for years now. On one hand, I am happy that such a place exists in Darmstadt. The food itself was quite good. The portions, though, were somewhat small for my Western appetite. The place DOES offer, though, quite the Lion King ambience, complete with (somewhat loud) tribal-sounding music, very nature-preserve-looking benches and chairs, and decidedly ethnic-seeming waitresses. All in all, the experience is one worth noting, especially in the somewhat homogeneously milky Darm-a-tropolis. Make sure to make a reservation, though. Darmstadt is full of yuppies with little imagination and practically no thirst for real adventure. (I.e., Frankfurt is but a hop, skip, and a jump away, people.)

Fantastic food. Feels like family is serving you at their house. Variety for all. The combo…read moreplate gives you the best first look. Great place to bring your family.

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Tasty african food at a small bistro. I tried the lunch option for 5€ and was happy with what I…read moregot: three pancakes plus a variety of cooked lentils, ocra, spinach and some salad. It was tasty, a little bit spicy and enough to make me feel full. The place is rather small: Three tables that can sit two people each, a higher window side table where three people can sit plus a table outside that seats another two people. Apart from that, the place is made up in a nice way and I loved the decoration all over.

This sweet tiny cafe offers baked goods and a tasty inexpensive Eritrean / African Meal(s). I…read moreenjoyed it very much. Also had some nice vegetarian / vegan options. And all Coffee-drinks can be ordered with Soymilk - yay :)!