Our first stop in our American trip was in New York, where I spent about five days at, from June 25th-29th. During this time, we had decided to try out some Ethiopian food, which surprisingly is quite popular in New York. The restaurant's name is Awash and is a quite popular Ethiopian restaurant in New York. It is located in Manhattan, at the heart of New York City. Awash has locations both uptown and downtown, as well as one in Brooklyn.
The restaurant has a nice, rustic interior, with warmly lit orange lighting giving a very cosy and pleasant dining experience.
Awash All-Meat Combo Platter
At Awash, we didn't want to try individual dishes as we thought it would be better to have two or three big platters to have a taste of everything.
The Awash All-Meat Combo Platter (USD24.95) consisted of small portions of different meats and vegetables with curries, on top of Injera, a fermented Ethiopian bread. The layout and concept is very similar to a South Indian appam and curry, with the Injera bread being almost similar to an appam or dosa. It was pretty surprising to see how similar certain cuisines can be!
This combo consisted of three meats, three vegetables and three dals. The meats were Tibs Wat, Doro Wat and Yebeg Alicha, which are classic Ethiopian preparations of a beef stew, chicken stew and a lamb stew respectively. Although all three meats were good, my personal favourite was the Tibs Wat, or the beef stew (center of the plate) simply because of how soft and tender the beef cubes were, and the wonderful heat that was brought out by it. The Yebeg Alicha, or the lamb stew was also fantastic as the lamb was also tender however, along with the Doro Wat, or the chicken stew was rather bland.
The dals were made out of both red and yellow lentils, with both being a wonderful side to the meat, as they blended the flavours of the meat wonderfully.Also, the dals at Awash had a very similar taste and preparation to the dals we make back home in India. However, I was not too pleased with the vegetables as I felt they were too bland and watery for my liking.
Another very interesting aspect of this platter was the bread, the Injera. This bread had an extremely similar taste to an appam and was very fluffy and moist. However, the Injera in my opinion was too sour for my liking due to its fermentation and I felt that this bread sometimes overpowered the flavours of the curries in the platter. Although, after a while when all the curries soaked into the bread, the sourness of it seemed more bearable.
Overall Rating- 8/10
I thoroughly enjoyed having a taste of Ethiopian Food, in a place I'd have never imagined to try it! The food was fantastic and hopefully I get another chance to try Ethiopian food. I would certainly recommend Awash for people who haven't tried Ethiopian food before.
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Awash (Uptown NYC)
947 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY
10025
Tel: 1-212-961-1416
Opening Hours: 12 pm- 11 pm
Daily
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