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Messi's Cafe & Lounge

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1445 Oxford Road North East
Atlanta, GA 30307
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Stews (Wat)

Dinich Wat

$10.00
Potatoes simmered with tomatoes, onions, peppers and traditional Ethiopian spices

Siga Bedinich Wat

$12.00
Beef or lamb slow-cooked with vegetables and traditional Ethiopian spices

Shiro

$9.00
Chickpea puree cooked with Ethiopian butter (kibe) and spices

Doro Wat

$15.00
Weekends and Holy Days only, The National Dish of Ethiopia, doro wat is a spicy chicken stew that takes literally an entire day to prepare when done right. Well, the cooks at Messi's do it right and the results are truly something special

Veggies

A la carte $6

Gomen

Fragrant collard greens cooked in Ethiopian spiced butter

Tikel Gomen

Cabbage, carrots, and potatoes cooked in a mild sauce

Misir

Spicy red lentils

Ater Kik

Yellow split peas in a very mild sauce

Timatim Fitfit

Tomatoes, onions, and chilis marinated in lemon juice and mixed with pieces of injera. Served chilled

Meats (Tibs)

Awaze Tibs

Beef or lamb simmered in spicy Ethiopian sauce
  • Beef $12.00
  • Lamb $14.00

Lega Tibs

Beef or lamb cooked in a mild sauce with tomatoes, onions, peppers, and Ethiopian butter and spices
  • Beef $12.00
  • Lamb $14.00

Zilzil Tibs

$12.00
"Scissor cut" strips of beef pan seared with chilis and onions

Goden Tibs

$14.00
Beef short ribs with onions, tomatoes, and peppers

Chikina Tibs

$6.00
Beef tenderloin

Combos

Veggie Combo

$14.00

Tibs Combo

choose 3
  • Serves 2 $28.00

Meat - n - 3

choose 1 Tibs and 3 Veggies
  • Serves 2 $24.00

Desserts

Desserts

The Ethiopian diet doesn't traditionally include what Westerners would consider "dessert." However, we know many Americans love something sweet after a meal so we try to keep a variety of items available

Beverages

Messi's serves a variety of Coka-Cola Products and specialty sodas as well as bottled water, ice tea, and coffee

Shai

$2.00
Ethiopian spiced hot tea

Beer and Wine

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1445 Oxford Road North East
Atlanta, GA 30307
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470-343-2572
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Meals
Lunch
Dinner

About Us

Meal time in Ethiopia is a social event where friends and family come together around heaping platters of fresh foods bursting with mouth-watering flavor and aroma. Conversation and laughter fill the room. Diners share in one anothers' lives as they share a meal. The sense of community is heightened by "family style" sevice on large platters placed in the center of the table rather than individual plates. Look closely and you will witness gursha (literally translated "mouthful"), an Ethiopian tradition where one person takes a morsel of food - often a very large one - wrapped in injera and places it into the mouth of someone else at the table. Then, the person honored with gursha returns the favor. It can be quite a shock to foreigners the first time an Ethiopian honors them this way! But it is a beautiful tradition that takes the intimacy of the shared meal to another level.