{"id":4591,"date":"2015-05-30T16:51:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T20:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=4591"},"modified":"2015-05-23T17:57:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T21:57:09","slug":"edmonton-ethiopian-vegan-buffet-at-abyssinia-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/edmonton-ethiopian-vegan-buffet-at-abyssinia-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton &#8211; Ethiopian Vegan Buffet at Abyssinia Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after arriving in Edmonton for a brief visit, hanging out at home and with my parents&#8217; cat Misha, my mom and I decided to head over to Abyssinia Restaurant, a\u00a0Ethiopian restaurant in East Central Edmonton, just a bit north of the downtown core.<\/p>\n<p>Abyssinia is an Ethiopian family restaurant in Edmonton that serves a variety of meat and vegan dishes everyday, and offers a totally vegan buffet twice a week on Wednesday &amp; Friday evenings between 5-9pm.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Abyssinia Restaurant - Edmonton by MeShell, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/16609957399\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/8\/7633\/16609957399_9795a25eb7_z.jpg\" alt=\"Abyssinia Restaurant - Edmonton\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t help but think if this place was in Toronto it would have been PACKED full, especially on vegan night. But instead there were a couple tables occupied, but otherwise, it was not so busy. Service was helpful and friendly, and they told us all about the food they had to offer.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Abyssinia Buffet - Edmonton by MeShell, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/16176097753\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8589\/16176097753_933a487f02_z.jpg\" alt=\"Abyssinia Buffet - Edmonton\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So many incredible dishes, like kei misir wot (spicy lentils), alicha misir (turmeric lentils), gomen (chopped spicy greens), tikel gomen (cabbage &amp; carrots), fosolia (green beans, carrots, and potato), kik wot, okra, sweet potato dishes, fresh green salads, and all the injera (made with corn, buckwheat, and teff flour) you could ever eat.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Injera - Abyssinia Restaurant Edmonton by MeShell, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/16796062685\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/8\/7643\/16796062685_53d2be4f27_z.jpg\" alt=\"Injera - Abyssinia Restaurant Edmonton\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I piled my plate full of everything, sampling a bit of this and that of whatever drew my eye. There is something especially so fantastic about Ethiopian food &#8211; the spices, the flavours. It&#8217;s warming and comforting, and while dishes are similar between restaurants and rooted in tradition, every chef has their own unique style. They make it their own, and I was\u00a0really delighted by what Abyssinia was making.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Abyssinia Restaurant Edmonton - Vegan Buffet by MeShell, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/16796038575\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8699\/16796038575_ec3e7c337b_z.jpg\" alt=\"Abyssinia Restaurant Edmonton - Vegan Buffet\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was good. My mom liked it. I liked it. And we just had an all around positive time at Abyssinia. If you&#8217;re in Edmonton, or visiting the city, I&#8217;d highly recommend paying them a visit. I want to go back with JC sometime.<\/p>\n<p>p.s. in case you&#8217;re wondering &#8211; if you call a day or two ahead they can make the injera gluten-free for you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abyssinia Restaurant<\/strong><br \/>\n\u200b10810 95 St.\u00a0Edmonton, AB<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abyssinianrestaurant.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Abyssinia-Restaurant-Bar\/148463865334959?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after arriving in Edmonton for a brief visit, hanging out at home and with my parents&#8217; cat Misha, my mom and I decided to head over to Abyssinia Restaurant, a\u00a0Ethiopian restaurant in East Central Edmonton, just a bit north of the downtown core. Abyssinia is an Ethiopian family restaurant&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,24,242],"tags":[1332,551],"class_list":["post-4591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edmonton","category-travelling","category-vegan","tag-abyssinia-restaurant","tag-edmonton-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}