Mesob

Mesob
104 14th Street Parking Garage
N.W. Suite #8
Charlottesville, VA
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It’s hard to find good Ethiopian food in Central Virginia so Mesob is a blessing to those who love this terrific cuisine. Mesob boasts a nice lunch buffet on weekdays and features a variety of tasty dishes. The injera is very good – soft and spongy, absorbing all the flavors of your meal. (And in recent visits, the injeras has been even better than usual. I really enjoy it when it is a bit sticky and soft.)

I always love the cabbage dish although I am not sure what it is called. I’m also not sure what they do with it but it has a great flavor, slightly sweet and delicious flavor that soaks right into the thoroughly cooked vegetable.

Other buffet items have included Alicha Doro Wet, which, according to their menu, consists of chicken drum sticks and hard boiled eggs in a wonderful broth of “spiced and purified butter, garlic, tomato, turmeric, and onion.” I’m pretty sure that I’ve also had the Minchet Abish-Alicha Wet, which is a dish of minced meat “stweed in spiced and purified butter, onion ,turmeric, tomato paste, and garlic.”

For vegetarian lovers, I don’t think can go wrong with the cabbage but there is also the Gomen, which is a dish of chopped “and boiled collard greens cooked with olive oil, onion, ginger, garlic, and jalapeno.”

All in all, this is a terrific place with friendly service and excellent food.

(Images by AG)