Muya Restaurant — Restaurant in Kitchener

Outside was cold, miserable February, bland strip mall, salt and ice... inside was a crazy little African holiday without leaving Kitchener. Fresh roasting, smokey coffee, whisps of incense, spices cooking. And that was just the scent as we walked to our table. Little hints of decor are scattered around, but nothing cluttered. The ceiling lights have coloured folk art panels placed over top, kind of a funky take on stained glass. We ordered the Muya Ultimate Combo (for 2-3 people) which is a selection of vegetarian and meat dishes served atop a plater of injera bread (amazing stuff, almost like a crepe meets a crumpet meets sour-dough). We also ordered a pot of that darn freshly roasted coffee we kept smelling. No word of a lie, the best coffee I have ever had (strong, black, little wee cups that will literally blow you out of the water). I felt refreshed when I left. It was one of the nicest dining experiences I have had in a long time. Would go back...

I've recently have become a fan of Injera, so when I saw that there was a new place that serves it near by I had to go and try it. The place was small, but nice a quaint. It had some Ethiopian art hanging around which was a nice touch. Ordered the veggie combo dish where you order 5 different veggie sides with the injera as well as doro wot. The doro wot was pretty good and not as spicy as I thought it would be (other places make it quite spicy) the veggie sides ranged from good to meh, but on average was pretty good. The server and the cook kept checking on us and asking us how every thing was as well as bringing more injera whenever we started to run low. They even brought us Shiro wot which you would have to order separately for us to try, and it was amazing! overall if you want to try something new and adventurous Muya is...

I just tried takeout from this place today, and it's my first experience with Ethiopian cuisine. I got the vegetarian combo platter. It came with three different lentil dishes (Red, Green, Yellow all in different spices) as well as some Spinach and veggies.

It also came a very generous portion of Tejera. I really enjoyed eating this food, the bread has a nice sour flavour which reminds me of Sourdough but its not obviously the same taste. I love the spongy texture. The lentils themselves were very tasty. It also did not seem overly salty which is nice and I am not super thirsty which is nice.

I took a star off as the price was a bit high for the amount of food you get. The actual lentil portions were small. I will however be going back as I enjoyed the food and am curious what some of the other dishes...