Enat Restaurant — Restaurant in Ontario

Comfort food, spice and heartiness. Casual comfy atmosphere a great place to lounge about, discussing and debating and sharing a communal platter of unctuous, well prepared finger foods. The Ethiopian pancakes are very similar to a slightly thickened French crêpe. Moist and delicious with great mouth feel. Tear off a hunk and pinch-scoop up a variety of delightful thickened stewed dishes served upon a giant platter. Too much food for two hungry people to finish the meal for two was generous and flavour rich. Beware that stewed chicken! It delivers a marvelous spicy kick to your taste buds and the lentils make a great foil for its tasty heat. Falling off the bone tenderness and not overdone. The hot cinnamon tea was a delight. We dined off peak hours 2:30-4ish. We tipped heavily as the value was excellent and service friendly and genuine. They need to raise their menu prices! You won't read any other review I've written with that remark in it. I'd like to see ENAT survive the economy and rising food costs. It's a delightful, casual, family and friendly dining experience. Decor is just comfortable without being fussy or superfluous. You're paying for the good and service, not some unnecessary rediculous wallpapers or mood lighting. You're there to eat, talk, laugh, love and be merry. This is the antithesis to showing off for showing off's sake. This in genuine good, genuine comfort, genuine people. Unfortunately not wheelchair accessible as it's an early cold war era storefront shop. With a generous tip we dined and lounged around for nearly two hours in comfortable, tidy, welcoming, surroundings enjoying delightful comfort foods for two and spent $70, gratuity included. I think the bill came to $42. They really need to increase their prices to survive this economy and food costs. You won't find another of my reviews with this remark. I do hope ENAT thrives as this restaurant is what London needs more of. Diversity, welcoming, family business, the antithesis of fast food. Plant this into a trendy location with trendy decor and good for traffic and this restaurant would fit into the Toronto foodie experience nicely. Lacking all that pomp and artifice this is a genuine good food experience in a comfortable uncomplicated entrepreneurial atmos. I'll be wearing here again and bringing friends. This IS a great place to hang out in groups and...

I love Ethiopian food. First off let me say this is my favourite type of place -- a "hole in the wall" , small, unpretentious, basic, absolutely nothing fancy about it, plastered walls with ancient wainscoting, and travel posters of Ethiopia on the wall. The best places I have eaten at are like this. And Enat will feed you more than you can reasonably handle -- no small portions that I saw. My wife and I tried the Enat platter with a side order of Shiro Wot, and I will say I was -- a little disappointed. The food was by no means bad -- the kale and cabbage based dishes were done perfectly in fact. The Shiro Wot was good if a bit oily, the Doro Wot was very good. But what troubled me were two things -- the spices being used for the dishes were not the ones I am familiar with for the same dishes, and it shames me that I don't know what they are, but it wasn't the same. But that just made it different, not really disappointing, but not what I had been looking forward to. On the plus side the chef isn't afraid to add a bit of heat to the dishes and I liked that. The disappointment was the injera, the pancake like flatbread that serves both as food and utensil. And even then, the appearance and texture were fine. But what was missing was the taste. Injera is made with a grain called teff, and when made into a batter it is left to ferment for a few days so it develops a tangy flavour when cooked, almost citrusy. This taste works with all the other spices and seasonings and gives the overall meal its balance. And the injera I had, while moist and light like it should be, lacked that tang, and was more like a crepe or a dosa wrap. And I really, really missed that. Now, that all said, the meal was still quite good, the portion huge, the service friendly, and it was overall a good value. Ethiopian restos are few and far between in this country in my opinion so I'm always happy to find one, even if it was different from expectations. I'll give it another...

Awesome, awesome food and amazing value. If you've never eaten here before, try the platter, or the vegetarian platter if you don't eat meat. It is maybe $15, and the portion is massive, it is easily over a kilo of food. More than enough for a big eater like me or two light eaters. The platter comes with a beef stew, a chicken and egg stew, a delicious cabbage and carrot dish, collard greens, mild lentils and spicy lentils, all wrapped in amazing slightly sour, slightly spongy injera (Ethiopian bread).The salad is also fresh and delicious. For the people that care about such things, they have lots of vegan and vegetarian options, and the bread is made from teff, so it is naturally gluten-free Anyway, keep it up guys, you make the best East African food...