Meskie's Ethiopia Restaurant — Restaurant in Berkeley

PROS: Walking in, it appears empty but if you cont. you'll see there's an outside nicely decorated with a cute social media backdrop. I think I even spotted a golf⛳️ putting 🏌🏽‍♀️ area. The food was flavorful and Soul satisfying 😋 My husband and I shared the Family Style Meat Combination 🍽 Our waitress brought the fur babies and us water...

CONS: I don't understand there were only three tables in the entire restaurant so why didn't we get exceptional service?🤷🏾‍♀️

OUR WAITRESS TOOK US TO OUR TABLE THEN🚶🏽‍♀️walked back to the cashier desk like she was a front desk receptionist...🤫🤨😒...as in NO SERVICE like our waitress was MIA during the ENTIRE Dining experience 😮‍💨

This is my 52nd Dinner choice & 🙄boy...I wish I had chosen a different restaurant 😫

My Handsome husband had to get up like5️⃣times!?!

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He had to get up to ask for drinks/napkins/hot sauce/remind her to turn on heater... etcetera.

She never checked on us Not Once/ didn't offer dessert...& although she said she would take our pictures after we finished eating, I know she knew damn well they don't have lights for the evening🤦🏾‍♀️📸pics.

THERE WAS NO TV/MUSIC so during our chewing and swallowing, we were forced to hear the other 2 tables convos.

Well find better...🙏🏾at least we ate good...

Get the groupon for here! It is an extremely good deal. You get about $90 worth of stuff for $40. Two appetizers, four entrees, two desserts and four glasses of wine (no honey wine or substitutes for other drinks). This is perfect for four people. I usually get the meat and vegetable combination plates along with two additional items depending on what people are interested in trying. Definitely eat it all family style and have a little bit of everything. My personal favorite is the veggie dish that has carrots in it (cannot remember the specific name). I also recommend the sambusas for the appetizers. This isn't the best Ethiopian restaurant out there, but the food is good and with the groupon the price isn't bad. I would most likely rate this 3 stars without the Groupon price, also every single time I've checked this deal is on there so it doesn't seem to be a limited time thing. I've gone back several times and have always been able to use the Groupon...

I went on a Sunday afternoon with my daughter after walking the telegraph strip. It doesn't stand out from the street view but the inside is very nice. We were promptly seated and tended to. We sat outside in a patio area that looked recently remodeled and landscaped, super nice.

I ordered the spicy meat combo and my daughter got the alicha. To drink I got telba juice (a healthy drink make with flax seeds) and my daughter got mango juice.

The telba was almost intoxicatingly healthy and my daughters mango juice was legit and thick, not like the runny mango nectar in a can.

Our food came in about 10-15min and was absolutely delicious. Now, the meat combo is spicy so keep that in mind. I love spicy food so this was perfect for me. The flavors were rich and our plates (surface wise) were full so the portions left us with food to take home and serve as another meal.

Our waitress was super nice, polite and attentive. I'm sure to...