The Best Restaurants In San Jose

"Most San Joseans will tell you that Zeni has the best Ethiopian food in town. Yes, Zeni is fantastic, but Walia—a restaurant in a nondescript shopping center in West San Jose—has a wider-ranging menu of both classic and less-common dishes that are uniformly delicious. Dig into food loaded with flavor and spice in the dining room with floor-to-ceiling drapes and portraits of legendary Ethiopians. Try the ingudai tibs, a mushroomy take on a meaty standard, or the kitfo tartare served over ayib, a zippy Ethiopian cottage cheese that we’ve rarely found elsewhere." - shoshi parks