"The Ethiopian restaurant Blue Nile in River Oaks resembles a hall, filled with billowy white curtains and mesob sweetgrass baskets. It's the kind of low-key place where your hands can softly graze past each other’s while reaching for another piece of injera to scoop up the smoky, spicy yemissir wot lentils the onion-sweet kik alicha. The tender berbere-spiced lamb makes you wonder why you’d ever eat anywhere or anything else." - gianni greene, chelsea thomas