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Ethiopian restaurant · Sunnyside ·
Ethiopian & Eritrean food truck with flavorful tibs & sour injera
Ethiopian & Eritrean food truck with flavorful tibs & sour injera
"The popular Queens Ethiopian Eritrean food truck finally opened its restaurant this month. The new space is warm and inviting, featuring Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Italian influences in its meticulously designed space as well as food. If you’re a fan of injera and its traditional pillowiness, not to worry — it’s served with many of the dishes. With the injera bruschetta ($12), however, an unexpected preparation gives it a new and satisfying crispiness, and makes it a phenomenal vehicle for the sweet, acidic, and salty tomato mixture. I can still hear the crunch." - Bettina Makalintal
"At long last, Eden Gebre Egziabher opens the restaurant version of her popular Ethiopian Eritrean food truck in Queens, serving signature rich meats like berbere spiced beefy siga wot and chicken tibs atop springy injera or filling yellow rice, with plans to expand into dinner and cocktails." - Melissa McCart
"Makina Cafe, one of our favorite food trucks in the city, will be parked on Governor's Island this weekend from 11am-6pm (which recently reopened for the season and has a ton of arts programming and stuff to do). Makina serves Habesha food, which implies both Eritrean and Ethiopian cuisine, and makes incredible beef tibs and heavily fermented injera. Follow along their Instagram account for more pop-ups (they were at woman-run Talea brewery right by McCarren Park in Williamsburg last Friday, for example)." - hannah albertine
"Whether you’re in Brooklyn, Queens, or Manhattan, take comfort in knowing that you can get to a Makina truck without having to cross a river. All three trucks serve Habesha food, which implies both Eritrean and Ethiopian cuisine. No matter which protein you choose for lunch (we like the beef tibs or the vegetable combo option), get the injera as your base. Makina’s injera is heavily fermented, sour, and you’re inevitably going to want more of it to sop up your gomen and miser. The original truck is parked at Fort Greene Park Monday through Saturday from 11am to 9pm, but you can also find Makina trucks outside of Rockefeller Center in Midtown and on 30th Street in LIC." - hannah albertine
"Makina Cafe founder Eden G. Egziabher is the first Eritrean-American female entrepreneur in NYC with a food truck serving Habesha food, distinguishing the different tribes of Eritrea and Ethiopia while celebrating the unity of people of the same region. “They got some really good, substantial, vegan food options,” says Harney. “Savory, filling, all the stuff that I’m looking for. Get the tikel goman and the mushroom bits with makina sauce. I love it.” Makina has a truck serving Brooklyn and a pick-up kitchen in Queens." - carla thomas
