Desta Ethiopian Kitchen Menu (Update 2025)
Welcome to Desta Ethiopian Kitchen, a culinary gem located at 2566 Briarcliff Rd Ste 101, Atlanta, GA. This vibrant eatery embraces the rich traditions of Ethiopian cuisine and invites diners to explore a menu filled with authentic flavors.
The offerings include a diverse array of traditional dishes, delightful desserts, and unique sandwiches, each crafted with care. Signature items like injera and doro wat stand out for their bold spices and comforting aromas, evoking the warmth of Ethiopian hospitality.
- Vegan options abound, catering to diverse dietary needs.
- With a classy yet casual atmosphere, it's perfect for lunch or dinner.
- The restaurant accommodates groups and families, ensuring a welcoming environment.
Desta Ethiopian Kitchen combines hearty meal choices with exceptional service, making it a must-visit for anyone seeking an authentic Ethiopian dining experience in Atlanta.
Breakfast
Foul
Crushed beans sauteed with our spices and garnished with fresh diced onions, tomatoes, and pepper. Finished with olive oil or butter. Served on wheat bread or pita. Loaded add feta cheese and a boiled egg or scrambled eggs for an extra 2.50.
Scrambled Eggs
Sauteed with onions, tomatoes, pepper and Ethiopian butter. Served with wheat bread or pita. Add a prime ribeye steak for just 6 more.
Chechebsa
Small pieces of flatbread braised with berbere and your choice of Ethiopian butter or olive oil.
Kinche
Cracked wheat cooked tender with Ethiopian butter and spices.
Breakfast Combo
Our most popular breakfast dish. Includes kinche, scrambled eggs, and chechebsa for 2 or more because sharing is caring. Served with wheat bread, pita, or injera. Add fir fir for just 5 more.
Fetira
Traditional Ethiopian breakfast consisting of flatbread layered with eggs and served with honey.
Brunch
If brunch were a party, this would be served! Comes with fir fir, kinche, Ethiopianstyled scrambled eggs, chechebsa, tibs, kitfo and ayib. Served with wheat bread, pita or injera. Serves 2 to 4.
Sambusa
Stuffed with your choice of either minced beef or lentils. These crispy treats are to die for!
Tomato Fitfit
Diced tomatoes, onions and jalapeno pepper mixed with pieces of injera. Served cold. This is a great dish to share!
GomenSiljo Dip
A blended dish of tofu and gomen seasoned with garlic, ginger, hot mustard and a touch of olive oil. Served with your choice of injera or pita bread.
Kitfo Wrap
Beef or Salmon Injera or tortilla flour wrap filled with our delicious kitfo. Served rare, mediumrare or medium well. Add ayib or peppers for 1.75
Kitfo Slice
Tortilla slice filled delicious kitfo, ayib and jalapeno peppers cooked how you like it
Salmon Starter Salad
A fresh to order side portioned salad topped with your choice of rare or cooked salmon and seasoned with Ethiopian spices.
Appetizers
Sandwiches
Lamb Sandwich
Served on white or wheat bread
Beef Sandwich
Served on white or wheat bread.
Chicken Sandwich
Served on white or wheat bread.
Tilapia Sandwich
Served on white or wheat bread.
Grouper Sandwich
Served on white or wheat bread.
Salmon Sandwich
Served on white or wheat bread.
Veggie Sandwich
Served on white or wheat bread.
Shrimp Sandwich
Served on white or wheat bread.
Kitfo Sandwich
Served on white or wheat bread.
Mushroom Sandwich
Served on white or wheat bread.
Pasta With Lamb
Served with your choice of white bread, wheat bread, pita bread, injera.
Pasta With Chicken
Served with your choice of white bread, wheat bread, pita bread, injera.
Pasta With Salmon
Served with your choice of white bread, wheat bread, pita bread, or injera.
Pasta With Mushroom
Served with your choice of white bread, wheat bread, pita bread, or injera.
Pasta With Kitfo
Served with your choice of white bread, wheat bread, pita bread, or injera.
Pasta With Veggie
Served with your choice of white bread, wheat bread, pita bread, or injera.
Pasta With Shrimp
Served with your choice of white bread, wheat bread, pita bread, or injera.
Pasta With Tilapia
Served with your choice of white bread, wheat bread, pita bread, or injera.
Pasta With Grouper
Served with your choice of white bread, wheat bread, pita bread, or injera.
Pasta
Vegan
Shiro Chickpea Stew
Ground chickpea simmered in a rich house sauce spiced with olive oil or butter.
Tomato Fit Fit
Diced tomatoes, onions, and jalapeno peppers mixed with pieces of injera. Served cold.
Ater Yellow Split Pea Stew
Yellow split peas stewed in a special sauce with onions, turmeric, and ginger.
Miser Spicy Split Red Lentil Stew
Lentils stewed in a rich berbere sauce with onions, garlic, and ginger.
Tikel Gomen Cabbage
Fresh cabbage sauteed with onions, garlic, ginger, carrots, and turmeric.
Dinech Wot Potato Stew
Potatoes simmered with berbere, onions, garlic and other spices.
Vegetarian Platter
Shiro, Miser, Ater, Dinech Wot, Gomen, Cabbage, Mushrooms, Salad, Azifa, Beets, Potato salad, and Tomato Fit Fit.
Mushroom Stew
Sauteed with onions, fresh garlic and fresh ginger.
Gomen
Fresh collard greens sauteed with onions, garlic turmeric.
House Salad
Served with your choice of bread.
Chicken Salad
Served with your choice of bread.
Tilapia Salad
Served with your choice of bread.
Grouper Salad
Served with your choice of bread.
Salmon Salad
Served with your choice of bread.
Shrimp Salad
Served with your choice of bread.
Beef Salad
Served with your choice of bread.
Lamb Salad
Served with your choice of bread.
Salads
Signature Entrees
Lamb Tibs
Comes with one starch your choice of injera, rice, wheat bread, white bread, pita bread, or teff injera. Entrees come with 3 injera rolls. Additional injera is 1.50 per roll. Also comes with one side your choice of salad, ater, gomen, c...
Ribeye Tibs
Comes with one starch your choice of injera, rice, wheat bread, white bread, pita bread, or teff injera. Entrees come with 3 injera rolls. Additional injera is 1.50 per roll. Also comes with one side your choice of salad, ater, gomen, c...
Filet Mignon Tibs
Comes with one starch your choice of injera, rice, wheat bread, white bread, pita bread, or teff injera. Entrees come with 3 injera rolls. Additional injera is 1.50 per roll. Also comes with one side your choice of salad, ater, gomen, c...
Chicken Tibs
Comes with one starch your choice of injera, rice, wheat bread, white bread, pita bread, or teff injera. Entrees come with 3 injera rolls. Additional injera is 1.50 per roll. Also comes with one side your choice of salad, ater, gomen, c...
Salmon Tibs
Comes with one starch your choice of injera, rice, wheat bread, white bread, pita bread, or teff injera. Entrees come with 3 injera rolls. Additional injera is 1.50 per roll. Also comes with one side your choice of salad, ater, gomen, c...
Tilapia Tibs
Comes with one starch your choice of injera, rice, wheat bread, white bread, pita bread, or teff injera. Entrees come with 3 injera rolls. Additional injera is 1.50 per roll. Also comes with one side your choice of salad, ater, gomen, c...
Grouper Tibs
Comes with one starch your choice of injera, rice, wheat bread, white bread, pita bread, or teff injera. Entrees come with 3 injera rolls. Additional injera is 1.50 per roll. Also comes with one side your choice of salad, ater, gomen, c...
Ground Beef Tibs
Comes with one starch your choice of injera, rice, wheat bread, white bread, pita bread, or teff injera. Entrees come with 3 injera rolls. Additional injera is 1.50 per roll. Also comes with one side your choice of salad, ater, gomen, c...
Shrimp Tibs
Comes with one starch your choice of injera, rice, wheat bread, white bread, pita bread, or teff injera. Entrees come with 3 injera rolls. Additional injera is 1.50 per roll. Also comes with one side your choice of salad, ater, gomen, c...
Mushroom Tibs
Comes with one starch your choice of injera, rice, wheat bread, white bread, pita bread, or teff injera. Entrees come with 3 injera rolls. Additional injera is 1.50 per roll. Also comes with one side your choice of salad, ater, gomen, c...
Biret Mitad Tibs Lamb
Sauteed cuts of meat at extrahigh heat served well done with your choice of side.
Biret Mitad Tibs Ribeye
Sauteed cuts of meat cooked at extra high heat, served well done with your choice of a side.
Biret Mitad Tibs Filet Mignon
Sauteed cuts of meat cooked at extra high heat, served well done with your choice of a side.
Goden Tibs
Sizzling prime short ribs marinated with Desta sauce, onion, tomato, fresh garlic and jalapeno.
Meat Lovers Tibs
MEAT LOVERS BE WARNED! Once you start, you wont stop. Choose any 3 different meats to fill your plate and your stomach. Feeds 2 or more! Pick 2 breads and 3 sides. Dinein only.
Kitfo Steak Tartare
Ethiopianstyled steak tartare, freshly minced extralean beef seasoned with mitmita and Ethiopian spiced butter. How Daring Are You? Playing It Safe served well done. Sorta Brave served mediumwell. Very Brave served mediumrare. Da...
Salmon Kitfo
Ethiopianstyled salmon tartare, freshly minced and seasoned with mitmita and Ethiopian spiced butter.
Fish Dulet Tilapia
Finely minced tilapia with tomato and onions. Add Shiro for 2.49 extra.
Fish Dulet Grouper
Finely minced grouper with tomato and onions. Add Shiro for 2.49 extra.
Works Fir Fir
Firfir served with kitfo, kinche and ayib.
Shiro Fir Fir
Chickpeas stewed in a special sauce with onions, garlic and ginger. Served with choice of olive oil or Ethiopian butter.
Gored Gored
Lean beef cubes mixed with mitmita, awaze, and peppers. Rare or medium rare.
Salmon Gored Gored
Rare or medium rare salmon cubes mixed with mitmita and peppers.
Bozena Shiro
Chickpea stew with your choice of ground beef, cubed steak, or lamb with butter or olive oil.
The Original MeatLovers
Served with kitfo, gored gored and biret mitad tibs.
Potato Stew
Cooked with your choice of ground beef, cubed steak, or lamb with butter or olive oil.
Lamb Fir Fir
This mouthwatering dish contains bits of injera soaked in spiced berbere cayenne pepper sauce with your choice of succulent meat or seafood. Enjoy it with Kinche or Ayib on top for 1.50 each!
Beef Fir Fir
This mouthwatering dish contains bits of injera soaked in spiced berbere cayenne pepper sauce with your choice of succulent meat or seafood. Enjoy it with Kinche or Ayib on top for 1.50 each!
Chicken Fir Fir
This mouthwatering dish contains bits of injera soaked in spiced berbere cayenne pepper sauce with your choice of succulent meat or seafood. Enjoy it with Kinche or Ayib on top for 1.50 each!
Tilapia Fir Fir
This mouthwatering dish contains bits of injera soaked in spiced berbere cayenne pepper sauce with your choice of succulent meat or seafood. Enjoy it with Kinche or Ayib on top for 1.50 each!
Grouper Fir Fir
This mouthwatering dish contains bits of injera soaked in spiced berbere cayenne pepper sauce with your choice of succulent meat or seafood. Enjoy it with Kinche or Ayib on top for 1.50 each!
Salmon Fir Fir
This mouthwatering dish contains bits of injera soaked in spiced berbere cayenne pepper sauce with your choice of succulent meat or seafood. Enjoy it with Kinche or Ayib on top for 1.50 each!
Vegetarian Fir Fir
This mouthwatering dish contains bits of injera soaked in spiced berbere cayenne pepper sauce. Enjoy it with Kinche or Ayib on top for 1.50 each!
Ground Beef Fir Fir
This mouthwatering dish contains bits of injera soaked in spiced berbere cayenne pepper sauce with your choice of succulent meat or seafood. Enjoy it with Kinche or Ayib on top for 1.50 each!
Shrimp Fir Fir
This mouthwatering dish contains bits of injera soaked in spiced berbere cayenne pepper sauce with your choice of succulent meat or seafood. Enjoy it with Kinche or Ayib on top for 1.50 each!
Mushroom Fir Fir
This mouthwatering dish contains bits of injera soaked in spiced berbere cayenne pepper sauce with your choice of succulent meat or seafood. Enjoy it with Kinche or Ayib on top for 1.50 each!
Specialties
Dessert
Tiramisu
Dulce De Leche Cheesecake
Mini Red Velvet Cake
Napoleon
Limoncello Mascarpone Cake
Cheesecake Alle Fragole
Mini Mixed Berry Cake
Baklava
Coke
Diet Coke
Sprite
Dr. Pepper
Orange Crush
Ginger Ale
Bottled Water
Club Soda
Pellegrino or Perrier
Iced Tea
Iced Latte
Mango Juice
Orange Juice
Fruit Punch
Pineapple Juice
Cranberry Juice
Cold Beverages
Hot Beverages
Coffee
Espresso
Macchiato
Cafe Latte
Tea
Ethiopian spiced hot tea
Green Tea
Amstel Light
Becks
Becks Dark
Guinness Extra Stout
Bud Light
Corona
Guinness
Stella Artois
Heineken
Newcastle
Red Stripe
Yuengling
Meta Ethiopian Beer
Check availability.
St. George Bedele Ethiopian Beer
Check availability.
Harar Ethiopian Beer
Check availability.
Walia Ethiopian Beer
Check availability.
Castel Ethiopian Beer
Check availability.
Beer
Ethiopian Wine
Carrolls Mead
Sweet honey wine
Sheba Tej
Honey wine
McManis Pinot Noir
Pinot Noir, California
McManis Merlot
Merlot, California
McManis Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet sauvignon, California
Punto Final Malbec
Malbec, Argentina
Robertson Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet sauvignon, South Africa
Tourano Shiraz
Shiraz, Australia
Robert Mondavi Merlot
Merlot, California
Meiomi Pinot Noir
Pinot noir, California
Oxford Landing Cabernet Sauvignon House
Cabernet sauvignon, South Australia house
Red Wine
White Wine
Zenato Pinot Grigio
Pinot grigio, Italy
McManis Chardonnay
Chardonnay, California
Fire Road Sauvignon Blanc
Sauvignon blanc, New Zealand
Brotherhood Riesling
Riesling, New York
Robert Mondavi Chardonnay
Chardonnay, California
Brownstone Pinot Grigio House
Pinot grigio, California house
Robertson Sweet Red
Sweet red, South Africa
Stella Moscato
Moscato, Italy
Riondo Prosecco
Prosecco, Italy
Brick Mortar Can Blanc
Green apple, grapefruit, passionfruit
Brick Mortar Can Bubbles
Honeysuckle lemon meringue pear
Amble Chase Can Rose
Strawberries, violets grapefruit
Brick Mortar Can Red
Plum, boysenberry. blackberry
Stella Pinot Grigio Can
Citrus notes, lemon, lime orange
Zardetto Prosecco
Orange blossom, peach, tangerine
Mondavi Cabernet Sauvignon
Blackberry, coffee chocolate
Mondavi Chardonnay
Ripe melon, apple, baked bread
Cycles Gladiator Pinot Noir Can
Plum, vanilla cola notes
Sweet Wine Prosecco
Spirits
Vodka
Ciroc Ciroc Coconut Grey Goose Ketel 1 Van Gogh Cool Peach Van Gogh Double Espresso Belvedere Absolut Smirnoff Gordon
Gin
Tanqueray Gordons Bombay
Rum
Bacardi Superior Bacardi Gold Malibu
Tequila
1800 Silver 1800 Gold Patron 9shot or 13glass
Cognac
Hennessy Remy Martin 9shot or 13glass Courvoisier 9shot or 13glass
Whiskey
Glen Livet 9shot or 13glass Johnny Walker Black Johnny Walker Red Jim Beam Jack Daniels Crown Royal Dewars White Label Southern Comfort Chivas Makers Mark