A plate of Ethiopian food featuring injera bread, lentil stew, greens, and vegetable sides on a restaurant table with empty chairs in the background.
Doro Wot (Photo by Aakanksha Agarwal)

🍽️ Restaurant: Tana Ethiopian Cuisine
📍 Location: 5929 Baum Blvd., East Liberty
⏱️ Hours: 5-8 p.m. Tues-Sun | Closed Mon.
🌐 Links: tanaethiopiancuisine.com, Facebook, Instagram

❤️ Best $15ish meal(s): Vegetarian sampler and doro wot.

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Why go?

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Tana has been serving Ethiopian food in East Liberty since 2007, when owner Seifu Haileyesus, who came to Pittsburgh from Ethiopia for school, opened the restaurant on Baum Boulevard. The name comes from Lake Tana, Ethiopia’s largest lake and the main source of the Blue Nile.


Nearly two decades later, Tana remains a gathering place for Pittsburgh’s Ethiopian and Eritrean communities, as well as a good introduction to the cuisine for newcomers. Dishes are served with injera, the pleasantly tangy, spongy flatbread that doubles as plate and utensil: tear off a piece, scoop up some stew and repeat.

Two plates of Ethiopian injera topped with assorted stews and vegetables, rolls of injera, a samosa on a small plate, and a glass of water on a light tablecloth.
Vegetarian Sampler (Photo by Aakanksha Agarwal)

What to order 

The $15 vegetarian sampler, which includes four vegetarian dishes on injera. Depending on the day’s selection, that might mean spicy lentils, chickpea stew, slow-cooked greens or cabbage and carrots. It is colorful, filling and, for exactly $15, lets you try several corners of the menu in one meal.

The $15 doro wot is great for meat lovers: chicken simmered in a deep-red berbere-spiced stew with a hard-boiled egg.

Good to know before you go

Tana is dinner-only, opening from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. There are plenty of vegan options, and the vegetarian sampler gets you several different dishes instead of a single entrée.

Street-level view of the entrance to Tana Ethiopian Cuisine, a restaurant with a white facade and large windows, located on a city sidewalk.
(Photo courtesy of Aakanksha Agarwal)

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