Messob Ethiopian Restaurant

Experience Gourmet Ethiopian Dining! Messob is the latest addition to the Bay Area's repertoire of top-quality cultural dining venues. Elegantly poised in the heart of Piedmont, Messob boasts a stylish design and outdoor service. Messob's special appeal is that it adeptly blends "the traditional" with "the contemporary" in both its ambience as well as presentation. At Messob, dining is not just an exotic culinary experience but a full cultural emersion. We invite you to enjoy our selection of authentic Ethiopian dishes and experience priceless traditions of Ethiopian cuisine, where eating with your fingers is the norm. The word Messob is a traditional Ethiopian table made out of woven straw. It has an hour glass shape and is circular as people sit around it to eat communally the traditional Ethiopian way. In Ethiopia every meal is an opportunity to get together and celebrate life. The same is true of Messob, family owned Ethiopian Restaurant located in the heart of Piedmont. Ethiopian dishes at Messob are prepared with a distinctive variety of unique spices for an unforgettably striking dimension to exotic cookery. Our menu consists Ethiopian dishes featuring lamb, poultry, beef and vegetarian (100% vegan). The combinations allow your party to try different dishes at once. Our friendly wait staff will gladly help you navigate the menu to make your selections. Each entree comes with injera , a flat crepe-like bread, which has a tangy, slightly sour taste. It is used as utensil to scoop up sauces to create a fusion of contrasts. The flavor of lamb, chicken, or split peas, the richness of butter, the sweet complexity of spices, the kick of peppers, are all brought together by the injera.