Fasika Ethiopian Restaurant is located in central Fresno on Blackstone Avenue, and is open for lunch and dinner five days a week. Fasika's menu contains a long list of Ethiopian dishes as well as a page full of Kenyan dishes. It has a large variety of vegetarian dishes. Two of us stopped in for lunch.
We ordered an appetizer of meat sambusas, which have a unique flavor from the seasoning. Fasika also has a vegatable sambusa on the menu.
For the entree we ordered the four vegetarian dishes. We chose the four from of a long list of Ethiopian and Kenyan dishes.
Ethiopian food is served on injera bread, a spongy flat bread. You eat it by tearing off a piece of bread and picking up the food with the bread.
Coffee was first grown in Ethiopia, so we had to finish lunch with cardamon flavored Ethiopian coffee. This bold coffee laced with fresh cardamon was among the best coffee we'd ever had.
http://www.fasikacalifornia.com/
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| Beef Sambusas Beef mixed with onions, peas, carrots, and spices, then folded in dough and fried |
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| Injera Bread |
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| Four Vegetarian Dishes on Injera Bread |
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| Miser Wat Lentils with garlic, onions, olive oil, and berbere sauce |
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| KyeSir and Dinich Red beets, onions, potatoes, jalapenos, olive oil, and lemon juice |
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| Biriganya Kenyan eggplant |
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| Gomen Collard greens with onions, garlic, and oil |
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| Ethiopian Coffee Flavored with cardamom and other spices |
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| Ethiopian and Kenyan crafts decorate the restaurant. |
Our lunch came to $28.90 including tax. Fasika is open Tuesday through Saturday from noon until 9:00 p.m. Fasika is closed on Sunday and Monday. They are located at 4712 North Blackstone Avenue (near the corner with Gettysburg Avenue) in Fresno.
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