This is a gem of a cafe / restaurant. Real authenticity of food, service and atmosphere as the owner Tiggy smiles a beaming welcome at you as you enter the door and throughout the meal. Our meals of Beyayenetu and Lamb Tibs were absolutely outstanding and the portion sizes as seen in the photos are huge. We wanted to eat and eat and eat, but our stomachs gave out before our taste buds.
At £20 for starters and mains for two this is crazy value. The decor is layered in various traditional items with a colourful lime green washed wall, interspersed with a few office chairs, but it holds charm and character not kept by more expensive restaurants.
Go along, you will not be disappointed.
Lovely lady. Great food. Random place. I had the spring rolls and the Vegetarian Beyayinatu , which was a large, oval plate with many morsels of delicious foods, e.g. chickpeas, beautifully cooked beetroot (I don't normally like beetroot), rice and two types of Ethiopian pancake-like breads. Hearty, tasty and healthy. I am now very full. Note, cash-only. There's a cash machine on Chester Road, walkable within 5 minutes.
Visited the cafe with my wife. Our hostess was lovely, we had vegetable samosas for starters and for the main meal, were served a huge plate of mixed vegetarian and chicken curry's with doha for us to share. The food was lovely, it was nice to try lots of different things. Our hostess even made us a special tea and had us guess the spices. To top things off, the food was very affordable, we were surprised how little we were charged! Very happy experience and will be returning soon 😊
Fantastic Ethiopian food in Old Trafford. Very friendly family run place. I was shown how to eat the food African style and invited over for coffee with the family.
Amazing food lovely service would recommend a trip here to everybody.
Authentic Ethiopian food that tastes amazing.
Great food and superb quality. Definitely would go again. Coffee was very nice
Very interesting place - food is lovely, very well priced, very friendly owner! Highly recommended.
We went last night, the food was great, fresh tasty and home cooked! Portions are very generous and at a very low price!
The coffee was a lovely end to our meal.
The owner is delightful and it was a pleasure to sit eat her food and have a chat with her, we will be going back for sure.
A great venue for big groups all sharing the delicious food!
I went to the Blue Nile Cafe tonight with a friend tonight after hearing good things and I wasn't disappointed! The food was incredible. So much flavour and so much we could barely finish it. All this for under £10 per head including drinks. It was amazing! Tiggy the owner is the most friendly person you'll ever meet and is incredibly open and warm. I couldn't recommend eating here more!
Amazing hospitality from the host Tiggy. The food gives a real insight into etheopian flavours. With great variety in the dishes served on a platter for us all to share so we were all able to get a mix of the different dishes. Incredible value for money. The second time we have visited and both times with quite big groups. Always well accommodated for. Will be back soon!
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