Wazema Ethiopian Restaurant

I loveeee Ethiopian food! Specifically, I love the Wazema platter for 2! It has the veggies basics and 2 meats– tibs which is cubes of beef sautéed in spices; and kefto which is ground beef cooked with spices. We ordered our kefto medium. The platter came with salad in the middle and various vegetables all wonderfully spiced and soooo tasty!
The price and and size of the platter for 2 was just perfect for the 2 of us. I ordered a mango juice too to compliment one of the spicier veggie dishes. Don’t get it twisted though, the platter is not spicy. It just has a wonderful mix of spices that always makes me feel like there’s a party in my mouth with each bite! My fiancé always reminds me of how much I love this food when he hears me making groaning noises when eating. He says it sounds like I’m having foodgasms! Lol
I’m finally writing this review after regularly coming to this place probably every 3 months! If you’re adventurous and want to experience what a foodgasm is then try this joint our for sure!

I’m trying to understand why so many Ethiopian Restaurants are so red? It’s really unexplainable to me — the predominant choice of this particular colour…
So yes — Wazema’s interior is extremely… red.
Food wise, it’s a decent spot. The food is quite nice, around a 3.5.
The drink list is priced well in terms of value, but they don’t actually carry Ethopian beer as the menu states.

My mom discovered this place by chance and couldn’t wait to take others to taste the goodies. It’s an unpretentious food and drinks place for the neighbourhood, very relaxing atmosphere. The menu is nearly all traditional Ethiopian. If you are vegetarian there’s a lot to eat. The beef dishes are fabulous. Each one uniquely spiced but not overwhelmingly hot. Didn’t get to try the lamb this time. We ordered the Wazema platter which is a sampler of meats and Veg’s and a kind of cottage cheese made from buttermilk, all served on injera. There was more injera on the side, both the brown and the white. And it’s gluten free. And the fermented flavour is so good. So much food we had to take the rest home. The two young ladies serving were so gracious and accommodating. It’s all made fresh so you have to wait once you’ve ordered, so we drank some of their spiced tea. I’d go back for sure.

I usually do take out and call ahead of time (because it takes a while to cook). They are very generous with the portions, always enough for the next day and the day after. I usually order spicy beef tibs. Amazing food quality, and friendly service, as my Ethiopian friends highly recommended this restaurant to me.

I went to Wazema with some friends to try Ethiopian food and we were surprised to learn that some things were delicious and others a little bit different. They serve you a type of bread called Injera. The good news is Injera is gluten free. The bad news is, it is a bit on the sour side. I found I could only eat so much of it. The good news is, it tasted less sour when you place all of the dips and meats onto the Injera.
After eating at the restaurant, my friends and I concluded it would have been a better idea to order a big platter so we could all try everything. We all shared our food but we leaned towards some dishes.
I ordered the Wazema Platter for one and really enjoyed the Kitfo, split peas, lentil, and mild split peas.
It was really good and I would recommend getting the dish again.
The weird thing is, we asked to have Ethiopian coffee and our waitress told us you can only have it on a Friday and not on a Saturday as Their kitchen is too small to provide this service. That seemed pretty odd to us because typically Fridays are just as busy as Saturdays.
Anywho, it was a good experience and I think I could eat Ethiopian again.

We have tried quite a few Ethiopian restraints on this strip… Lalibala (⁴⁄₁₀ And very inconsistent), Randevouz (⁷⁄₁₀) and I can’t remember the rest of the names. We had been here before but my last trip there was after awhile and I just say both my husband I and were shocked that we didn’t back sooner. They were super busy but the food arrived in perfect time and the service was ¹⁰⁄₁₀ and everything was so fresh ! The dulat was the best! I will never go bak to lalibala again especially the queen st w location (that’s another story!). But wazema is a must!

Food was ok.
Service was horrible. People working there were friendly but that is no excuse for horrid service. Even the bill took over 20 minutes. Just couldn’t wait to get out of there and even that took long.

Welcome to the world of unbelievable inconsistency in dining experiences. my first visit was on a very busy Friday evening and it was fantastic, last night on a not-​as-​busy weeknight, our experience was very different. On the Friday, the owner was there, last night she was not, I can only assume this was the difference.
I came with a couple old friends for dinner. I was raving about how amazing it was. The food retained the tastiness, but the service was really really bad. My SO asked for water twice and never got it. When they did bring water, she put a glass in front of everyone BUT him. His food was served well done when he asked for rare, the meal took 45 min to come out, and other tables that arrived after us were served their food before us over and over and over again. The servers never came to us unless we flagged them down. Really disappointing, and I felt bad for my friends that trekked so far out there.
I don’t know what else to say, I’m a little disheartened. Ethiopian families kept wandering in the entire 2.5 hours we were there, so I guess they don’t need Unilocal to generate business, I’m just super disappointed.