Asmara

Established in 1986, Asmara Restaurant in Central Square Cambridge, has proudly served Bostonians Eritrean Food.

Many people enjoy the Eritrean custom of eating with their hands with our bread called Injera. Asmara Restaurant provides two kinds of Injera’s. One is made out of rice flour and the other is made out of Teff. Teff is a high grain packed with a considerable amount of protein, calcium, and fiber in each colorful seed. If you are allergic to wheat please call the manager to speak about what your options are.

Asmara offers traditional woven basket tables called Mesob. Diner’s sit around the Mesob and the plate of food is placed in the center of the basket. Asmara Restaurant offers a variety of food to cater to the spicy, mild, vegetarian, carnivore, or vegan diners.

The restaurant is filled with Eritrean artifacts, a variety of traditional items and several paintings done by an Eritrean Artist of his personal visions of Eritrea. Once you walk into Asmara Restaurant, we want you to feel like you have experienced something very different and satisfying with our flavorful food and our colorful culture.

Appetizers 1. Spicy Chicken Wings - $8.95 2. Stuffed Tomato - $8.95 Whole tomato stuffed with spiced rice. 3. Spinach with Ricotta - $8.95 4. Tomato Salad - $7.95 Chopped tomato, onions, and green chilies in a house seasoning. 5. Stuffed Green Peppers - $8.95 Whole green pepper stuffed with spiced ground beef. 6. Ajibo Berebere - $7.95 Cottage cheese with a slightly fermented pepper sauce. 7. Salata Fitfit - $8.95 Chopped tomato, onions, and green chilies seasoned in a house dressing and soaked with pieces of injera. Eritrean Ethiopian Dishes Poultry 1. Boneless Chicken - $15.95 Boneless chicken marinated in garlic and different herbs and curried in fresh tomato and red pepper sauce stew. 2. Boneless Chicken - $15.95 Boneless chicken marinated in garlic and different herbs and curried in fresh tomato and mild yellow sauce stew. Lamb 3. Begeeh Mloukhiya - $15.95 Tender lamb mixed with high fiber jute plant and curried with red pepper sauce. 4. Atkilt Begeeh - Yebeg Atkilt - $14.95 Lamb meat curried in vegetable stew. 5. Alitcha Begeeh - Yebeg Alitcha - $14.95 Lam curried in a mild yellow sauce. Beef 6. Zeeghnie - Key Wot - $13.95 Choice lean beef curried in a red pepper sauce stew. 7. Fluy Tibsy - Liyu Tibs - $15.95 Cubes of tenderloin tips gently sautéed in our chef's special sauce. 8. Tesbhy Alitcha - Alitcha Wot - $13.95 Choice lean beef curried in yellow pepper sauce stew. 9. Zilzil Tibsy - Zilzil Tibs - $15.95 Long strips of tender choice beef sautéed in spiced butter, caramelized onions, green peppers, and garlic. 10. Minchet Abish - $13.95 Choice lean ground beef curried in red pepper sauce stew. 11. Alitcha Minchet Abish - $13.95 Choice ground beef curried in mild yellow sauce stew. 12. Zihla - Gored Gored - $15.95 Cubes of tenderloin beef tips served raw (or very rare) with spiced butter, and spiced and lightly fermented pepper paste. 13. Kitfo - $15.95 Kitfo is traditionally served raw, like steak tartar or lebleb (very rare). The butter has special herbs that give kitfo its distinct flavor. House Specialites 14. Asmara Tibsy - Asmara Tibs - $15.95 Tender beef cubes sautéed in spiced butter, onions, green peppers, and chilies. 15. Alit'cha Fitfit - $15.95 Pieces of injera soaked with a mild beef sauce. 16. Jumbo Shrimp Spicy - $17.95 Jumbo shrimp curried in pepper sauce. 17. Salmon Filet Spicy - $17.95 Salmon filets curried in pepper sauce. 18. Scallop Spicy - $17.95 Scallops curried in pepper sauce. 19. Zighny Fitfit - $15.95 Pieces of injera soaked in a hot beef stew. 20. Derho Fitfit - Yedoro Fitfit - $15.95 Pieces of injera soaked in a curried mild or hot chicken sauce. 21. Sega Bebaynetu - Sega Beyaynetu - $16.95 (per person) Meat combination; boneless chicken, spicy lamb, sautéed beef, and mild vegetable entrée, as well as a house special salad. 22. Vegetable Combination - $15.95 (per person) Ahimilti Bebaynetu - Atkilit Beyaynetu Cabbage, yellow split peas, collard greens, chick peas, lentils, and potato salad seasoning. 23. Alitcha Ahmilti - $15.95 Vegetable stew made from a mixture of cauliflower, carrots, eggplant, mushrooms, green peppers, string beans, and potato curried in yellow sauce. Vegetarian Entree 24. Timtimo - Kik Wot - $12.75 Yellow split peas curried in red pepper sauce or mild yellow sauce. 25. Hamli - Tikil Gomen - $12.75 Cabbage, carrots, and potatoes stewed in red pepper sauce or mild yellow sauce. 26. Tsebhi Hamli - Gomen Wot - $12.75 Collard greens or kale curried in red pepper sauce or mild yellow sauce. 27. Tsebhi Bersen - Meser Wot - $12.75 Lentils curried in red pepper sauce or mild yellow sauce. 28. Shuro - $12.75 Powdered and highly seasoned chick peas stewed in a pepper sauce. Salads 29. Tomato Salad - $6.75 Chopped tomato, onions, and green chilies seasoned in fresh lemon, oil, pepper, and vinaigrette dressing. 30. Asmara Potato Salad - $6.75 Chopped potato mixed with chopped parsley, green pepper, and seasoned in olive oil, fresh lemons, pepper, and garlic. 31. House salad - $7.75 Feta cheese, tomato, and chopped onions in virgin oil house dressing. 32. Seneg Karia - $1.40 Green peppers stuffed with seasoned chopped onions, garlic, parsley, pepper, and other spices. Also serving beer and wine