Selamta Ethiopian Restaurant and Bar Menu – Lenexa, KS

Type : Restaurant

Location : Lenexa, KS

Based on 143 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 4.5 stars. Price

✔️ Dine-in ✔️ Takeout ✔️ Delivery

Selamta Ethiopian Restaurant and Bar 66215

Address:
12838 W 87th St, Lenexa, KS 66215

Phone: (913) 400-2732

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Hours

Sunday 12–8 PM
Monday

(Labor Day)
Closed
Tuesday Closed
Wednesday Closed
Thursday 12–8 PM
Friday 12–8 PM
Saturday 12–8 PM

Menu

Meat Dish Beef
Kitfo
Ground raw beef, marinated with mitmita (a chili powder) and butter (a clarified butter infused with herbs and spices) and could be served with sides: gomen (cooked collard greens), cheese. It is served with kocho (flatbread) or injera. It can also be served raw, medium (warmed up), or well cooked.
Selamta Special Kitfo
Well cooked meat and all the sides listed on no1
Tibs
(Sauteed meat chunks-tender sliced meat of your choice sauteed blend of spices, onions, tomatoes, hot peppers, garlic, butter or oil and rosemary.
Gored Gored
Raw beef with slight heat touch served mitmita or awaze
Kurit
(Tire siga) cubes of raw red meat. It could be served either with injera or bread to clasp the meat you carve off the raw slab, and dipped in copious amounts of mitmita, awaze sometimes mixed with mustard.
Zil Zil Tibs
Strips of tender lamb / beef marinated in awaze sauce, garlic / onions and seasoned with butter.
Ye Shekla Tibs
Finger length strips of tender lean beef marinated and sauced in kategna’s spice, butter, green pepper, onions, garlic, and resh rosemary.
Gomen Besiga
Tender cubed beef sauteed in serranc pepper, onion garlic, and chopped collard or kale.
Godin Tibis
(Ribs)
Lamb
Lamb Tibs
Lamb sauteed in a stir-fry style with a light sauce, your choice mild or spicy
Awaze Tibis
Lean beef or lamb sauteed with awaze sauce, fresh rosemary, onions, jalapeno peppers, fresh tomatoes and garlic.
Qey Wot
Slow-simmered tender lamb in a spicy savory berbere sauce-served with a side of spinach and house made ethiopian-style cheese.
Dulet
Made with minced tripe (an animal’s stomach lining), along with liver and lean beef fried in butter, onions chilli, cardamom and pepper.
Kikil
Boil water in a pan as needed. Sauted ground spices, lime leaves, tomato, garlic, ginger, lemon grass until fragrant, then into the stew, kikil cook until soft.
Chicken
Doro Wat
Doro wat (chicken stew)- a rich red-colored chicken stew, red onions, tomato, butter, and chicken-long stewed in our special berbere sauce. The stew gets its deep red hue from berbere. It could be served with fresh cheese and gomen.
Selamta Special Chicken
Bits of chicken wings, onions,green pepper, chicken spices marinated in homemade sauce.
Chicken Rotisserie
Chicken dish cooked on a rotisserie using direct heat.
Fish
Asa Tibs
Asa tibs are chunks of fish marinated in berbere spice and lime juice and then fried in oil and paprika, with grated garlic and ginger.
Asa Goulash
Seasoned fish (talapia) served with salad and injera.
Asa Kotelet
Seasoned fish (talapia) is marinated with fish powder and cooked until it gets crispy.
Combinations
Meat Combination
A delicious and generous combination of our finest meat dishes with veggie sides.
Vegi Combination
A blend of dishes. Combination of gomen (boiled collard greens sau-teed with red onions), yatakilt wat (carrots, potatoes, cabbage), yemsir wat (lentils with garlic, ginger, onion sauce) yekik alicha (yellow split peas) beets and potato salad, and misir alicha (whole lentil stew) and salad.
Vegetarian & Vegan Dishes
Shiro Wat
A lightly spiced chickpea or bean puree. Minced onions garlic and oil, ground ginger or chopped tomatoes and chili peppers,and spices.
Beyaynetu
A colorful buffet of vegetable dishes arranged on a round of injera.
House Salad
Romaine lettuce, sliced tomatoes, and onions tossed i dressing of lemon and extra virgin olive oil.
Fir-Fir
(Sauteed injera)- shredded injera stir-fried with berbere and kibbe. It usually served with more injera or bread on the side.
Special Dish
Bozena Shiro
Seasoned milled chickpeas simmered with cubes of lean beef.
Tegabino
Shiro made with heavily spiced legumes chickpeas, field peas or fava beans, flour, oil or butter, and water brought to the boil, and then brought bubbling all the way to the way to the table in a miniature clay pot
Shiro Be Kibbe
(Legume stew) -reddish, saucy dish is made by combining a flour of ground split peas or chickpeas with kibbe,or spiced clarified butter.

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Reviews

Nikki
If you haven’t ever had Ethiopian food, now is the time to try it!

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Gideon Transportations
Delicious takeout experience! I decided to try Selamta Restaurant for takeout today, and I couldn’t be happier with my meal. The ordering process was smooth and efficient, and the staff she was incredibly friendly during the pickup. The food was packed securely and arrived hot and fresh. I ordered two Awaze tbs and each dish was bursting with flavor and perfectly cooked. The portion sizes were generous, providing me with a satisfying and delightful meal. I highly recommend Selamta Restaurant for their scrumptious food and excellent service, even for takeout! Looking forward to my next visit.

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Gospel Bearer
This is a restaurant I could eat at every day for the rest of my life. I wouldn’t hesitate if the opportunity were available to me. I have in three trips experienced the top five meals of my lifetime, two of which now hold the #1 and #2 position. I can hardly find the proper adjectives and depth of quality and value that my meals here have brought to my life. Upon my second visit (I had the beef tibs the first time around) I ordered Qey Wat and the veggie combo, I was moved to tears. I ate alone each time and the tears were primarily motivated by the overwhelming wish that I could share such exotic delight with a loved one friend or otherwise. I have eaten a wide variety of foods throughout my near four decades of culinary experience and I wouldn’t recommend any other choice in the whole world more highly than this combination of flavors and textures. Please do yourself a lifetime experience of ordering the Qey Wat and veggie combo, also enjoy a glass of tej. I’m deeply grateful for my experience and I will take every future opportunity I have to visit this blessing to earth and people.

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asmelash kahsay
I am really really sorry for those who give five stars for this place. I wish I can show you the test of Ethiopia food in other cities like Dallas, Denver, Atlanta, Houston……. and so and so. Besides that you ask Tea and they bring something even it doesn’t test. The bad thing, I was trying to describe how to operate that machine however they have lack of willingness. Even if I was trying to communicate in theirs native language, they still playing. They only watch your hand how much you tip them. I am back to my city but I am sorry for those who stick here.

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Shaan Somani
What an incredible meal! I think the awaze tibs were some of the best Ethiopian dishes I’ve ever had. Don’t miss out on the vegetarian combination platter. The portion sizes were huge and well worth the price. My girlfriend and I ordered three dishes to share and had a ton leftover to take home.

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Celest Osei-boamah Hilton
Honestly one of the best tasting Ethiopian places I’ve been to. So much flavor and they actually have fresh fruit juices which is game changer for me. Good portion sizes. I do wish they had a bit better communication as I wanted veggies with the meat combo but never was told how much that would be until I got my bill. Other than that, it was great.

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B.R. Brown
Unbelievable, a meal that makes me want to be part of an authentic Ethiopian experience beyond introduction! For a first time, I am blown away.

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Burak Senturk
This place needs to step it up, their prices are way to high for the quality. A single samosa was 3 dollars and it wasn’t warm at all. The injera was cold and tasted slightly off and the food quality was not what we expected. The baklava was also not good and I’ve had baklava before. The quantity for a 20 dollar plate combo was also lack luster. Be careful how you spend your money, many other Ethiopian restaurants that I feel have better prices and quality.

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Irish Racion
This is our first time with Ethiopian food. I’m still adjusting to the taste. I ordered Tibs and asa kotelet. The tibs (spicy sautéed beef) is really good. The injera (sour bread) is too sour to eat it plain, you have to balance it with the beef, the sauce was too spicy for me (just use a little bit if you can’t handle spicy food) overall experience was great.

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pat royal
My husband , son and I dined here for dinner as it was recommended as a fine Ethiopian Cuisine. We frequent many around town and happened to been in the area and sat down here to try it out!!

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