Ethiopian cuisine characteristically consists of vegetables and spicy meat dishes, usually in the form of wot, a thick stew, served atop injera, a large sourdough flatbread. Our menu is full of varied flavorful dishes: mild, spicy, vegetarian, vegan, chicken, lamb and beef. It’s all made with love and authentically Ethiopian!
MISSION BAY
TENDERLOIN
REOPENING JANUARY 2024
Appetizers
Sambussa
$7.50
Thin flaky dough stuffed with your choice of lentils or ground beef spiced with different onions and peppers served with tomato based spicy dip. 4 pcs.
Timatim Fitfit
$9.50
This cold dish has diced tomatoes, onions and spicy berbere with pieces of injera and tossed in our special house salad dressing. Vegetarian, Vegan
House Salad
$9.50
Green leaf lettuce salad with tomatoes, jalapeños, and onions tossed in our special salad dressing. Vegetarian, Vegan
Kitfo Wrap
$11.50
Ground beef sautéed with Tadu’s special homemade butter and spices wrapped with injera and ayib cheese -served medium rare.
Buticha Salad Platter
$9.50
Ground chickpeas, peppers, garlic, and onions salad over lettuce served with injera.
Azifa Salad
$8.50
Brown lentil, peppers, and onions salad over lettuce, served with injera.
Veggie Entrées
All served with salad, azifa and buticha.Gomen
$12.50
Fresh collard greens sautéed with onions, garlic, and jalapeños.
Alicha Tikil Gomen
$12.50
Fresh Cabbage, potatoes, and carrots cooked with turmeric sauce of onions, garlic, and ginger.
Misir Wot
$12.50
Spicy Split lentil sauce made with berbere, onions, garlic, and ginger.
Shiro Wot
$13.90
Ground chickpeas and berbere cooked with onions, tomatoes, and garlic.
Kik Alicha Wot
$12.50
Chickpeas cooked with mild turmeric, onions, garlic, and jalapeños.
Key Sir
$12.50
Fresh beets and potatoes cooked with onions, tomatoes, garlic, and jalapeños.
Salad
$9.50
Green leaf lettuce salad with tomatoes, jalapeños, and onions Topped with ayib cheese and buticha salad tossed in Tadu’s special house dressing.
Add Chicken
$5
Add Beef
$6
The Tibs Plates
Served with salad and a choice from misir wot, kik alicha, gomen, alicha tikil gomen, or key sir.Beef Tibs
$15.50
Cubed beef sautéed with onions, jalapeños, and tomatoes sautéed with special Tadu berbere based spices.
Chicken Tibs
$14.50
Cubed chicken sautéed with onions, jalapeños, and tomatoes sautéed with special Tadu berbere based spices.
Lamb Tibs
$16.50
Cubed lamb sautéed with onions, jalapeños, and tomatoes sautéed with special Tadu berbere based spices.
Tofu Tibs
$13.50
Cubed tofu sautéed with onions, jalapeños, and tomatoes sautéed with special Tadu berbere based spices.
Mushroom Tibs
$13.50
Cubed mushroom sautéed with onions, jalapeños, and tomatoes sautéed with special Tadu berbere based spices.
Eggplant Tibs
$13.50
Cubed eggplant sautéed with onions, jalapeños, and tomatoes sautéed with special Tadu berbere based spices.
Regular Kitfo
$15.50
Ground beef mixed with homemade butter and spices. Cooked rare, medium rare, or well done. Served with Ayib- cheese, gomen and salad.
Special Kitfo
$16.50
Ground beef mixed with homemade butter and spices, with onions and jalapeños. Cooked rare, medium rare, or well done. Served with Ayib- cheese, gomen and salad.
Kitfo Sandwich
$14.50
Ground beef mixed with homemade butter and spices. Cooked rare, medium rare, or well done. Served with Ayib- cheese , gomen and salad.
Firfir - Beef Berbere Banatu
$15.50
Small pieces of injera tossed in beef berbere, based sauces cooked with tomatoes, onions, garlic, and ginger. Served with salad, azifa, and buticha.
Firfir - Lamb Alicha Banatu
$15.50
Small pieces of injera tossed in lamb Turmeric based sauces cooked with tomatoes, onions, garlic, and ginger. Served with salad, azifa, and buticha.
Firfir - Vegetarian Banatu
$14.00
Small pieces of injera tossed in veggie/chickpea based sauces cooked with tomatoes, onions, garlic, and ginger. Served with salad, azifa, and buticha.
Tadu's Specialty Entrées
All served with salad, azifa, and buticha.Vegetarian Combination
$16.50
Sampler plate of kik alicha wot, misir wot, gomen, alicha tikil gomen, and key sir wot.
Minchet Abish Wot
$15.50
Ground beef and bereber sauce flavored with garlic, ginger, onions, and jalapeños.
Gomen Besega
$15.50
Collard greens slow cooked with tender lamb cubes, garlic, onions, peppers, and homemade butter.
Beef Mushroom Tibs
$16.75
Cubed beef tibs with mushroom, onions, tomatoes, bell peppers and spiced with berbere.
Bozena Shiro
$16.00
Ground chickpeas sauce slow cooked with chunks of beef, onions, tomatoes, peppers, garlic, and Tadu’s special homemade butter.
Meat Combination
$16.90
Sample plate of minchet abish, gomen besiga, and lamb alicha wot.
Breakfast
All breakfast items are served until 2:30pm and with a choice of injera or bread.Foule
$10.50
Beans cooked with onions, garlic, tomatoes, and berbere spice with a touch of Tadu’s special butter or olive oil. Served with yogurt.
Add Eggs
$3
Kinche
$7.50
Shredded oats sautéed with special spices and butter/olive oil.
Egg Firfir
$8.50
Eggs scrambled with onions, jalapeños, and Tadu’s special butter.
Special Egg Firfir
$9.50
Eggs scrambled with special tomato-berbere based sauce, onions, jalapeños, and Tadu’s special butter.
Egg Chechebsa
$12.50
Chopped Flat bread (kita) and special egg firfir served with honey topping.
Beverages
Tea
$2.75
Ethiopian Tea leaf and sweet spices
Coffee
$3.50
Yirgachefe, Red Sea, and Tadu blends
Soda
$2.75
Coke, Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Sprite, Ginger Ale, Orange Soda
Sparkling Water
$3.00
Perrier Sparkling Water (bottle)
Juice
$3.50
Apple juice and assorted Snapple juices
Telba
$3.00
Ground flaxseeds smoothie with honey
Mexican Coke or Fanta
$4.50
Appetizers
Sambussa
$5.00
Thin flaky dough stuffed with your choice of lentils or ground beef spiced with different onions and peppers. 3 pcs.
Timatim Fitfit
$8.50
This cold dish has diced tomatoes, onions and berbere mixed with injera and tossed in our special house dressing. Vegetarian, Vegan
House Salad
$7.50
Romaine salad with tomatoes and onions tossed with Tadu's special dressing. Vegetarian, Vegan
Buticha Salad Platter
$8.50
Ground chickpeas, peppers and onions served over the house salad. Served with your choice of bread or injera.
Veggie Entrées
Gomen
$12.50
Fresh collard greens sautéed with onions, ginger and garlic. Vegetarian, Vegan
Alicha Tikil Gomen
$12.50
Fresh cabbage, potatoes and carrots cooked with onions, ginger and tumeric. Mild, Vegetarian, Vegan
Misir Wot
$12.50
Split lentil sauce made with berbere, onions, ginger and garlic. Spicy & Hot, Vegetarian, Vegan
Shiro Wot
$13.90
Ground chickpeas cooked with onion, tomatoes, ginger and garlic. Mild, Vegetarian, Vegan
Kik Alicha Wot
$12.50
Chickpea cooked with spicy turmeric, ginger and garlic. Mild, Vegetarian, Vegan
Azifa
$10.50
Lentils sautéed with onions, jalapeño, ground mustard seeds and lemon. Cold Dish, Vegetarian, Vegan
The Vegetable Melody
$11.95
Mushrooms or eggplant stir fried with peppers, jalapeno and berbere. Vegetarian, Vegan.
Please specify - mushroom or eggplant
Tibs, Kitfo & Firfir Entrées
Beef Tibs
$15.50
Beef sautéed with Tadu's special spices, onions, tomatoes, jalapeños and berbere. Your choice of juicy or regular.
Chicken Tibs
$14.50
Chicken sautéed with Tadu's special spices, onions, tomatoes, jalapeños and berbere. Your choice of juicy or regular.
Lamb Tibs
$16.50
Lamb sautéed with Tadu's special spices, onions, tomatoes, jalapeños and berbere. Your choice of juicy or regular.
Regular Kitfo
$16.50
Tadu's specialty! Lean ground beef sautéed with special spices and homemade butter. Served with a side of Ayib (cheese). Spicy & Hot. Please specify - well done, medium rare or rare.
Special Kitfo
$16.50
Tadu's specialty! Lean ground beef, onions and jalapeno sautéed with special spices and homemade butter. Served with a side of Ayib (cheese). Spicy & Hot. Please specify - well done, medium rare or rare.
Firfir - Beef Berbere Banatu
$15.50
Small pieces of injera tossed in Tadu's sauces of spicy berbere with beef. Spicy.
Firfir - Lamb Alicha Banatu
$15.50
Small pieces of injera tossed in Tau's sauces of mild tumeric with lamb. Mild.
Firfir - Vegetarian Banatu
$14.00
Vegetables and small pieces of injera tossed in Tadu's sauces of spicy berbere. Spicy & Hot.
Tadu's Specialty Entrées
Kitfo Sandwich
$14.50
Tadu's regular Kitfo and Ayib cheese spread. Spicy & Hot. Wheat or Sourdough - please specify.
Vegetarian Combination
$16.50
Kik Alicha, Misir Wot, Gomen and Alicha Tikil Gomen with sides of Azifa, buticha and salad.
Minchet Abish Wot
$15.50
Lean ground beef sauce cooked with berbere, garlic and onions. Served with a side of Ayib (cheese). Spicy & Hot.
Gomen Besega
$15.50
Collard greens cooked with lamb, onions and garlic.
Side Dishes - Most of the Veggie Entrees are also available as a Side Dish.
$6.50
Available Side Dishes: Gomen, Alicha Tikil Gomen, Misir Wot, Shiro Wot, Kik Alicha Wot and Azifa. (Please see the Veggie Entrees Menu above for more details.)
Beverages
Ethiopian Coffee
$3.50
Legendary hot coffee
Telba with Honey
$3.00
Cold drink with ground flax seeds and honey
Spicy Tea
$2.75
Hot Tea
Soft Drinks
$2.75
Diet Coke, Sprite, Canada Dry Ginger Ale
Sparkling Water
$3.00
Perrier Sparkling Water (bottle)
Snapple Juice & Iced Teas
$3.50
Various bottled juices and iced teas
Bottled Water
$1.50
Nestlé Bottled Water
Mexican Coke or Fanta
$4.50
ETHIOPIAN CUISINE GLOSSARY
Ayib: mild cottage cheese that’s often used to top other dishes.
Berbere: spice mix used heavily in Ethiopian cooking; made of toasted, dried red chile peppers, ginger, garlic, cardamom, onions, cloves, cinnamon, basil, and salt.
Firfir: infused with ginger, garlic, and several spices; made from shredded injera with spices and is the typical breakfast food.
Kitfo: finely chopped beef, seasoned with clarified butter and mitmita; often served raw, as the last dish of the meal.
Injera: soft, stretchy, crepe-like flatbread, made of sourdough starter and teff, then cooked until bubbly on a wood-fired clay griddle. Used as a utensil to pick up other dishes that are eaten by hand.
Sambussa: triangular, deep-fried pastry stuffed with beef, chicken, or vegetables.
Tibs: a dish with cubed, cut chicken, beef or lamb.
Wot: Ethiopia’s signature spiced stew, made with vegetables, fish, chicken, lamb, or beef.
WE CATER!
For catering inquiries for Mission Bay, please email us at [email protected] or call us at 415.655.9344 or 415.655.9270.
For the Tenderloin, email [email protected] or call us at 415.409.6649.
ETHIOPIAN CUISINE GLOSSARY
Ayib: mild cottage cheese that’s often used to top other dishes.
Berbere: spice mix used heavily in Ethiopian cooking; made of toasted, dried red chile peppers, ginger, garlic, cardamom, onions, cloves, cinnamon, basil, and salt.
Firfir: infused with ginger, garlic, and several spices; made from shredded injera with spices and is the typical breakfast food.
Kitfo: finely chopped beef, seasoned with clarified butter and mitmita; often served raw, as the last dish of the meal.
Injera: soft, stretchy, crepe-like flatbread, made of sourdough starter and teff, then cooked until bubbly on a wood-fired clay griddle. Used as a utensil to pick up other dishes that are eaten by hand.
Sambussa: triangular, deep-fried pastry stuffed with beef, chicken, or vegetables.
Tibs: a dish with cubed, cut chicken, beef or lamb.
Wot: Ethiopia’s signature spiced stew, made with vegetables, fish, chicken, lamb, or beef.
MISSION BAY
Appetizers
Sambussa
$7.50
Thin flaky dough stuffed with your choice of lentils or ground beef spiced with different onions and peppers served with tomato based spicy dip. 4 pcs.
Timatim Fitfit
$9.50
This cold dish has diced tomatoes, onions and spicy berbere with pieces of injera and tossed in our special house salad dressing. Vegetarian, Vegan
House Salad
$9.50
Green leaf lettuce salad with tomatoes, jalapeños, and onions tossed in our special salad dressing. Vegetarian, Vegan
Kitfo Wrap
$11.50
Ground beef sautéed with Tadu’s special homemade butter and spices wrapped with injera and ayib cheese -served medium rare.
Buticha Salad Platter
$9.50
Ground chickpeas, peppers, garlic, and onions salad over lettuce served with injera.
Azifa Salad
$8.50
Brown lentil, peppers, and onions salad over lettuce, served with injera.
Veggie Entrées
All served with salad, azifa and buticha.Gomen
$12.50
Fresh collard greens sautéed with onions, garlic, and jalapeños.
Alicha Tikil Gomen
$12.50
Fresh Cabbage, potatoes, and carrots cooked with turmeric sauce of onions, garlic, and ginger.
Misir Wot
$12.50
Spicy Split lentil sauce made with berbere, onions, garlic, and ginger.
Shiro Wot
$13.90
Ground chickpeas and berbere cooked with onions, tomatoes, and garlic.
Kik Alicha Wot
$12.50
Chickpeas cooked with mild turmeric, onions, garlic, and jalapeños.
Key Sir
$12.50
Fresh beets and potatoes cooked with onions, tomatoes, garlic, and jalapeños.
Salad
$9.50
Green leaf lettuce salad with tomatoes, jalapeños, and onions Topped with ayib cheese and buticha salad tossed in Tadu’s special house dressing.
Add Chicken
$5
Add Beef
$6
The Tibs Plates
Served with salad and a choice from misir wot, kik alicha, gomen, alicha tikil gomen, or key sir.Beef Tibs
$15.50
Cubed beef sautéed with onions, jalapeños, and tomatoes sautéed with special Tadu berbere based spices.
Chicken Tibs
$14.50
Cubed chicken sautéed with onions, jalapeños, and tomatoes sautéed with special Tadu berbere based spices.
Lamb Tibs
$16.50
Cubed lamb sautéed with onions, jalapeños, and tomatoes sautéed with special Tadu berbere based spices.
Tofu Tibs
$13.50
Cubed tofu sautéed with onions, jalapeños, and tomatoes sautéed with special Tadu berbere based spices.
Mushroom Tibs
$13.50
Cubed mushroom sautéed with onions, jalapeños, and tomatoes sautéed with special Tadu berbere based spices.
Eggplant Tibs
$13.50
Cubed eggplant sautéed with onions, jalapeños, and tomatoes sautéed with special Tadu berbere based spices.
Regular Kitfo
$15.50
Ground beef mixed with homemade butter and spices. Cooked rare, medium rare, or well done. Served with Ayib- cheese, gomen and salad.
Special Kitfo
$16.50
Ground beef mixed with homemade butter and spices, with onions and jalapeños. Cooked rare, medium rare, or well done. Served with Ayib- cheese, gomen and salad.
Kitfo Sandwich
$14.50
Ground beef mixed with homemade butter and spices. Cooked rare, medium rare, or well done. Served with Ayib- cheese , gomen and salad.
Firfir - Beef Berbere Banatu
$15.50
Small pieces of injera tossed in beef berbere, based sauces cooked with tomatoes, onions, garlic, and ginger. Served with salad, azifa, and buticha.
Firfir - Lamb Alicha Banatu
$15.50
Small pieces of injera tossed in lamb Turmeric based sauces cooked with tomatoes, onions, garlic, and ginger. Served with salad, azifa, and buticha.
Firfir - Vegetarian Banatu
$14.00
Small pieces of injera tossed in veggie/chickpea based sauces cooked with tomatoes, onions, garlic, and ginger. Served with salad, azifa, and buticha.
Tadu's Specialty Entrées
All served with salad, azifa, and buticha.Vegetarian Combination
$16.50
Sampler plate of kik alicha wot, misir wot, gomen, alicha tikil gomen, and key sir wot.
Minchet Abish Wot
$15.50
Ground beef and bereber sauce flavored with garlic, ginger, onions, and jalapeños.
Gomen Besega
$15.50
Collard greens slow cooked with tender lamb cubes, garlic, onions, peppers, and homemade butter.
Beef Mushroom Tibs
$16.75
Cubed beef tibs with mushroom, onions, tomatoes, bell peppers and spiced with berbere.
Bozena Shiro
$16.00
Ground chickpeas sauce slow cooked with chunks of beef, onions, tomatoes, peppers, garlic, and Tadu’s special homemade butter.
Meat Combination
$16.90
Sample plate of minchet abish, gomen besiga, and lamb alicha wot.
Breakfast
All breakfast items are served until 2:30pm and with a choice of injera or bread.Foule
$10.50
Beans cooked with onions, garlic, tomatoes, and berbere spice with a touch of Tadu’s special butter or olive oil. Served with yogurt.
Add Eggs
$3
Kinche
$7.50
Shredded oats sautéed with special spices and butter/olive oil.
Egg Firfir
$8.50
Eggs scrambled with onions, jalapeños, and Tadu’s special butter.
Special Egg Firfir
$9.50
Eggs scrambled with special tomato-berbere based sauce, onions, jalapeños, and Tadu’s special butter.
Egg Chechebsa
$12.50
Chopped Flat bread (kita) and special egg firfir served with honey topping.
Beverages
Tea
$2.75
Ethiopian Tea leaf and sweet spices
Coffee
$3.50
Yirgachefe, Red Sea, and Tadu blends
Soda
$2.75
Coke, Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Sprite, Ginger Ale, Orange Soda
Sparkling Water
$3.00
Perrier Sparkling Water (bottle)
Juice
$3.50
Apple juice and assorted Snapple juices
Telba
$3.00
Ground flaxseeds smoothie with honey
Mexican Coke or Fanta
$4.50
TENDERLOIN
Appetizers
Sambussa
$5.00
Thin flaky dough stuffed with your choice of lentils or ground beef spiced with different onions and peppers. 3 pcs.
Timatim Fitfit
$8.50
This cold dish has diced tomatoes, onions and berbere mixed with injera and tossed in our special house dressing. Vegetarian, Vegan
House Salad
$7.50
Romaine salad with tomatoes and onions tossed with Tadu's special dressing. Vegetarian, Vegan
Buticha Salad Platter
$8.50
Ground chickpeas, peppers and onions served over the house salad. Served with your choice of bread or injera.
Veggie Entrées
Gomen
$12.50
Fresh collard greens sautéed with onions, ginger and garlic. Vegetarian, Vegan
Alicha Tikil Gomen
$12.50
Fresh cabbage, potatoes and carrots cooked with onions, ginger and tumeric. Mild, Vegetarian, Vegan
Misir Wot
$12.50
Split lentil sauce made with berbere, onions, ginger and garlic. Spicy & Hot, Vegetarian, Vegan
Shiro Wot
$13.90
Ground chickpeas cooked with onion, tomatoes, ginger and garlic. Mild, Vegetarian, Vegan
Kik Alicha Wot
$12.50
Chickpea cooked with spicy turmeric, ginger and garlic. Mild, Vegetarian, Vegan
Azifa
$10.50
Lentils sautéed with onions, jalapeño, ground mustard seeds and lemon. Cold Dish, Vegetarian, Vegan
The Vegetable Melody
$11.95
Mushrooms or eggplant stir fried with peppers, jalapeno and berbere. Vegetarian, Vegan.
Please specify - mushroom or eggplant
Tibs, Kitfo & Firfir Entrées
Beef Tibs
$15.50
Beef sautéed with Tadu's special spices, onions, tomatoes, jalapeños and berbere. Your choice of juicy or regular.
Chicken Tibs
$14.50
Chicken sautéed with Tadu's special spices, onions, tomatoes, jalapeños and berbere. Your choice of juicy or regular.
Lamb Tibs
$16.50
Lamb sautéed with Tadu's special spices, onions, tomatoes, jalapeños and berbere. Your choice of juicy or regular.
Regular Kitfo
$16.50
Tadu's specialty! Lean ground beef sautéed with special spices and homemade butter. Served with a side of Ayib (cheese). Spicy & Hot. Please specify - well done, medium rare or rare.
Special Kitfo
$16.50
Tadu's specialty! Lean ground beef, onions and jalapeno sautéed with special spices and homemade butter. Served with a side of Ayib (cheese). Spicy & Hot. Please specify - well done, medium rare or rare.
Firfir - Beef Berbere Banatu
$15.50
Small pieces of injera tossed in Tadu's sauces of spicy berbere with beef. Spicy.
Firfir - Lamb Alicha Banatu
$15.50
Small pieces of injera tossed in Tau's sauces of mild tumeric with lamb. Mild.
Firfir - Vegetarian Banatu
$14.00
Vegetables and small pieces of injera tossed in Tadu's sauces of spicy berbere. Spicy & Hot.
Tadu's Specialty Entrées
Kitfo Sandwich
$14.50
Tadu's regular Kitfo and Ayib cheese spread. Spicy & Hot. Wheat or Sourdough - please specify.
Vegetarian Combination
$16.50
Kik Alicha, Misir Wot, Gomen and Alicha Tikil Gomen with sides of Azifa, buticha and salad.
Minchet Abish Wot
$15.50
Lean ground beef sauce cooked with berbere, garlic and onions. Served with a side of Ayib (cheese). Spicy & Hot.
Gomen Besega
$15.50
Collard greens cooked with lamb, onions and garlic.
Side Dishes - Most of the Veggie Entrees are also available as a Side Dish.
$6.50
Available Side Dishes: Gomen, Alicha Tikil Gomen, Misir Wot, Shiro Wot, Kik Alicha Wot and Azifa. (Please see the Veggie Entrees Menu above for more details.)
Beverages
Ethiopian Coffee
$3.50
Legendary hot coffee
Telba with Honey
$3.00
Cold drink with ground flax seeds and honey
Spicy Tea
$2.75
Hot Tea
Soft Drinks
$2.75
Diet Coke, Sprite, Canada Dry Ginger Ale
Sparkling Water
$3.00
Perrier Sparkling Water (bottle)
Snapple Juice & Iced Teas
$3.50
Various bottled juices and iced teas
Bottled Water
$1.50
Nestlé Bottled Water
Mexican Coke or Fanta
$4.50
Business Hours
Tenderloin:
Wednesday – Monday
4:00pm – 9:00pm
Mission Bay:
Monday – Saturday
11:30am – 9:30pm
Questions?
Tenderloin:
415-409-6649
[email protected]
Mission Bay:
415-655-9344 or 415-655-9270
[email protected]
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