Ethiopian cuisine restaurant, offering vegan, vegetarian and other dishes. There are indoors and outdoors seating. Indoors there are a lot of colorful decorations, and many different light sources. Outdoors, it is on a side street from a busy road, and there are planters separating seating from the street.
All main courses are served on top of and with some extra Injera, a spongy Ethiopian pancake-like flatbread made of teff, a gluten-free grain. These main courses are served without cutlery, and to eat them, you take a piece of injera in your hand and pinch some food with it, and eat the food and injera together. If you prefer to use cutlery, you will have to ask the waiter for some.
The lighting inside is composed of many ceiling-facing wall lamps and hanging lampshades, as well as a LED-chains over the bar and next to the ceiling. There are candles on the tables, but it is possible to refuse them.
The tables are situated pretty close to each other, in what seems as an effort to maximize capacity. This means you might need to ask someone to scoot to pass through to your seat, or someone might brush against you or your seat on their way to and from their seat.
It is particularly busy from 18:00 to 22:00 on Wednesday to Sunday. If you want to experience the place when it is less busy, it is best to go right as they open in the afternoon, or go on Monday or Tuesday.
When the restaurant is full, mostly from 18:00 on, it can get very loud, just because of the sounds of conversation and laughter.
While the restaurant is on a side street, sound from the nearby road and train can still be heard when seated outdoors.
Apart from the smells of Ethiopian food, it is important to note that if the coffee ceremony is performed (supposedly every evening at 20:00, but it wasn't performed when I was there in May 2025), the smell of fire smoke, incense and roasting coffee beans can be felt intensely in the interior areas closer to the ceremony.
At the address, you will see a terrasse surrounded by plants and a wooden fence, with a top yellow sign that says Cafe & Restaurant and a lower white sign that specifies the name of the location. walk through the terrace to the door to be greeted by waiting staff.
It is a good idea to reserve a table in advance. You can book a table online (no phone-call required) and see the menu on their website here: https://www.bejte-ethiopia.de/
If you arrive without having made a reservation in advance, and all tables have the "Reserved" sign on them, they might not all actually be reserved. Ask the waiter for a table to make sure.
When you arrive, a waiter will meet you at the door. Tell them under what name you made your reservation. If you haven't reserved, tell them how many people you have or expect in your party.
After you are seated, a waiter will take your order at the table.
After the meal, you can ask the waiter to bring the bill and charge you at the table. The accept cash or card.
Single stair to male and female single-cell toilets
