Lesaac Ethiopian Cafe Menu (Update 2025)
Welcome to Lesaac Ethiopian Cafe, a vibrant culinary oasis nestled in Silver Spring, MD. This casual eatery invites you to embark on a journey through the rich flavors of Ethiopian cuisine. From the moment you step in, the lively atmosphere sets the stage for an unforgettable dining experience.
Start your meal with the delightful Ayib on Ciabatta, featuring Ethiopian cottage cheese drizzled with seasoned butter. For breakfast aficionados, the Chechebsa and Lesaac Egg Special are must-tries. Seafood lovers will be captivated by the Asa Gulash, a tilapia fillet immersed in a savory tomato sauce.
Lesaac also caters to diverse diets, offering plentiful vegan and vegetarian options. With outdoor seating and a full bar, it's perfect for casual brunches, lunches, or lively dinners. Plus, they accept cryptocurrency and have kid-friendly choices. Discover the flavors of Ethiopia today!
Kitfo Sandwich
Served with house salad.
Lesaac Shifinfin
A combination tibs fierer, lega tibs kitfo, and Ethiopian cheese on the top. covered with injera.
Combination Deluxe
Shiro, cabbage, carrot, tomato fir fir, fasolla split lentil wot, yellow split pea wot, collard green, and suf fir fir. Vegan.
Engurguro
Tender tip pieces of marinated beef cooked with onion, green peppers, and tomato. Served with awaze and red pepper sauce.
Breakfast Combination
Kinche, chechcbsa, and egg served with toasted bread.
Ethiopian Injera
Gluten-free injera.
Ayib on Ciabatta Bread
Ethiopian cottage cheese served with seasoned butter.
Deskosh Dip
Dried injera served with pitas mached kik alecha or defin misir.
Veggie Wrap
Your choice of our veggie dish wrapped in pita bread.
Lesaac Salad
Lettuce, tomato, red onion and jalapeno served with our house dressing.
Sambosa
Fried seasoned lentil salted spicy.
Appetizers
Breakfast
Chechebsa
Ethiopian style shredded pita bread served with seasoned butter.
Lesaac Egg Special
Scrambled eggs with onion, tomato, papers and a touch of butter.
FUL
Mashed fava beans cooked with chopped onions, tomato, and cumin.
Kenche
Cooked cracked wheat served with butter.
Breakfast Combo
Kenche, chechebsa, and eggs.
Dulet
Liver and tripe sauteed with a mixture of spices.
Qunata Firfir
season beef jerky cooked with sheredded onion &berbere with Ethiopian Butter.
Special Full with eggs
Mashed fava beans cooked with chopped onions,tomato,green peppers &cumin
Asa Gulash
Tilapia fillet cooked with Lesaac tomato sauce.
Asa Dulet
Tilapia fillet cut in very small pieces cooked with onion, a touch of jalapeno with mitmita and black paper.
Asa Sandwich
Our asa dulet can be served as a sandwich.
Lesaac Salmon Kitfo
Our salmon is cooked with a very special Lesaac ingredient: chill powder, sea salt with, black paper, cayenne paper and a touch of our homemade butter.
Fish Cottelete
Bake and served with lemon pepper crumb topped with tilapia fillet.
Seafood
Lunch and Dinner
Beef Tibs
Cubed tenderloin meat marinated and cooked with sliced onion and tomato.
Lesaac Tibs
Rib with marinated ribeye meat cooked with peppers, onion garlic, and a touch of house-seasoned butter.
Awaze Beef Tibs
Berber marinate tenderloin cooked with garlic, onion and tomato sauce.
Zilzil Tibs
A strip of ribeye beef seasoned with garlic and touch rosemary and butter.
Lesaac Kitfo
Lean beef tartar seasoned with herbal butter and mitmita and aib, Gurage style gomen, and kotcho is served.
Goden Tibs
Short ribs seasoned with garlic and sliced onions cooked well.
Kekel
Curry lamb broth mixed with spices.
Gomen Besiga
Marbled cut of beef stew cooked with chopped collard greens, garlic, and a touch of butter.
Shifnfin platter
A combination of beef tibs firfir, lega tibs, and kitfo served with a spread of cottage cheese and kinche (butter season cracked wheat).
Ethiopian Gluten free Injera
Our Traditional Veggie Platter
Red split lentil, yellow split peas, collard green, yellow cabbage with carrots, green beans with carrots, shiro, beets, and salad.
Awaze Mushroom Tibs
Fresh organic chestnut mushroom cooked with awaze, onion garlic, and pepper.
Shiro
Our ground highly seasoned chickpeas cooked with onion, tomato, oil, and a touch of berbere.
Spaghetti
Served with tomato sauce.
Vegetarian Platters
Group Special Platters
Combination Platter 1
Tibs, kitfo, doro wot and a choice of 3 vegetarian dishes.
Combination Platter 2
Ye kebe shiro, tibs, kitfo, and zelbo gomen.
Combination Platter 3
Kekel, shiro yebeg wot and tibs.
Doro Wot
Chicken stew simmered in berbere sauce served with a hard-boiled egg.
Yetashe Kitfo
Bee tartar, kitfo, mixed with cottage cheese and Lesaac's seasoned collared green.
Geba Weta
Our tenderloin meat seasoned and cooked with salt, a touch of rosemary and butter. Served rare or medium.
Quanta Shiro
Beef jerky cooked served with our special Shiro served with cottage cheese.