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Asmara Restaurant · Arts District
Asmeret Teklu has run this Eritrean and Ethiopian kitchen near the Maine College of Art since 2004, serving a large vegan menu on injera. The Press Herald has named it one of the longest-running Black-owned restaurants in Portland, a fixture of Oak Street since it opened more than two decades ago.
Red Sea Restaurant · East End
An Eritrean and Ethiopian dining room on Washington Avenue's restaurant row since 2014, offering a vegetarian menu that runs entirely vegan. The Press Herald's Dine Out Maine review described the comfortable chatter of the dining room alongside praise for the kitchen's cooking, a combination the paper called a genuinely welcoming spot.