Rochester, NYEthiopian

Zemeta on South Clinton Avenue has served Ethiopian cooking since 2013 under owner Natael Beshaat, and CITY Magazine's feature on immigrant-owned kitchens describes a Friday and Saturday vegan buffet alongside a full menu of beef, chicken, and lamb entrees. Everything arrives with injera, the spongy sour flatbread used to scoop each dish. The magazine's international round-up called it reasonably priced and authentic. Order the weekend vegan buffet, or the yesimmirwet with injera.

Abyssinia on Mount Hope Avenue opened in 2000 under Daniel Tekilu and Aster Mengsha, and CITY Magazine's international food round-up singled it out for classic Ethiopian fare. It sits in the Mount Hope and South Clinton stretch that holds most of the city's Ethiopian kitchens, near the University of Rochester. Order an Ethiopian combination for two, which spreads meat and vegetable stews across shared injera and shows the range of the kitchen in one dish.

Addis Ababa on South Goodman Street is a family-owned and family-run Ethiopian restaurant that CITY Magazine included in its round-up of the city's international kitchens. Like the rest of Rochester's small Ethiopian cluster, it serves stews and vegetable dishes over injera, the sour flatbread that doubles as the utensil. A combination platter is the easiest way in, bringing several stews and lentils together on one shared round of injera.