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Eat With Your Hands at Fassil Ethiopian
Six or eight tables, Ethiopian art, and a tradition called gursha where you hand-feed each other, which is romantic on purpose.
Foodie Experiences
Six or eight tables, Ethiopian art, and a tradition called gursha where you hand-feed each other, which is romantic on purpose.
Fassil has six or eight tables, walls hung with Ethiopian art, and the chef often out front to talk you through the menu personally, which either sounds like a lovely small restaurant or a recipe for pressure depending on how your evening is going. It's the former. Dinner is one shared round of injera piled with slow-cooked stews and aromatic spices, and the whole tradition revolves around gursha: hand-feeding your companion a bite, which is somehow completely normal here and quietly, specifically romantic. A silver-winner in Vancouver Magazine's African and diaspora awards, rated 4.7, it earns the praise one careful, generously-spiced bite at a time. Come hungry, order the combination platter, let the chef point you toward the spicier wats, and plan to linger. The place rewards a slow night. Good coffee at the end seals it.
