Asmara Restaurant and Bar

Asmara Restaurant and Bar Menu

(202) 588-8181
2218 18th St Nw, Washington, DC 20009

Breakfast


Shahani Fuul
$4.95
Sauteed and mashed fava beans, served with onions, tomatoes, jalapenos, yogurt, olive oil and berbere. Served with white or wheat French bread.
Farm Fresh Fried Egg and Cheese Sandwich
$4.95
With a choice of with white or wheat French bread. With two eggs.
Fuul Meselah
$5.50
Sauteed and mashed fava beans, served with onions, tomatoes, jalapenos, yogurt, olive oil and berbere. Served with white or wheat French bread. With scrambled or boiled egg.
Egg Sandwich
$5.95
With fresh onions, lettuce, tomatoes, green pepper and served with white or wheat French bread.
Hearty Omelet
$5.95
With an abundance of fresh grilled green peppers, grilled onions and tomatoes.
Egg and Country Potatoes
$6.95
2 eggs your way with country potatoes and with white or wheat bread.
Frittata
$5.50
Scrambled 2 eggs with tomato, onion, and jalapeno served with white or wheat French bread.
Asmara Egg Silsi
$5.50
2 egg with traditional eritrean spicy sauce and served with white or wheat French bread.
Asmara Fitfit
$5.95
Hot spice stew tossed with injera or bread and served with a scoop of fresh yogurt. Hot spice beef stew tossed with injera or bread and served with a scoop of fresh yogurt.
Kitcha Fitfit
$8.95
Kitcha fit-fit, a dish made from eritrean traditional bread tossed in eritrean hot or mild spice berbere and served with a scoop of fresh yogurt.
Kitcha Fitfit Flaxseed Silsi
$8.95
Kitcha fit-fit, a dish made from eritrean traditional bread tossed in traditional eritrean spicy flaxseed sauce.
Kitcha Fitfit Silsi
$8.95
Kitcha fit-fit, a dish made from eritrean traditional bread tossed in tomatoes sauce, hot or mild spice berbere and served with a scoop of fresh yogurt.
Kitcha Fitfit Quanta
$9.95
Kitcha fit-fit, a dish made from eritrean traditional bread tossed in.
Kitcha Fitfit with Meat
9.95
Kitcha fit-fit, a dish made from eritrean traditional bread tossed in hot spice beef stew and served with a scoop of fresh yogurt.

$Appetizers


Sambusa with Vegetable
$3.95
A delicious pastry filled with a choice of lentil or spinach. Sambusa veggie. Vegetarian.
Sambusa with Meat
$4.95
A delicious pastry filled with a spiced meat.
Asmara Salad Fitfit
$5.95
Chopped tomatoes, onions, and green peppers seasoned with house dressing mixed with pieces of injera.
Asmara Salad with Grilled Chicken
$6.95
Grilled chicken, lettuce, chopped tomatoes, onions and green peppers seasoned with house dressing.
Lentil Soup
$5.95
Prepared with onions, tomatoes, lentils and special asmara seasoning.
Vegetable Soup
5.95
Prepared with chefs special recipe. Vegetarian.

$Sandwiches


Grilled Fish Sandwich
$8.95
Served with white or wheat French bread and your choice of lettuce, tomatoes, onion and green jalapeno.
Grilled Chicken Sandwich
$8.95
Served with white or wheat French bread and your choice of lettuce, tomatoes, onion and green jalapeno.
Cotoletta Sandwich
$9.95
With a choice of chicken or fish. Served with white or wheat French bread and your choice of lettuce, tomatoes, onion and green jalapeno.
Sardine Sandwich
$7.95
Served with white or wheat French bread and your choice of lettuce, tomatoes, onion and green jalapeno.
Tuna Sandwich
7.95
Served with white or wheat French bread and your choice of lettuce, tomatoes, onion and green jalapeno.

$Meat Entrees


Tibsi
$11.95
Top round cubes sauteed with, jalapenos, onions, tomatoes and garlic. Served with injera and a side salad.
Awaze Tibsi
$11.95
Cubed tender beef marinated and cooked with tomato, onion, jalapeno, pepper and awaze sauce. Served with injera and a side salad.
Derek Tibsi
$11.95
Dry. Bite size fresh lamb cubes sauteed and fried in seasoned butter, onions and garlic. Served with injera and a side salad.
Kitfo
$12.95
Lean beef ground sauteed with clarified butter, seasoned with hot pepper, topped with homemade cottage cheese. Served with injera and a side salad.
Tibsi Firfir
$11.95
Beef. Pieces of injera soaked in a top round cubes sauteed with jalapenos, onions, tomatoes and garlic. Served with injera and a side salad.
Meat Combo
$23.95
Tibsi, derek tibsi, awaze tibsi, kitfo and tibsi firfir. Served with injera and a side salad.
Meat and Veggie Combo
$21.95
Tibsi, derek tibsi, awaze tibsi, kitfo and alicha firfir. With veggie choices. Served with injera and a side salad.
Zigni
$12.95
Lamb. Top round cut into small pieces and simmered with onions, tomatoes and seasoned hot berbere. Served with injera and a side salad.
Alicha Beggee
$11.95
Lamb. Mildly seasoned cubed lamb shank stewed in curry sauce and eritrean spices. Served with injera and a side salad.
Okra with Beef Mix
$11.95
Top round cut into small pieces and simmered with onions, tomatoes, and seasoned with berbere.
Tsebhi Derho
$11.95
Chicken. Skinless chicken legs and/or thighs on the bone simmered with onions, tomatoes and seasoned with berbere. Served with a hardboiled egg. Served with injera and a side salad.
Tibsi Derho
$11.95
Chicken. Cubed skinless chicken breast sauteed with jalapenos, onions and tomatoes. Served with injera and a side salad.
Tsebhi Dinish
$11.95
Pieces of beef and potatoes marinated in special eritrean made sauce with ginger, garlic, tomatoes and onion. Served with injera and a side salad.
Extra Side Veggie
2.95
Vegetarian.

$Vegetarian Dishes


Vegetarian Alicha
$8.95
Fresh cabbage sauteed with carrots, potatoes, onions, garlic and eritrean spices. Served with a side salad. Vegetarian.
String Beans and Carrot
$7.95
Fresh string beans and carrot sauteed with onions. Served with a side salad. Vegetarian.
Hamli
$8.95
Spinach marinated in vegetable oil, garlic and onions and eritrean spices. Served with a side salad. Vegetarian.
Gomen
$8.95
Collard greens freshly seasoned with garlic and ginger. Served with a side salad. Vegetarian.
Okra Stew
$7.95
Mildly seasoned and hearty okra stew in a tomato sauce, onions and eritrean spices. Served with a side salad. Vegetarian.
Vegetarian with Fish
$12.95
Grilled fish with a choice of 3 vegetable. Served with a side salad.
Vegetarian with Chicken
$12.95
Grilled chicken with a choice of 3 vegetable. Served with a side salad.
Vegetarian with Steka
$12.95
Grilled steak with a choice of 3 vegetable. Served with a side salad.
Timtimo
$8.95
Lentil cooked with onion, tomato and eritrean spices. Served with a side salad. Vegetarian.
Kike Alicha
$7.95
Cracked lentils cooked in curry sauce garlic onion and eritrean spices. Served with a side salad. Vegetarian.
Shiro
$9.95
Medium-mildly seasoned ground chickpeas cooked with onions, tomatoes and peppers. Served with a side salad. Vegetarian.
Vegetarian Combo
$10.95
Prepared with lentils, yellow peas, cabbage and collard green. Served with a side salad. Vegetarian.
Vegetarian Asmara Combo
$12.95
Prepared with lentils, yellow peas, cabbage, shiro, string beans with carrots and collard greens. Served with a side salad. Vegetarian.
Flaxseed Silsi
$8.95
Traditional eritrean spicy flaxseed sauce. Served with a side salad. Vegetarian.
Fish Dullett
$11.95
Freshly minced tilapia sauteed in a special blend of house spices, onions, peppers, mitmita (hot chili powder or mild) and olive oil. Served with a side salad.
Fish Gullash
11.95
Shredded tilapia fillet cooked with tomato sauce and onion. Served with a side salad.

$Pasta and Rice


Pasta
$7.95
Spaghetti or pasta penne with eritrean marinara sauce, meat sauce or tuna sauce.
Pasta with Grilled Fish
$9.95
Spaghetti or pasta penne with eritrean marinara sauce with grilled tilapia fish.
Pasta with Cotolleta Fish
$10.95
Spaghetti or pasta penne with eritrean marinara sauce with cotolleta tilapia fish.
Pasta with Grilled Chicken
$9.95
Spaghetti or pasta penne with eritrean marinara sauce and special eritrean seasoned with grilled chicken breast.
Pasta with Cotoletta Chicken
$10.95
Spaghetti or pasta penne with eritrean marinara sauce and special eritrean seasoned and cotoletta chicken breast.
Pasta Basilica
$7.95
Pasta bianco. Spaghetti or pasta penne with garlic olive oil and basil.
Rice with Grilled Fish
$9.95
Rice with eritrean marinara sauce with grilled tilapia fish.
Rice with Cotoletta Fish
$10.95
Rice with eritrean marinara sauce with cotolleta tilapia fish.
Rice with Grilled Chicken
$9.95
Rice with eritrean marinara sauce and special eritrean seasoned with grilled chicken breast.
Rice with Cotoletta Chicken
$10.95
Rice with eritrean marinara sauce and special eritrean seasoned with cotolleta chicken breast.

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