On location: Blue Nile restaurant

On Saturday night, we took Around the World dinners on location to the Blue Nile restaurant, an Ethiopian restaurant in Minneapolis. Steve and I used to eat here frequently in the years B.C. (before child) but hadn't been back in... well, in about seven or eight years. It was just as good as we had remembered, maybe even better. We ordered the Gosa Gosa A combo, a platter of their vegetarian dishes, served on a communal platter. In traditional custom, Blue Nile doesn't give you silverware: you eat by breaking off pieces of biddeena (bread) and using it to pick up bites of the other foods. I was struck by what a sense of closeness sharing a platter of food gave our meal. M's favorite dish was the sauteed potato and carrot but he also ate plenty of red lentils and black lentils. My favorite was the foule, a fava bean stew. Check them out at Blue Nile Restaurant. We will not wait another seven years to return and will probably make a homemade Ethiopian meal soon, but maybe with fewer dishes on our Gosa Gosa platter.


M's comment I liked the biddeena and I liked using it as a spoon!