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ReviewShebaLounge

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Sheba (Piano) Lounge Review

 

Sheba Lounge served us respectable, pleasing Ethiopian food in a lively, loud setting.  Aside from an appetizer and dessert, we ordered entirely from the Ethiopian side of the menu, not the American side.  Although some attendees complained some items were too spicy--especially when they took bites with sliced jalapeno peppers--, I didn't feel the dishes were any more spicy than most Ethiopian food, assuming one avoids eating the jalapenos directly.

 

We ordered spicy lentil sambussas as our appetizer.  They're basically egg rolls (i.e., fried rolls) filled with lentils and sliced jalapenos.  We thought they were good, though some had trouble dealing with the level of spiciness, and that's before dipping the sambussas in the accompanying cool, tangy, even spicier sauce.

 

As for the main courses, we ordered a fairly standard Ethiopian spread.  All the dishes were perfectly acceptable.  I won't go into many details.  We had doro tibs: relatively mild (milder than most other dishes), generally moist chicken.  We had tibs wat: beef in a dark sauce (Berbere sauce).  We had the vegetarian sampler: small piles (smaller than at past Ethiopian restaurants) of cabbage & carrot, spinach & potato, yellow lentils, red lentils, and green salad.  The accompanying injera was good, appropriately mildly sour.

 

For dessert, we had a cheesecake with a thick graham cracker crust.  Though the cake was a bit more sour than usual, we had no qualms finishing it.

 

Sheba Piano Lounge is indeed a lounge.  There are plush, boxy chairs so people to listen to the music without sitting at a table / eating. Although it wasn't crowded when we arrived, these seats got occupied later in the evening.  There's also a long bar for drinks.  We sat at a table uncomfortably close to the violinist--the music was too loud.  Nevertheless, I, at least, enjoyed the energetic music played above a pre-recorded back beat, or above, at times, the white noise sound of waves.

 

Aside from being delivered a dirty plate at the beginning of the meal, service was generally good.  /S/ was amused that one of the proprietresses, when coming over to ask how everything is, asked "How the hell is it?"

 

Sheba Lounge is located in the newly ritzy fillmore jazz district.  It's definitely gotten nicer since my last visit to this area, feeling recently revitalized, including a new outpost of Yoshi's.  One person remarked it was getting like University Avenue in Palo Alto, just less crowded.

 

Original Announcement

 

This evening we'll head to a Sheba (Piano) Lounge, an Ethiopian restaurant and (jazz?) piano lounge in the Fillmore district / Japantown.

http://www.shebalounge.com/

I don't know if they'll have live music tonight. 

 

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