Queen of Sheba

Ethiopian & Eritrean cuisine · Frankfurt am Main

Taste Ethiopia & Eritrea. Experience Sheba.

Authentic Ethiopian and Eritrean cuisine in the heart of Frankfurt.

Baseler Str. 54 · 60329 Frankfurt am Main

More than a meal

One table, one platter, many hands

In Ethiopia and Eritrea nobody gets their own plate. The dishes are arranged on one large injera in the middle of the table, and everyone reaches in.

Injera is a sourdough flatbread made from teff. It serves at once as plate, cutlery and side dish - you tear off a piece, gather some of a dish with it, and eat the two together.

What sits on the platter has taken hours: onions cooked slowly down, berbere built from more than a dozen spices, nitir kibbeh, a butter infused with cardamom and fenugreek. This cooking cannot be hurried.

The experience

Food that is not eaten alone

Gursha is the gesture of offering someone a bite with your own hand. It belongs to the meal, and it says more than any polite phrase.

Our tables are laid so there is room for everyone - for two, for eight, for a whole family. If it is your first time, we will explain what is on the platter and how to eat it. If you have eaten Ethiopian or Eritrean food before, you will find the dishes you know.

Discover the experience

Coffee ceremony

Coffee comes from Ethiopia

Green beans, roasted at your table. Ground by hand. Brewed in the jebena and poured in three rounds - abol, tona, baraka.

A ceremony takes time. That is not an inconvenience but the point of it: an invitation to stay seated.

The coffee ceremony
A cup of freshly brewed Ethiopian coffee

Groups & celebrations

For tables that grow

Birthdays, company dinners, family celebrations, groups visiting the city. A cuisine built for sharing lends itself well to many people at one table.

Tell us what you have in mind and we will come back to you personally.

Plan your event
A group eating together from one large injera platter

From the kitchen

Dishes worth returning for

Doro Wot with egg, ayib and injera

Doro Wot

€18.50

Ethiopia’s national dish: chicken slowly stewed for hours in berbere and caramelised onion, served with a boiled egg.

  • Hot
  • Key Tibs

    €17.90

    Pieces of beef with ground hot paprika, sautéed with onion and clarified butter.

    • Hot
  • Kitfo

    €19.90

    Finely minced beef with mitmita and spiced butter. Traditionally served raw - we are glad to prepare it lightly warmed (lebleb).

    • Raw
    • Hot
  • Yebeg Tibs

    €18.90

    Pieces of lamb sautéed with onion and chilli peppers.

    • Medium
  • A mixed platter of various dishes. Vegetarian/vegan.

    • Vegan
    • Fasting dish
    • For sharing
    • Medium
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Baseler Strasse 54

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Monday
12:00–00:00
Tuesday
12:00–00:00
Wednesday
12:00–00:00
Thursday
12:00–00:00
Friday
12:00–00:00
Saturday
12:00–00:00
Sunday
12:00–00:00
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