The Seattle Met Review of Cafe Selam

Seattle’s Best Restaurants ~ Published between 2021, 2022, & 2023

The spongiest injera underpins painterly assemblies of meat or vegetables. Abebu Wondem’s homestyle menu of doro and vegetable wat and meaty tibs distinguishes Cafe Selam, even in a neighborhood peppered with great Ethiopian food. That goes double for the breakfast dishes, which weave in Middle Eastern notes like the stewy bowl of fava beans, known elsewhere in the world as ful medames, or a berbere-spiced scramble.