Our last stop during Restaurant Week was Jambo Cafe. We had been to Jambo several years ago and decided it was definitely time to come back. This is a family friendly place with lots of families with children. It was nice to see so many children eating out with their parents. At 35 dollars per person this was a wallet friendly restaurant as well. I still can’t believe the large quantities of quality food we received.
The appetizers were a Mediterranean salad and the soup of the day. These were a meal in itself. The Mediterranean Salad had marinated artichoke hearts, capers, olives, roasted red bell peppers, grape tomatoes and red onions over organic field greens topped with a mint feta cheese dressing.
The soup of the day was a curry coconut sweet potato which was divine. I thought this soup was well prepared with excellent spices.
The roasted coriander seed encrusted salmon with organic quinoa and chick peas and braised baby bok choy with a spiced sweet smoked paprika sauce was a big hit. It was an entire fish. It was perfectly cooked and the sides were a perfect accompaniment to this fish.
I had the Ethiopian spiced Lentils which were soft cooked lentils in a tomato coconut
milk sauce with berbere spice, served with Roti. The dahl was so of the best I have ever
had. The portion size was large but I did manage to make a dent in the lentils. I loved the
spices. It was a delicious dish great on a cold and rainy night.
For dessert, we all had the pecan pie. It, too, was wonderful. We shared a bottle of red
wine by Goats do Roam, an African wine. Our waitperson, Jennifer was a delightful
experienced person. We knew we were in good hands when she advised us to order as
quickly as we could because there was a large group ahead of us. She wanted to make
sure our order was processed before the entire large group arrived.
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