
Injera
The sourdough flatbread that is also the plate and the spoon. The base of every shared meal.
Harambe Ethiopian Restaurant — 2149 Commercial Drive
An unsolicited concept from X9 Lab Media for a Drive institution that's beloved by the neighbourhood but has no home online yet. Picture the menu as a warm, gridded almanac of berbere and injera — a page worth saving.
A reference grid of the kitchen's staples — laid out like an old farmer's almanac. Categories shown; the kitchen sets the final list and the prices.

The sourdough flatbread that is also the plate and the spoon. The base of every shared meal.

A slow, berbere-deep stew — the celebration dish of the menu, rich and warming.

A wheel of lentils, greens and split-pea stews shared around one platter. Plant-based by nature.

Sautéed and seared — quick-fired with onion, rosemary and a knock of spice. Off the flame, onto injera.

Berbere and mitmita — the house warmth measured by the kitchen, not the clock.

Collard greens, spiced lentils and the small dishes that round out the wheel.

A full almanac on one tray — a spread built to be shared across the whole table.

Coffee, the way the day ends here — see the note below. Brewed in the jebena.

In Ethiopian tradition, coffee — buna — is rarely a thing you grab and go. Beans are roasted in the room, ground by hand, and brewed in a clay jebena; the pour is the close of the meal and the reason to stay a while.
A finished website should make room for that ritual the way the Drive already does. For now this is a placeholder note — the cafe confirms how they pour.
On Commercial Drive in East Vancouver — a short walk from the buzz of the strip.