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Blue Nile Cafe Menu
The Blue Nile Cafe is one of Kansas City’s favorite vegetarian and vegan restaurants. That’s because a majority of our menu items are meat and dairy-free.
Food Preparation
Our food is prepared in a traditional Ethiopian method, where utensils used to prepare meat dishes are not used for vegetarian and vegan dishes.
Blue Nile Cafe Menu and Prices
Appetizers |
| Sambussa | $1.75 |
a pair of triangular dough shells filled with a variety of different stuffing’s and lightly deep fried in soybean oil to a golden perfection.
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| Meat |
choice of chicken or beef.
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| Vegan |
choice of lentils, cabbage with potatoes, or collard greens with potatoes.
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| Shrimp Appetizer | $6.50 |
large fresh shrimp sauteed in apple cider vinegar and fresh herbs. served with house pita chips.
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| Ethiopian Style Crisp | $6.50 |
grilled chicken, vegetables, and cheese sandwiched between two flat pitas and baked crispy. served with spicy sauce for dipping.
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| Vegan Red Sea Hummus | $4.99 |
house made garbanzo dip served with pita bread. drizzled with olive oil. add grilled chicken or beef $1.50. lamb $2.00.
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| Vegan Mixed Bean Plate | $4.99 |
mixed beans cooked with red onions, tomatoes, garlic, and topped with feta cheese (optional). served with pita bread.
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| Vegan Floret Crunch | $3.99 |
cauliflower lightly browned till crispy and drizzled with sesame seed dressing and served in a bed of lettuce.
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| Goat Cheese And Plantain | $4.50 |
sliced plantain slightley fried with grilled goat cheese and touch of spicy fruit sauce.
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West Of Red Sea Salads |
| Vegan Misir Azifa | $3.50 |
pureed lentils mixed with finely chopped onions in a zesty dijon dressing.
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| Vegan Tomato Salad | $3.50 |
diced tomatoes freshly tossed with a mix of finely chopped onions and greens chilies in a tangy dressing of lime juice.
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| Vegan Ethio Potato Salad | $3.50 |
diced potatoes mixed with herbs and onions in blue nile’s vinaigrette dressing.
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| Vegan Kay Seer Salad | $4.50 |
a mixture of chopped beets with potatoes in pureed chilies and onions in lime juice.
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| Vegan Timatim Fitfit | $5.99 |
injera soaked in a tangy puree of tomatoes, onions, peppers, limejuice and vegetable oil. traditionally served cold.
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| Vegan Fruit Salad | $6.50 – $8.50 |
a mix of succulent fresh fruits topped with shredded coconut and house made strawberry dressing.
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East Of Red Sea Salads |
| Blue Nile Grilled Chicken Salad | $7.99 |
grilled chicken breast pieces served on top of a freshly toosed salad of romaine lettuce, red onions, feta cheese, tomatoes, and calamata olives. served with blue nile’s herbal balsamic vinegar dress
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| Vegan Grilled Vegetable Salad | $6.99 |
mixed vegetables grilled with garlic and cilantro, served over a bed of fresh romaine lettuce. drizzled with house balsamic vinegar dressing. (add grilled chicken for $2.00).
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| Vegan Falafel Salad | $6.99 |
crispy fava bean croquettes served over a bed of fresh romaine lettuce, pickles, tomatoes, and calomata olives. drizzled with house sesame seed dressing.
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| Mixed Greens Salad | $6.99 |
spring mixed greens toosed with apricots, walnuts, tomatoes, and soft goat cheese drizzled with house balsamic vinegar dressing. add grilled chicken for $2.00.
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Vegan Entrees |
| Add cup of soup $2.00. (Choose two additional vegan sides with each entree.). |
| Kik Alitcha | $6.50 |
slightly pureed yellow split peas simmered in mild sauce of onions, herbs and spices.
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| Tikil Gomen | $6.99 |
sliced cabbage with potato chunks, cooked with curry and herbs.
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| Misir Watt (Whole) | $6.50 |
whole lentils are simmered in blue nile’s own mild turmeric and cumin sauce.
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| Kik Misir Watt (Split) | $6.50 |
a traditional favorite of red lentils simmered with onions, garlic, ginger, and berebere (a blend of ethiopian spices).
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| Atkilt Watt | $7.50 |
string beans, with sliced carrots and potato chunks, simered in tomato based sauce.
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| Gomen Watt | $6.99 |
chopped collard greens are simmered in a mild garlic ginger sauce, herbs and spices.
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| Shuro Watt | $6.50 |
sun dried, roasted, and then seasoned milled chickpeas cooked in berbere sauce.
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| Begerdan | $7.50 |
eggplant cooked with bell peppers in tomatoes and onions with mild ethiopian spices and shredded coconut.
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| Dubba | $6.99 |
yellow squash simmered with tomatoes and onions with ginger and oregano sauce.
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| Inguday | $6.99 |
mushrooms simmered with fresh tomatoes in an ethiopian curried sauce.
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Non Vegy Dishes |
| Add cup of soup for $1.99 extra. |
| Doro Watt | $8.50 |
a drumstick and thing cooked to tenderness in a hot and thick berbere sauce, and served in ethiopian style with a hard-boiled egg.
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| Zilbo | $8.25 |
tender morsels of beef sauteed with onions and garlic and simmered with collard greens in a specially seasoned mild sauce.
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| Zegeney | $9.99 |
cubes of beef cooked to tenderness in a sauce of tomatoes, garlic, and thick berbere sauce.
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| Blue Nile Tebbs | $8.99 |
tender chopped lean beef, sauteed to perfection with onion, green chili, seasoned butter and herbs.
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| Creamy Curried Chicken | $8.99 |
chicken breast simmered in Nile’s creamy curry sauce, seasoned with herbs and ethiopian cardamon. substitute shrimp, $2.00(shrimp watt).
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| Chicken Atkilt | $8.99 |
chicken breast marinated in fresh herbs and spices, slowly grilled and sauteed with fresh mixed vegetables. substitute shrimp, $2.00 (shrimp atkilt).
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| Chicken Tebbs | $8.99 |
chicken breast marinated in fresh herbs and spices, sauteed with onions, tomatoes, garlic, roasted peppers. substitute shrimp, $2.00 (shrimp tebbs).
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| Healthy Eater | $10.25 |
chicken atkilt, chicken tebbs and two vegetable sides arranged on our large serving toy.
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Ethio Combo |
| (Add cup of soup for $1.99 extra). |
| Blue Nile Messob | $9.50 |
each, a dazzling array of blue nile tebbs, doro watt with your choice of 3 vegetarian sides, aranged on our large serving tray. served with injera.
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| Strictly Vegan Combo | $8.50 |
each, a combination of your choice of 5 vegetarian dishes arranged on a platter, served with injera. add vegan salad for $0.50 extra.
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| Meat Lover’s Combo | $12.50 |
each, a combination of lamb tebbs, shrimp watt, chicken tebbs, zegeney and gomment watt arranged on our large serving tray with injera. add any additional veggie for $2.00 each.
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| Create Your Owen Messob | $4.50 |
choose from any of the non vegy dishes for, or your choice of Vegan dishes for $2.99. choose as many side as your like.
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| Extended Family Messob | $45.50 |
a combination of shrimp watt, chicken tebbs, lamb tebbs, beef watt (zegeny) and three vegetable sides of your choice arranged on our large serving tray with injera. serves 4 – 5 people.
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West Of Red Sea Specials |
| (Add cup of soup for $1.99 extra.) |
| Lamb Fitfit | $13.50 |
juicy tender leg of lamb slow braised with onions, garlic, tomatoes, ethiopian herbs and spices, served over. couscous or injer.
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| Gored Gored | $10.99 |
morsels of choice lean beef dipped in a traditional souce of milled pepper thickened with aromatic buttery spiced sauce traditionally served raw or very rare.
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| Kitfo | $10.99 |
freshly minced, very lean choice beef mixed with mitmita and spcied butter. served like steak tartar raw or rare.
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| Yebeg Tebbs (Lamb) | $12.99 |
slices of lean lamb sauteed with onions, green chilies and tomatoes in ethiopian herbs and spices.
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| Bazerua Shurro | $8.50 |
cubes of lean beef simmered in blue nile’s seasoned milled chickpeas.
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Eas Of Red See Special |
| (Add cup of soup for $1.99 extra). |
| Grilled Chicken Plate | $9.99 |
grilled chicken breast over brown rice served with, spiced yogurt and house salad.
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| Vegan Falafel Plate | $8.50 |
crispy fava bean served over a bed of salad with calamata olive side of hummus dizzled with house sesame seed dressing.
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| Vegan Lentil Plate | $7.99 |
lentils cooked with cumin and garlic, are served over a bed of brown rice and topped with crispy fried red onions. served with a side of hummus, pita bread and house salad.
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| Grilled Chicken Vegy Plate | $9.99 |
grilled chicken breast served with steamed or grilled vegetables and a side of pita bread, hummus and house salad.
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| Vegan Vegy Plate | $8.50 |
grilled or steamed vegetables served with side of mixed beans on rice, served with house salad.
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Extras |
| Brown Rice | $1.99 |
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| Spiced yogurt | $1.50 |
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| Red Sea Hummus | $1.99 |
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| Injera | $1.00 |
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| Chutney | $0.65 |
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| Mixed Beans | $2.99 |
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| Rosemary Potatoes | $2.99 |
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| Steamed, Sauteed Mixed Veggies | $3.99 |
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| Dessert |
| Vegan Ethio Coffee Cake | $3.00 |
biscuits dipped with ethiopian coffee are lined with layers of non – dairy cream and topped with crystal caramel and almonds, choose between strawberry or orange flavored.
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| Fresh Mango Cheese Cake | $4.00 |
fresh mangoes mixed with cream choose over a golden crumbled honey cookie crust.
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Beverages |
| Ethiopian Coffee | $2.00 |
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| Espresso | $1.25 – $2.00 |
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| Milk | $1.85 |
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| Chocolate Milk | $2.25 |
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| Soy Milk | $2.50 |
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| Hot Chocolate | $2.50 |
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| Specialty Coffees And Drinks | $3.50 |
your choice from cappuccinos, chai mattes, macchiatos or special order. substitute organic soy milk for $1.00 extra.
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| Freshly Squeezed Juices | $3.50 |
orange, carrot, apple.
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| Bottled Juice | $2.00 |
mango, guava.
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| Sodas | $1.75 |
pepsi, diet pepsi, raspberry tea, sierra mist, dr. pepper, gaterade, pink lemonade, bottled water.
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| House Brewed Ice Tea | $2.00 |
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| House Rose Water Lemonade | $2.00 |
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* DISCLAIMER: Information shown on the website may not cover recent changes. For current price and menu information, please contact the restaurant directly.
Conclusion:-
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