text: Let me start with a disclaimer I have never eaten Ethiopian food before but have read about the concepts history and attributes of the food We were out in Pittsburg for the Thanksgiving weekend and looking for something different to try Tana seemed to fit the billnnThe service was friendly the staff pleasing and very helpful The waitress helped explain the foods and structured a meal for us that would let us try various forms of the cuisine The only downside of the service was our waitressbartender did not know how to fix a Bourbon and Ginger Ale We settled on a Jack Daniels and Ginger Ale Close enoughnnThe food was where things began to go down hill Ethiopian food has a tradition of being heavily spiced and quite hot The food we tried was very mild and honestly not terribly interesting The Injera Teff flour spongy flat bread was good but we found it surprising it was not served warm Now it may be that it is usually served codcool but seemed all wrong to those of us used to eating Indian Roti or NaannnWe ordered appetizers Sambusa are pastry shells filled with various meats of vegetables We had a mix of lentil beef and chicken fillings Expecting something more akin to a Samosa these were smaller greasy and tasteless The chicken was palatable the lentils ok and the beef awful Think under seasoned ultra fine ground beef that has been overcooked Yuck My wife ordered the Ayib Bemitmita grated cottage cheese and spices and this was not served until well into the main course and was boringnnThe main course was a sampling of a Doro Tibs chiken dish a Tana Tibs Lamb dish Ye ater Kik Alicha split peas and Misir Wot lentils These were served on top of a large serving of Injera In order to preference the split peas were in fact quick enjoyable the lentils decent by less interesting The two meat dishes were frankly boring No spice no heat served cool and the meat was tough A total strikeout in our opinionnnI am sure that Ethiopian food must be much more interesting than this however keep in mind that this was our first tasting of this regional cuisine I would rate this as starts but given our inexperience bumped to stars to give the restaurant the benefit of the doubt