While U-PASSPORT encourages everyone to visit Pilsen and Greektown and Chinatown, most students have probably already experienced those cuisines before college.  For a truly unique experience, everyone should have Ethiopian food at least once.

Ethiopian food is served ‘family-style’ and generally eaten without silverware.  The platters (some are even vegetarian) are eaten with injera, a sort of bread/pancake/naan edible-utensil.  Most of the entrees are of the stew variety.

U-PASSPORT has only been to one of the very few Ethiopian restaurants in the city, Ethiopian Diamond.  Interestingly, all of the options in Chicago appear to be on the far north side…Rogers Park, Edgewater, even Evanston. Metromix has a listing of all of your options.  Ethiopian Diamond was great, and we hear good things about Addis Abeba.

USE YOUR U-PASS: Pick your spot and use Google Maps.  The Red Line is probably going to be your best friend on this trip.