The Genet Cafe in Barnet

This is one of the most delicious Ethiopian food I had around London. Everything I selected was so well done and tasty! Only think I’d say is it would be good if they add option to order more Enjera for online orders Yum yum thank you mum! (Edited on 14/Nov/2024 for second order and additional review below…) Consistent and delicious! You can never go wrong with quanta firfir and awaze tibs! Also had doro, equally yummy. Added one more picture with this review

Veggies were really tasty and you could differentiate individual flavours. Lamb though was gamey at times and sinewy, which is a bit of a shame. Injera was nice, its hard to describe it but its like a thin, sour, pancake of sorts, that soaks up curries and sauces well while giving them some tang.

A local gem. Like eating in a family living room, with delicious food prepared with love. BYOB.

Absolutely diabolical. Ordered £45 worth of food even the dog would not eat it.

Best, Ethipean food I've ever had, so much flavour, beautiful atmosphere. Really feels like an amazing home cooked experience. Lots of love goes into that food you can tell.

Great vegan options and amazing food

What a genuinely delicious restaurant. They probably have the best Vegan food in North London. The honey drink/wine is highly recommended. Great place to bring the family and a very welcoming cosy atmosphere.

What a genuinely delicious restaurant. They probably have the best Vegan food in North London. The honey drink/wine is highly recommended. Great place to bring the family and a very welcoming cosy atmosphere.

Best Ethiopian food I've ever had

Best Ethiopian food I've ever had

Our visit to the restaurant was overshadowed by discriminatory treatment from the owner towards us due to tribal differences. It's disappointing to encounter such behavior in a place that should celebrate diversity. We hope for a change in attitude and a more inclusive atmosphere for all patrons.

we were craving for enjera, so I took my friend there. The way the owner looked at us and her rude behavior made us uncomfortable. When we asked her about the toilet, her response was dismissive, saying there should be one. We couldn’t tolerate her disrespectful attitude, so we decided to leave the restaurant while she was preparing our food.

The best Ethiopian food we've ever had. Thank you.

can i get your social media plz?

This is the best Ethiopian food I've had in London, and I've had a LOT! Lovely staff and very welcoming vibe. Highly recommend. So tasty!! Only spent over £20 because we were celebrating a bday so lots of wine :)

Charming little place, best Ethiopian food ive have possibly ever 🩷

Healthy and tasty food. Many vegan options. Very nice owner! Would love to come back!

2nd time I have been here & I can't speak highly of the food & service enough! Such a lovely place, with great service & the food is amazing!!!

The owner of the place is not welcoming and dismissive. The food is good but paid over 50 pounds for two people. I felt robbed. I tried to ask her about the menu and just let me do a wrong over order that was obviously two much for two people. The food was good but not 55 pounds

Lovely food, lovely owner and nice traditional Ethiopian music and atmosphere. We had a nice conversation about the traditional Ethiopian way of cooking!

Absolutely delicious food, fairly priced, delivered with warmth.

The Ethiopian food served here is outstanding and the atmosphere is welcoming. Whether you have eaten injera many times before, or if you haven't heard of it, you should definitely taste the food here. Genet and her chefs have mastered the art of Ethiopian cuisine and I definitely recommend visiting her restaurant.

Words can't describe how deliciously lip smacking this food is. And don't even get me started on the service, how yummy the food is and how quick it was served. Genet deserves a certificate. As an injara lover and taster, it is like nothing I have tasted before. If you want an introduction to Ethiopian food, you should DEFINITELY go to this restaurant.

Didn't even finish the phone conversation and the end the call before I could say what I wanted

My first time trying Etopian food and was fantastic, ordered the Genet special for 2 with my GF and we both loved it, owners were also nice and helpful with their suggestions.

So delicious Ethiopian 🇪🇹 meal and lovely hospitality

Genet serves very authentic (it seems) and delicious Ethiopian food in Tottenham. Everything seems to be made by the one lady that runs the show, cooking and serving. She's not only a great cook but also very nice to talk to if you'd like to get some tips about what to eat. I'd highly recommend the mixed platter for the group. Bear in mind that no alcohol is served there in case you'd like to accompany your food with a beer. A selection of soft drinks is available tho.

The food really was really nice. The waitress was very friendly and helpful. If you order the Ethiopian coffee then order it while you have your food ha it takes a will to come. One little issue with this restaurant there is no toilet

The vegetarian menu is delicious at Genet.

It's a lovely, comfy place to try Ethiopian food. We were completely new to Ethiopian food and the owner recommended dishes to us based on our preferences. This place is definitely vegan-friendly and also suitable for people who like gluten-free food. It's also got a great selection of meat options. Things to note before you head over: 1. If you're new to Ethiopian food (like us), you may find injera (the bread you use to eat your dishes with) too sour for your liking. It is healthy, but if the sourness isn't for you, get strong-tasting dishes that can mask the sourness. We got a spicy mutton dish that worked well for this. 2. They don't do small individual plates - my picture below is the 3 dishes we ordered put on one platter. It makes for a nice communal dining experience. I really enjoyed the mutton dishes. All in all, I definitely enjoyed it - it was new to me and I came away with a greater appreciation for Ethiopian food.

Great food. The honey drink was delicious and potent.

Genet is lovely and the food is fantastic. It's the best Ethiopian restaurant in London in my books!

Delicious food. Fun to share and portions are more than enough to roll back home instead of walking.

The food is delicious! Vegetable plate wow.

Genet's is such an amazing restaurant! When you enter, she welcomes you as though you are her own family. The food is absolutely delicious and comes in fantastically sized portions. You'll leave feeling completely fed and delighted with the experience at Genet's!

Great place, food smells and tastes delicious!

Amazing freshly cooked food. Tried this first in South Africa, superb dishes and such friendly staff.

Wonderful food, served with love and at a very reasonable price. Traditional vegetarian and meat dishes

Delicious food, some of the tastiest Ethiopian food I’ve had in London. I had the Awaze Tibs. Really buttery & yummy. I tried the Tej (honey wine) which was fermented and authentic too. Friendly service with a home cooked, welcoming feel.

We ordered the Genet sharer, which was delicious and we both ate til no more could be eaten. We were made to feel very welcome and I'd highly recommend the Genet cafe to anyone.

Two of use ordered the Genet special/sharer on a Friday evening and thoroughly enjoyed the food. Worked out to ~£15 each and we both ate until we could eat no more. We were made to feel welcome and I would recommend.

The flavours used, the variety and quality of ingredients is just incredibly tasty. Amazing place

Fantastic food, what a smash hit, delicious veg! And lovely service from the fantastic host. The music is great too

Simply delicious! A gem in the heart of Tottenham. Friendly service, really cosy environment, and probably the best Ethiopian I've ever had.

Impeccable food, lovely service. You won't be disappointed

Just back from this temple of Ethiopian cuisine in London Really well impressed with the authentic vibe. The place has people from different horizons sharing meals. The family is just so warm and the food so delicious I loved having the common big plate to share with all The lamb was yummy and the spices experrly fused Great evening with friends First time but definitely not my last time

This place is absolutely FANTASTIC. Great food in a friendly, welcoming, home environment. Prices are good, it's going to be a staple of mine from now on

Superb. Really friendly and what feels like authentic, home cooked Ethiopian food. Incredibly good value.

We order a food on just it they send us really bad Enjara ኦርደር አድርገን በጣም መጥፎ እንጀራ ነው የላኩልን እንዲህ አይደረገም

Great service and lovely authentic place

Beautiful food and really friendly staff! The lady who served us gave us free coffees and let us try some fresh bread. I would eat here again 100% , the flavours are incredible !

Back of Genet! Mild-mannered and low key hosting put us at ease in a modest setting the moment we sat down. Two of us are vegan and the third an omni and we opted for #3 for 3 people. Decent portions of seven varieties arrived on a generously sized sharing plate lined with injera [bread] which also included four individual rolled injera. I am a pie and always want Asian sized portions so I was delighted with the size of our order, even shared between three! But what is quantity without quality? Rest assured; the chef at The Genet has you covered, delivering wonderfully well-balanced flavours, beautifully seasoned, and although some varieties looked similar and shared some vegetable ingredients, they all tasted different with each offering something to please. This is not my part of town but well worth the trip. Exceptionally good food and the best Ethiopian I've had in a good while! Please keep doing what you're doing - I will be back!!

This place made my Sunday. The lady who runs it knows what she's doing - mind-blowing food, cozy ambiance, tasty coffee, and a genuinely welcoming smile.

Love her food. Authentic traditional cooking and very tasty!

The owner is very rude I’m never see this kind of restaurant in my life. I’m not recommend anyone

Very delicious doro wote, as my first Ethiopian dish try out it was good, quantity and price worthy and the owner Ma'Sha'Allah very nice

Home made food! I wanted to order it online via Just-It but they don’t deliver to my area. So I drove there🙂 The portions are very generous and the food is simply delicious! I’m a huge fan of food and I tried 4 different Ethiopian restaurants in London. Hands down - this one is on top. I’m coming back for more on a weekly basis now.

I never seen in my life how the owner is so rude, very disrespectful and not treated every one equally . It was my first time going to buy injera but I had bad experience. She made me to feel unworthy. I will never back again..

This place is so amazing! I often crave their delicious food. Please support this local gem

Have always ordered the vegetarian platter here and it is fantastic! Yesterday we ordered takeaway and it was ready quickly and tasted just as lovely as always, and was not overpackaged either. I now compare all Ethiopian food that I eat to Genet's.

I thought it was to dry and the beetroots in the vegetarian were really bad. Had to throw more than I ate :(

Always great food! Coming here weekly

Fabulous food and lovely couple who run it were so friendly and made great recommendations.

Fantastic food and just the most wonderful service. Will definitely be back!

Best Ethiopian & Eritrean Dish.

Absolute delicious and fantastic value. The two of us were served a mixed vegetarian platter for 25.99, which you can see in the photo below. It was huge and absolutely delicious. Every part of it was unusual, flavoursome and delicious. The waiter(/cook/owner?) was an absolutely delightful woman who did everything she could to help us and make us feel at home. We were the only people in there, but there should be queues out the door, it's honestly wonderful. It's BYOB as well! Couldn't recommend more highly.

Food is some of the best. Owner is incredibly rude and makes you feel like an inconvenience. Many other ethiopian restaurants within a mile that have comparable food and much better service

The food here was incredible! Worth every penny, it was so delicious and filling. Genet is a lovely person too!

Hard to find little gem at the bottom of a housing block, serving Ethiopean/eritrean food. So just to be aware, service is a little slow, but this is more than made up for by the very accommodating prices, and the BYOB policy (no corkage!). I would go for one of the larger meat or vegetarian platters (think I have asked for both on the same injeera!) as they give you a great introduction to this place. Highly recommended!

The food is always absolutely incredible, Genet is a genius cook. I always have the same thing, which is the mixed vegetarian dish and it never fails to delight. I've had Ethiopian in a few other places and they honestly haven't come close. Portions are generous, prices are very reasonable and I love the family and community atmosphere of the place. Staff (the kids) and regulars are very friendly and you might get to learn a bit about Ethiopian pop music, if they have the TV on the music channel. I usually hate TVs on while I'm eating but the fact that it's only Ethiopian channels really adds to the cultural experience and is good fun.

Often has her kids sat watching tv or doing their homework in the restaurant. And she can be a bit moody at times. Good food though.

Totally agree with the other reviews here. Our 1st try of Ethiopian cuisine and we couldn't stop eating! With my partner, we usually share a good conversation and alcohol with dinner. Not here .... we were both just focused on the food! A definite must-try!

Delicious Ethiopian food with a warm authentic aesthetic to match. 10/10 in Tottenham

First time going to an ethiopian resturant with my partner, was a good experience. Nice food.

I love the food and friendly atmosphere there. It's always top quality food, authentic Ethiopian. They have a great cardamon tea, too!

One of the best meals of my life! Would recommend to anyone and everyone

Wonderful food!! Lovely atmosphere!! Sweet lady cooking and serving us. Highly recommended!

Delicious!!! I know my Ethiopian food very well and this is up there, in the most unassuming part of the city, it deserves all the credit. Highly recommend it.

The food here is so good. I usually like to drink alcohol with a meal, but here you don't need to because the food makes you high during and after - the taste is that good. You have to eat it to believe it. Really amazing.

There was a large group of us and the platters that we ordered were even larger! Everyone loved the uniqueness of the food, with loads of flavours and of course that special Ethiopian bread to soak it all up with. The staff were attentive and went out of their way to help us. Very friendly and a definite one to revisit. Amazing low prices as well.

Great food, amazing hospitality

Best Ethiopian I've had so far (it's probably better in Ethiopia, I guess). The serving was massive, it's great value for money too. And somehow quite a quaint location even though it's at the base of a huge block of flats. Chef and the waiter were very nice.

I am obsessed with this place!!!! I've been with a couple of groups of friends on different occasions and everyone has loved it. Now my friends head there on their own regularly. This is by far the best Ethiopian I've ever had in my life. By far the best in London. My favourite is the vege shared dishes on the pancake. Please go here. You wont regret it.

This restaurant is just A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. It is unassuming and the focus is on the quality of the food delivered. The flavours are sensational, the staff are just so kind and lovely. I love the atmosphere...I felt I was part of a family. The other guests were also really laid back and were having a good time as well. We had the veggie plate for two....we couldn't walk straight after this feast...we were so full but content! :) Thank you so much for this experience, we will be back soon, keep up the good work, you guys are running this little gem the right way!

Public aren't my usual thing but when it comes to the best food I've ever eaten in a restaurant then it'd be rude not to share 😋. By recommendation we happened upon this unassuming Ethiopian place run by the chef and her husband who were gentlest loveliest people who somehow managed to pass on some sort of arcane wisdom through the medium of the tastiest, cleanest, inexplicably delicious and stratospherically gorgeous OK shut up Dan. 1) It's called Genet Restaurant. 2) It's at 4 Victoria rd, Seven Sisters 3) Go there 4) The vegetarian buffet thing for two. Yes.

One of the best places I've eaten in in London! So so delicious and great people making the food :) Thanks for the amazing lunch!

It is saying that opening at 11am on sunday but nobody wast there till 2pm. Slow service, food was ok, but could be better. Amazing enjera bred

Odlična hrana in prijazna gospodinja.

I don't often enjoy vegan food, but this was brilliant!

Wow! Super good food. Nothing more to add.

Two friends asked me to visit this restaurant with them. None of us had been before but my friends had heard of the restaurant from a third party and as they enjoyed Ethiopian food wanted to try it out. I'm not very adventurous so had reservations about eating a new cuisine. We went on a Thursday evening for dinner, about 7:30pm. When we arrived we were told that we had arrived during the fasting period so the restaurant could only serve vegan meals, we also found out that there was no alcohol licence but we could bring in alcohol for a small corking charge (there's an off licence opposite so we quickly grabbed a couple of drinks). The welcome was great and the staff (I think owner) very friendly. They helped us understand the menu and we opted for a large selection plate for three people. When the plate arrived it was huge, smelled and looked beautiful (see image). The host explained each item to us and was happy to answer any questions with a smile. The food was delicious - we ate everything and asked for more. I was really surprised - everything had a great flavour and lots of different flavours without being too overpowering with spice or heat. The fact it was all vegan - you would never have known! I can highly recommend this place and we will be going back... This restaurant is within a small shopping arcade by a social housing estate that doesn't have a great reputation - do not let this put you off! You won't regret it if you go - the decor is a bit tired but the place is clean, welcoming and friendly.

Superb vegan food, this is the best Ethiopian food I have had in the UK. Real home cooked meals with soul. Highly recommended

Superbly seasoned Ethiopian food served as a sharing platter. Not to be missed

Amazing food. Home cooked and fresh. We had the vegetarian combination and it was absolutely delicious and so varied. Definitely highly recommended.

Be prepared to eat with your hands!

Lovely food and proprietor, reasonable prices, unfussy and nice vibe. A great little spot.

Great little place... came in to see if they did takeaway and asked what they would recommend for two people. Friendly service, quickly prepared and most importantly tasty too! Will come back and dine in for sure.

Beautiful food, perfect for groups of friends. It will charm your heart to eat here as everything is lovingly handmade. Get the sharing plates and beware - the portions are HUGE. Also loads of fun as you can eat with your hands!

A wee bit pricey for the simple nature of it.

Great smell as you walk in the door and delicious authentic food!