• Godjo

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Vegan-friendly
Lacto
Beer/Wine
Ethiopian
Non-veg

Serves meat, vegan options available. Cozy little Ethiopian restaurant in the Latin Quarter. Offers a separate vegetarian menu, although it seems to list fish under that menu. Has a traditional vegetarian/vegan platter for four, with extra injera bread. Also has good inexpensive Ethiopian beer. Seems to get quite crowded around 9pm. Open Mon-Sun 18:00-23:30, Tue-Sun 12:00-16:00.


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10 Reviews

First Review by vegetalien

todusan

Points +138

Vegan
25 Feb 2024

le personnel ne connaît pas bien le véganisme

Il n’était pas clair si le plat végétarien contenait du beurre, et le plat végétarien ainsi que les plats de viande étaient servis ensemble sur la même injera. Cela signifiait que la sauce de viande et les plats végétariens se touchaient. Il faut spécifiquement demander s’ils doivent être servis séparément. Bien que le restaurant était agréable et décoré, il y a d’autres restaurants éthiopiens vegan-friendly qui servent également de délicieux plats à Paris!

andrealmeid

Points +70

Vegan
04 Oct 2023

Lovely restaurant

This small restaurant has a good atmosphere, with a lot of decorations and low light. Staff was helpful and they have a section of vegetarian dishes (but one of them has fish). It was my first time eating Ethiopian food and I never saw chickpeas like that.

JoonasH

Points +50

Vegan
28 Sep 2023

Excellent place to eat

Had the vegeterian specialty as recommended. Was splendid all three of us enjoyed it to the fullest.

Updated from previous review on 2023-09-28

Pros: Great use of spices, Excellent taste, Cozy ambience

drlj

Points +610

Vegan
24 Apr 2022

Excellent value tasty Ethiopian

This is a gorgeous cosy Ethiopian restaurant. It was full with a queue when we arrived but totally worth the wait. I recommend the veg special which comes with multiple lentil & veg dishes and salad and plenty of injera (fermented flatbread). It is great value, the staff are friendly and it has a lovely atmosphere. They do serve meat, and there is no English menu so best to ask/stick to the veg selection meal.

Pros: Delicious food , Good value , Good place to go with non vegans

Cons: Serves meat, Menu not the easiest to understand but staff help

Aurele_

Points +130

Vegan
16 Aug 2020

Love their food

Cosy affordable and friendly - almost impossible on that area. The veg option is so tasty. I could eat that every day. The fruit salad is amazing. I just live them.

Pros: Great location, Tasty food, Friendly owners

Cons: Not fully veg

cookaloris

Points +229

Vegetarian
12 Aug 2019

Tasty Ethiopian at a hole in the wall restaurant

We dined here with our omni friends. They had the non veg sampler, and we had the veg sampler. I was told that they were not serving fish that night so all of the veg dishes were completely veg. No butter, etc. The meal was flavorful and fresh. If you are new to Ethiopian food I recommend ordering the sampler. Two cooks bumping into each other in the tiniest kitchen in the back, but the food came promptly. It is true it is a hole in the wall. But a great experience if you want to try something different. I noticed the flavors were just slightly different from the Ethiopian food I am accustomed to in the United States.

Updated from previous review on 2019-08-12

Pros: Multiple vegan options

happyvegoo

Points +76

Vegan
22 Apr 2017

Small, genuine restaurant

If you don't understand french I recommend looking up their menu on their website before going there as the staff had trouble explaining what the dished contained. They were however very helpful and managed to explain what dished were vegan.

I ordered my vegan dish and my mother ordered her non-vegan dish and they were served on the same platter, so that some of my lentils touched her meat. I gave the "meaty" part to my mother but if you aren't okay with that you might want to clarify that you want separate plates.

The food was VERY tasty and the restaurant as a whole felt like a unique experience. The interior was really beautiful and they hade a playlist which really played well in to the atmosphere. It was really crowded though so if you don´t like to sit close to people (like really close) you shouldn't´t go during the most popular hours.

Pros: Unique delicious food, Amazing atmosphere

Cons: Meat and vegan dish on the same plate, Expensive sparkling water

Nancy Cadet

Points +876

Vegan
14 Aug 2016

Vegan- friendly and delicious

We visited Godjo, near the Pantheon, with a friend and ordered a vegetarian platter for 3 , along with carafe of rosé wine and a beer. The meal was served promptly , with generous sides of injera and we enjoyed it immensely: spicy brown lentils , yellow split peas, spinach , cabbage , lettuce and tomato , mildly spiced lentils. Definitely a satisfying and tasty meal and an option that was clearly vegan.

We had a bit of trouble making the phone reservation & ordering in French ; perhaps English would have been easier for the waitstaff , but it all worked out. I would advise checking a Google map or detailed plan de Paris to locate this destination before setting out. The street is a small one off rue de la Montagne Ste Genevieve, not far from the popular rue Mouffetard, rue Monge & rue des Ecoles.

Pros: Vegan option , Generous portions, Quick service

Cons: Hard to find

bisaloo

Points +68

Vegan
26 Jun 2016

Could be better

Let's start with the objective stuff:

This restaurant offers some vegetarian Ethiopian dishes based on chickpeas, lentils, beans, spinach, etc. It is served in what I think is the Ethiopian way: you get a big plate for two and the food is on some kind of tortilla/crepe. They also bring you 2/3 additional crepes you can use to eat with (I don't think you're supposed to use forks and knives. I can't even remember if we had those.). The full menu with prices is in the pictures or on their website. The food was quite good.

Now, I am not sure I would call this restaurant veg' friendly. You can eat vegetarian but it is not enough to be called veg' friendly in my opinion. Maybe it is me asking too much but as others pointed out, they list fish-based dishes under vegetarian dishes. I also had some pieces of meat in my meal. I don't mind that much but in my opinion, it shows a lack of consideration.

TL;DR: if you wish to try Ethiopian cuisine, go ahead. It is good and filling. But it is not the best veg* restaurant you can find in the neighborhood.

Oh, and also, the place is quite small so if you wish to eat there, you should make a reservation on their website. I think they also have another level for large groups.

Pros: discover Ethiopian cuisine

Cons: not much attention payed to veg* customers

vegetalien

Points +79

Vegan
01 May 2011

Delicious!

We went to Godjo a few weeks ago, and will be going back this week. We got a vegetarian platter which was entirely vegan,* and which was absolutely fantastic. I began to think a while back that I wouldn't be able to find vegetarian Ethiopian food that rivaled my favorite Ethiopian restaurant back in the states (which was entirely vegan), but Godjo comes quite close. You get a large amount of food, all of which is extremely flavorful, and they give you more than enough bread to eat it with. They also have great spiced tea. I did notice that they list "poisson" under the vegetarian menu, so I just asked the waiter for the vegetarian platter "sans poisson," and he seemed just fine with that. It gets quite cramped, especially if you get seated in their (very cozy) basement, but I think that makes it quite fun. It was quite full when we went on a Thursday night (I think we arrived at 7 or 7:30--early by French standards), and was *very* full when we left around 9pm, so reservations might be a good idea. They do serve alcohol. The waitstaff was very friendly and helpful (they seemed to speak some English).

It's reasonably priced (perhaps 15-20 euros per person, plus drinks), given the quality and quantity of the food.

*I recently found out that they put butter in nearly everything. Too bad.

Updated from previous review on Monday June 28, 2010

Pros: Wonderful food, Friendly, Cute

Cons: Fish listed as vegetarian, Not much vegan food




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