The Souk

This store is THE place to find all things Ethiopian. They carry fresh injera– including gluten free, along with niter kibeh, and all the necessary spices for Ethiopian cooking. Visit the restaurant if you have no time to cook for yourself; Enat restaurant is the best place for vegan Ethiopian in all of Seattle.

Really like this little market. Great place to get Ethiopian supplies like injera and spices. Friendly staff. The building is a little worn down but it has a friendly staff. Great spice mixes. Lots of Lenten foods to try if you’re Orthodox. Great place to stock up for the fast.

We love Ethiopian food. A lot. When we are feeling creative and non-​lazy (not very often), we will visit the Souk for some cooking supplies. The store is small and unassuming. You can drive by it easily. It has a small parking lot (5 spots) that fills and empties rapidly as people dash in for their injera. I have an aversion to entering a place where I cannot see into their windows (covered with music posters, cigarette ads), but our friends at Enat (Ethiopian place a block away) told us this was the place they buy their supplies from.
When you’re here, you buy their lentils (tiny split red ones, medium orange ones, large yellow ones that I can never get to freaking cook properly despite hours of soaking and crockpot, grrr), spices (chai blend, cinnamon, yellow curry-​like, white crumbly thickener, spicy red stuff), and of course injera. A pack holds several large rounds and it’s always fresh and warm. How? But they always have it and people are always coming in to buy it for the week. They sell other items like canned tomatoes, honey, cookies, drinks, etc.
You will often find local people just chatting with the single cashier. It’s really a neighborhood joint and we like that. Plus, they are happy to answer our questions about food. :) Everyone is so nice.
Everything is so very cheap here. We’ve taken to using these spices in our regular cooking too!