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New Years Eve 2012 Bash!

Admin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:17:37 +0000

Join us on December 31st – New Years Eve 2012 for our biggest holiday party yet. Check our facebook page for more updates about this event.

DJ Dice will be spinning all your favorites all night long.

Now Featuring our Summer Three Course Dinner!

Admin — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 13:31:02 +0000

Awaken your senses with the exotic flavors of Africa as you sample our new 3 course dinner cooking adventures. We have created an exciting combination of foods from all four corners of Africa for you to sample. Simply pick any Appetizer and then pick from one of our regional combos and end your meal with our wonderful sweet endings.

Start with our Appetizer selection

piri piri prawns
spicy tuna roll
veggie Roll
veggie Sambusa
lamb Sambusa
piri piri chicken spring roll
spicy crawfish roll
soft shell crab roll
lamb kebabs

Then choose from one of our various entrée combos. Combos are for two people
t0 share and the second regional combo is vegan.

East Combo
a sampling of our most popular ethiopian dishes tuna kitfo, beef tibs, doro wott and veggies served family style for two

East Vegetarian Combo
a sampling of all our east african veggie dishes served family style on injera.

West Combo
curried goat, chicken yassa & fish groundnut stew served with red rice family style for two.

West Vegetarian Combo
groundnut stew, black eye peas, fried yucca and plantains served with red rice

North Combo
lamb & chicken kebab, fish & olive harissa served with couscous and usually served family style for two

North Vegetarian Combo
veggie tagine, fava beans, marinated cauliflower and beet salad accompanied with couscous and served family style for two.

South Combo
seafood bobotie, piri piri chicken, boerewors sausage accompanied by rice and sambal served family style for two.

South Vegetarian Combo
tofu massala, zucchini cakes, greens in peanut sauce and curried corn served family style for two.

Deserts

milk tart
chilled rice pudding with coconut bananas & cardamom mangoes
mango cobbler

Cooking Classes

Admin — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:46:43 +0000

How many times have you been to a restaurant and said, “That was delicious — if only I knew how to make that myself…”? Pan Africa now brings you all that tasty knowledge with a savory cooking experience guaranteed to please the foodies in your life. You get a three-hour African cooking class with the head chef of Pan Africa Restaurant & Bar at The Pike Place Market — and a flavorful full dinner . Learn the secrets of preparing Ethiopian cuisine, from fragrant berbere spice mixtures to injera, that super-stretchy flatbread you’ll wrap your doro wot in. You’ll even get the sweet-and-lowdown on honey wine. Get your hands on this deal before the kitchen’s closed.

Ethiopian Cooking Classes
This is a basic Ethiopian cooking class covering the staples of everyday Ethiopian cooking. Dishes covered in this class are Doro Wot, Sambusa, Gomen, Beef Tibs, Timatim Selata & Misser Wot.

Ethiopian Vegetarian Cooking Classes
This is a basic Ethiopian vegetarian cooking class covering the staple vegetarian dishes in everyday Ethiopian cooking. All dishes are Vegan Dishes covered in this class are are Shiro Wot, Timatim Selata, Gomen, Yatakilt Wot & Misser Wot.

Jambo!

Admin — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:58:03 +0000

An important announcement for all the Pan Africa addicts out there,

We are back! Come and see our new menu. We look forward to having you dine with us. Our telephones will be out of service until the second week of April. We are having a big grand Re-Opening part this Saturday. If you are on Facebook, please follow this link to the event page.

Seattle’s Taste of Africa in Pike Place Market!

Admin — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 18:44:06 +0000

The Scene
Bright tiled counters and big windows keep things summery, even on cloudy afternoons, while carved wooden chairs supply a cozy seat for a leisurely lunch break. Thanks to kind service and friends of the owner stopping in, this is the sort of welcoming neighborhood cafe Pike Place Market specializes in, outside of the tourist season.

Pan Africa Market – City’s Best

Admin — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 18:18:14 +0000

Restaurants serving African food often focus on a single region, but Pan Africa is honestly named, making this one-stop shopping for titillating your taste buds and expanding your horizons. Since eating with your fingers in public is rarely encouraged in adults, the flavorful Ethiopian vegetable and meat combo platters are favorites, served with injera (the spongy, flat, perforated bread made from tef) to transport bites to your mouth. Also try groundnut (peanut) stew with chicken, carrots and yams, a West African staple. Hailing from Senegal, chicken yassa, fragrant with lemon, olives and onion, has an essence of the Mediterranean, as does chicken with dates and apricots. Even southern Africa is represented in a seafood stew originating in Madagascar. Some dishes rotate, so come often to check out the latest. Regulars come and go in this cheery room, more like it’s a neighborhood haunt, not situated in the bustling heart of downtown, and staff is genuinely warm, even on gray days during the frenzied lunch rush. If all seats are taken, settle for takeout. Either way, there will almost certainly be enough for a second meal. — Ginny Morey

100 Favorite Restaurants 2004

Admin — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:05:30 +0000

Seattle Weekly :: You won’t find a warmer, more tantalizing midpriced restaurant in Pike Place Market. Pan Africa provides the grab-and-go Market scene with a much-needed haven, a place where you can eat West African fare with your hands and bask in the earthy heat of the food and the music. And the place lives up to its name: Though the Ethiopian combo platters are excellent, Pan Africa ventures far beyond that cuisine; this ambitious little eatery also serves up seafood stews from Madagascar and chicken dishes from Senegal.

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Pan Africa keeps you coming back for more

Admin — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:01:10 +0000

Seattle Weekly :: At lunchtime, a rich aroma tantalizes you; mouth watering, you look at the menu and find a dozen dishes half from Ethiopia, the other half from assorted West African countries with names that make your mouth dance when you say them: doro wott, yassa, and piripiri. Add the slow burn of succulent spices, meats, and root vegetables cooked just right, and operatic world beat music in the background, and the stage is set for culinary trysting.

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