Selam Restaurant & Lounge

My wife and I fell in love with Ethiopian food while living in Windsor — World Marathon Ethiopian Restaurant is amazing. Since moving to Hamilton, we've been looking for a restaurant in the Golden Horseshoe that can match the amazing flavours and experience of Marathon without much luck...until now. Selma Restaurant & Lounge serves amazing Ethiopian and Eritrean food. The tsebhi, timtimo, shiro and tibs are all incredibly flavourful and offer range of textures that make each bit exciting. The injera was light and tasty. The restaurant itself is warm and inviting, and the comforting smell of incense hangs in the air. Service was friendly, helpful and attentive. The food arrived quickly and exceeded our expecatsion. We will be back.

December 6, 2024 on Google

Great service with the waitress being super helpful in figuring out what dishes would appeal to us, great atmosphere with really exotic furnishings from curtains to carpets, and best of all very reasonably priced. I recommend the kitfo, beef tibs and okra. Brought a party of 6 hear and everyone enjoyed

October 20, 2024 on Google

This place was something ethereal, great music and mood lighting! We got the vegan platter, and it was good enough for 4 ⭐️⭐️I also got the cranberry juice

October 7, 2024 on Google

One of the best Ethiopian places! Lovely team and delicious food. It was recommended to me by many people and I recommend it to anyone who’s looking for nourishing Ethiopian food.

September 29, 2024 on Google

Selam is an Ethiopian restaurant that was suggested to me by an Ethiopian friend. The Selam’s Platter is a great option to try different traditional dishes and share. You can order it for one, two or three people. It includes Beef and Chicken Tibs plus three additional vegan plates. We had the traditional Injera (gluten free) and it is the perfect side to have with this succulent platter. The ambience it’s also a pretty nice compliment to the food. The decoration makes you feel like you really are in Ethiopia. The service is very good as well. If you are in Toronto and you’d like to try Ethiopian food, I totally recommend you this place

September 28, 2024 on Google

We were visiting Toronto for a short trip and wanted to explore various cuisine. It was time for Ethiopian food. The spice was balanced and was not too spicy. But I was bit disappointed with Kategha because I usually have had dry and crispy but this was completely different but everything was amazing and will definitely recommend to my local friend.

July 20, 2024 on Google

Cozy little Ethiopian restaurant in Toronto. Great atmosphere which is true to Ethiopian heritage and culture. They burn incenses which smell heavenly and make the restaurant smells so incredible. The food is great. Some items are better than others but overall very good quality food. I experienced many new flavours here. Portions are above average. Injera is fresh and delicious. Service was amazing. Rosa took care of our table and gave us her recommendations and we enjoyed them all. My favourite was her Majesty, and also the appetizer with clarified herb butter and injera which was spicy and tasty. Overall a great experience and as a first timer in Ethiopian cuisine, I enjoyed it all. Don’t forget to order their delicious coffee which comes with popcorn. You need to have 3 coffee cups to abide by traditional Ethiopian culture as the third cup brings prosperity to your life. Just a fun thing I learnt. Enjoy.

March 6, 2024 on Google

It would have been perfect if only the service was up there to match the food. The servers were polite and a pleasure to speak with, but all the long wait times were just unacceptable. It was good that we were sitting in a spot closest to the bar, at least it sort of made it easy to spot us whenever we call for service. I can only imagine how hard it could be for those sitting way out at the back. We had to call for attention several times to follow up on our requests for a glass of water and our dessert. For our order of cheesecake, we followed up at least 2 times (maybe more) but later ended up with a server coming back to mention that it was no longer available. I would have also appreciated it if they were a lot more transparent with everything. They should have mentioned if requests for injera costs more and by how much. The final bill amount was just a total they gave you shown in the machine. It would have been only proper to give a breakdown of all items listed to just double check if calculations were correctly done. The saving grace was that the food served was such a treat. I got the Ethiopian dining experience I came for. I especially loved the chewiness of the lamb that came with the Selam platter, and the people I dined with have good comments about the mushrooms, which were a part of the veggie options of the platter.

January 21, 2024 on Google