International Review Day

I don’t usually take requests for my blog, but I am happy to hear readers ideas. Yesterday my friend Dave asked for more reviews and it just so happens that I have tow of them today. Russ called this my international day of Durham.
The first review is for the movie, Victoria and Abdul. Technically I should call this International Triangle day since we saw the movie at the Silver Spot in Chapel Hill. If you like movies you will love the Silver Spot with its giant reserved leather seats and better than most movies food delivered to your seat. We must have chosen the retirement bus time to see the movie because most of the other patrons were contemporaries of Queen Victoria.  
The movie was wonderful and you can never go wrong with Dame Judi Dench as a royal, but just as Good as Izzy Izard as her good for nothing son and heir to the throne.

After the English, Scottish and Indian movie Russ and I threw Ethiopia into our international mix with a dinner at Goorsha on Main Street across from Brightleaf Square.  
I have loved Ethiopian food since I first had it in Adams Morgan in the early eighties. At that time Ethiopia was having a terrible multi-year drought and food there was very scarce so Americans were confused about what an Ethiopian restaurant would serve since all they knew about Ethiopia was the famine. Stupid Americans, the Ethiopian restaurants in DC got their food from Sysco like all the other restaurants.

Goorsha is a very happy place with seating outside that doubles the capacity of the small restaurant. Russ and I ate at the bar which was very helpful since we were sharing a chicken and meat combination dinner. You eat Ethiopian food with your hands, scooping up the meat or vegetables with a piece of spongy bread/pancake called injera. The food is spicy, but not hot. My favorite item was the doro wot which was a chicken leg and a hard boiled egg cooked in spices.  
Sharing a plate was the way to go and we cold hardly finish it and had no need for any appetizers or salads. The staff was very friendly and the prices were low so it was a win/win/win in my book.
I doubt I am going to try and recreate Ethiopian Dinner at home because making the injera is more work than I want, but I can see a soup in my future from the flavors of the lentils we had tonight.