[honkhonkpants]

Well you got me on the piano bars but as far as Ethiopian food goes there are dozens in my relatively walkable city and I just spot-checked the first car-choked blasted expanse that came to mind (Phoenix) and there are only five in a much larger metro area.

If I was an Ethiopian restaurant owner would I prefer a restaurant in a dense neighborhood with five families living in apartments right on top of me, or would I prefer to be in a strip mall at the corner of an American suburb with nobody in walking distance and only a few hundred families within a mile? I know which one I'd want.

[prodigal_erik]

Odd, are you in a destination for Ethiopian immigrants? I would have expected something more like the single restaurant serving the entire Napa valley. Most people don't even know Ethiopia has a cuisine, much less seek it out.

[honkhonkpants]

Yes we have many Ethiopian and Eritrean immigrants in Oakland and Berkeley.