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Best Kitfo in San Francisco

“Warm raw beef, spiced butter, mitmita. Ethiopia's tartare doesn't flinch — and neither should you.”

Kitfo

What the real thing tastes like

Freshly minced lean beef, warmed — never cooked — through spiced clarified butter, and seasoned with mitmita, a chilli blend hotter and floralier than berbere. Ordered tere (raw), leb leb (barely warmed), or fully cooked, with the Gurage people's ayib cheese and cooked greens to cool the palate. Freshness is the entire covenant.

655 voices, one story

Reviews are firm: order it raw or order something else — the cooked version is described as a different, lesser dish. The butter-warmed texture is what converts tartare sceptics, and trusted butchery is mentioned as often as flavour.

Order it here when it has

  • silken warmth
  • butter perfume
  • mitmita bloom
  • brave-order reward

Walk away when you see

  • raw-beef trust required
  • mitmita brings serious heat

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