LEO's Eats with Louisville HotBytes.com"Don't eat with your fingers!" This nugget of parental advice is known to just about every child. It's an integral part of the process of growing up with good manners.
From time to time, though, there's a certain pleasure in casting aside knives and forks and diving right in. This casual approach works with fried chicken, for instance. Or the appropriately named finger sandwiches. Or a rack of juicy ribs. Just bring plenty of napkins.
Aficionados of ethnic food know another finger-food delight that, with a bit of experience, can actually be consumed with a degree of delicacy in a white-tablecloth setting. We're talking about Ethiopian fare, an East African alternative that may currently be enjoyed at two local eateries.
Both Blue Nile and Queen of Sheba serve Ethiopian food in the traditional style, all dishes spread out on a large, communal plate lined with thin, spongy injera bread, with more of the bread served in rolls that replace our Western knives and forks.
Queen of Sheba
2804 Taylorsville Road
459-6301
Robin Garr's rating: 84 points
Blue Nile Ethiopian Restaurant
558 S. Fifth St.
625-7400
Robin Garr's rating: 77 points
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