Safari Restaurant

This is an interesting little place. If it looks closed press on. Many times I have been here and the lights have been off.

You might feel a bit out of place here but ignore that part of your brain and just have a good time. Most of the clients are Somalian taxi drivers. There is an extreme sense of community here. Many times I have been served by other customers.

The food here is simple but everything is done just right. The lamb is tender and has great flavor. The greens are to die for. They are not cooked to oblivion and still have some crunch let in them.

Everything goes great with the hot sauce. Ask for extra.

With your meal you will get an option of rice or spaghetti. I like the rice better but the spaghetti certainly wins eclectic points.

If you want a sweet chai like hot drink ask for the tea after your meal.

Any time I have been here it has been a flat 10 dollars. I love simplicity.

The more I think about the fantastic meal I had here, the more I like it. I'm a big proponent of 'one big happy'- where friends become your family. I don't mean it in a creepy sense, but in a way that shows you care. The people fixing the food here, obviously care, and we cared about the food, and each other! I love family style meals also, and that's what we had- a flatbread, goat, spaghetti, rice, veggies, chicken and fish! I tasted everything and found it delightful, and the tea at the end was the capper. I couldn't have asked for a better experience, and I want to definitely go back and take my 1st, and 2nd, and 3rd families also!

The Yelp Indianapolis International Supper Club had a great visit to Safari.  The owners are Somali immigrants who were observing Ramadan at the time, so we didn't arrive for dinner until 9:00.  The owners had worked with our fabulous YIISC coordinators to prepare a meal for us rather than having us order off a menu.  

We had a huge meal with a lot of different dishes.  The centerpiece was a huge platter of goat.  I'm actuallly not a fan of goat, but I did try a taste (didn't want to miss anything) and the herbs in the meat were heavenly.  We had a great chicken dish with vegetables, more veggies in their own dish, spaghetti noodles with something hard to describe--not at all substantial enough to be a sauce, but more just ingredients clinging to the noodles.  That was actually my favorite.  And there was a unique kind of unlevened bread.  It was slightly sweet and chewy.  Then we topped off the meal with some chai-like tea.

The whole meal was delicious and satisfying.  The owners could not have been nicer.  The building is nothing special, just a basic room with tables and chairs, and a window to the kitchen where you order and collect the food.  But if it was a fancy restaurant, I wouldn't have expected it to be authentic.  I love whole-in-the-wall places, especially when it comes to international fare.  Check out Safari, you won't regret it!