Afro Deli ★ 4.3
Abdirahman Kahin's Afro Deli on Washington Avenue SE has run East African street food near the U of M Stadium Village since 2011. Located in Northeast.
OrderEast African beef sambusas
East African sambusa is the Twin Cities' defining street snack: triangle-folded pastry filled with cumin-spiced beef, scallion and green chili, deep-fried to a glassy crackle.
The Twin Cities hold the largest Somali population in the United States, roughly 80,000 in the metro, anchored in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood west of downtown Minneapolis since the early 1990s. Sambusas, the East African cousin of the South Asian samosa, came with the diaspora and now sit at every Somali deli counter in the city. Afro Deli, opened on Riverside Avenue in 2010, set the bar for the Twin Cities version: thinner pastry than the South Asian samosa, beef seasoned with cumin and cardamom, served with green hot sauce. Quruxlow on East Lake Street runs a Halal kitchen of the same caliber.
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Quruxlow Restaurant ★ 4.3
Quruxlow on East Lake Street has run a Somali dining room in South Minneapolis since the late 2010s. Order the goat suqaar with rice and a side of sambusas.
OrderGoat suqaar with rice and a side of sambusas.
TipCasual dining; lunch and dinner. The patio in summer; popular in the Somali community.
Learn to cook it, or eat it with a guide
Sambusa makes more sense with someone from Minneapolis explaining it. These are the classes and tours we have checked, with booking links.
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