Gluten-Free Food in Ascot Vale, Cooked to Restore You
Everything we serve is made from scratch in a kitchen with no wheat, no gluten and no refined sugar. Honest ingredients, slow-simmered broths, injera made from pure teff, and people who are glad you came.
Dine In, Take Away, or Celebrate Together
However you find us, you will be looked after.
Ascot Vale Dining Room
A warm room on Maribyrnong Road where food is shared, conversations run long, and first-timers are treated like regulars.
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Takeaway & Delivery
Freshly cooked and packed to travel. Order direct on our website for pickup, and your whole order goes to our kitchen and team instead of a delivery app. Prefer delivery? Find us on Uber Eats and DoorDash.
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Catering
Individual boxes for offices and schools, and shared feasts for parties, church and community events. Gluten-free, with vegan options in every package.
Request Catering QuoteOur Menu
Every dish is gluten-free and free of refined sugar, cooked to order with grass-fed beef, house-made bone broths, spiced ghee and 100% teff injera. New to Ethiopian food? Meals are served on injera, a soft, slightly tangy teff flatbread. Tear off a piece and use it to scoop up your food. Cutlery is always available.
House Signatures & Our Picks
Chef Curated
Sinq Vegan Platter (በያይነቱ)
Six stews and a fresh tomato salad on one injera: spicy red lentils, yellow split peas, green lentils, spinach, carrot & potato, and beetroot. Scratch cooked in vegetable stock and spiced oil.
Tibs (ጥብስ)
Ethiopia's favourite sautéed meat. Lean grass-fed beef ($27.14), lamb ($29.14) or goat ($30.14), sautéed hot with onion, jalapeño and tomato in spiced ghee and bone broth. Dry, saucy or extra saucy, and mild, berbere or awaze.
Vegan Kitchen
Fresh vegetable stock, spiced oil, served on 100% teff injera- Sinq Vegan Platter (በያይነቱ) OUR PICK $27.00
Six stews and fresh tomato salad on injera: spicy red lentils, yellow split peas, green lentils, spinach, carrot & potato, beetroot.
- Single Stew with Injera $19.00
Choose any one of the six vegan stews above, served on 100% teff injera.
- Classic Ful (ፉል) $18.90 / $24.90
Fava beans cooked down in doro sauce, olive oil, lemon, tomato, and onion. Regular or loaded (+yogurt, boiled egg, avocado, ghee).
- Smashed Tahini Ful $18.90 / $24.90
Fava beans crushed with tahini, lemon, and garlic, finished with olive oil. Regular or loaded.
- Firfir (ፍርፍር) From $21.00
Shredded injera tossed in our doro sauce with spiced ghee or olive oil. Vegan ($21), with tibs ($27), or with kuanta, Ethiopian dried beef ($30).
Meat & Seafood
Our beef is grass-fed, and everything is cooked fresh from scratch in bone broth & spiced ghee- Besiga OUR PICK $29.90
Grass-fed beef, or lamb or goat, cooked together with any vegan stew in bone broth and spiced ghee.
- Tibs (ጥብስ) From $27.14
Sautéed meat: grass-fed beef, lamb or goat, cooked hot with onion, jalapeño, tomato, bone broth and spiced ghee. Choose dry, saucy or extra saucy, and mild, berbere or awaze.
- Wot (ወጥ) in Doro Sauce $27.90
A classic slow-cooked Ethiopian stew. Chicken or goat simmered in our signature doro sauce with bone broth and spiced ghee.
- Butter Chicken $27.90
Tender chicken in a creamy, gently spiced sauce built on ghee and scratch chicken bone broth.
- Goat Soup (Goat Kikil) $27.90
Curry cut goat on the bone, simmered slowly in a golden broth with turmeric, ginger, garlic and green chilli. Served with 100% teff injera.
- Crispy Beef $35.00
400g of lean grass-fed beef fried crisp in ghee with onion and jalapeno. Awaze on the side.
- Whole Fried Barramundi (ዓሳ) $35.00
Marinated in lemon, garlic, and spice mix, fried whole. Served with house salad, awaze (red chilli paste) and kochkocha (green chilli relish).
Raw & Bold
Grass-fed topside minced per order- Kitfo (ክትፎ) $27.90
Ethiopian-style beef tartare. Grass-fed beef minced to order, served with warm spiced ghee and mitmita (hot chilli spice). Have it raw, medium or cooked. Katelo style with garlic, jalapeño and onion +$1, or dulet style with tripe +$3.
- Afagn $29.90
Finely minced beef cooked with garlic, ginger, kochkocha (green chilli relish) and spiced ghee. Choose hot, very hot or extra hot.
Kategna
Injera toasted until crisp, brushed with spiced ghee and berbere- The Original Kategna $12.00
Crisp injera with spiced ghee and berbere (red chilli spice). Can be made with olive oil. Add ground flaxseed for $1.
- Cheese Kategna $14.00
The original, topped with mozzarella, ayib (fresh, mild Ethiopian cheese) or both.
- Chicken Kategna $15.00
Original topped with shredded cheese and tender chicken.
- Smoked Salmon Kategna $16.00
Original topped with smoked salmon, fresh ayib cheese, and lemon.
Sides & Drinks
Free BYO (no corkage fee)- Extra Injera (100% teff, daily) $3.00
- Ayib (Fresh House Cheese) $5.00
- House Salad (Tomato, olive oil) $11.90
- Sinq Ginger Kombucha (house brewed, original or chilli) $7.00
- Spiced Ginger Tea (ዝንጅብል ሻይ) $4.00
- Cans & Bottles (Cold drinks) $4.00
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Coffee Ceremony (ቡና)$25.00Fresh roasted pot (2-5 people)
"Sinq is an Amharic word for the provisions you carry for the journey." • Cooked fresh from scratch • Dedicated gluten-free kitchen with no refined sugar.
The Traditional Way to Enjoy Your Meal
In Ethiopia, food is an act of shared warmth and community. Here is how to enjoy your dish like a local.
Eat with your right hand
No cutlery needed. Tear off a small piece of soft, spongy teff injera.
Pinch and scoop
Use the injera between your fingers to scoop up a tender piece of meat, sweet onion and a glossy coat of sauce.
Save the bottom injera
The injera underneath slowly drinks in the bone broth and spiced ghee. This soaked injera is traditionally cherished as the most delicious part of the dish.
Practise gursha
Feeding a bite to a friend or dining partner is a customary sign of honour, hospitality and affection.
Prefer a fork? Just ask. Cutlery is always available.
Read the Full GuideMeet Ephrem Solomon
"Driven by faith, fueled by innovation. Entrepreneur with purpose."
Ephrem started Sinq with one belief: a meal should leave you better than it found you. That means honest ingredients, a kitchen with nothing to hide, and the kind of welcome that makes people want to come back. His Ethiopian roots shaped how he cooks, but it is these values, more than any tradition, that guide every plate.
"True nourishment should restore you from the inside out and taste extraordinary. When ancient wisdom, purposeful ingredients, and hospitality unite on a plate, food becomes medicine."
Food That Gives Back More Than It Takes
We cook the way we believe food should be cooked: from scratch, with real ingredients, and with nothing to hide. These are the values behind every plate.
Restorative Food
Our injera is whole-grain teff and water, fermented slowly the old way. Our meat dishes simmer in bone broths we make ourselves. It is food that fills you up without weighing you down.
Natural Flavour
Our flavour comes from spices we roast in house, fresh garlic, ginger and herbs, and butter we spice ourselves. Our berbere and shiro are imported from one trusted, premium producer. No flavour enhancers, nothing artificial, no shortcuts.
A Transparent Kitchen
A window into our kitchen lets you see your meal being made. Ask us what is in any dish and we will tell you, right down to the oil we cook with and where our spices come from. Nothing is hidden, because there is nothing to hide.
Come Eat With Us
You will find us on Maribyrnong Road in Ascot Vale. Walk-ins are always welcome. For groups of four or more on Friday and Saturday nights, booking ahead is a good idea.
Ascot Vale VIC 3032, Melbourne
11:00 AM – 9:00 PM (All Day Dining)
Thursday – Sunday, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Street parking along Maribyrnong Road
Pull Up a Chair
Fresh injera, slow-cooked food and a warm welcome are waiting for you.
Questions About Our Food?
Honest answers about our food, our kitchen and how we cook.
Ask a QuestionYes. No wheat flour or gluten-containing ingredients come into our kitchen, and our injera is made only from teff flour and water. Many Ethiopian restaurants blend wheat into their injera to cut costs. We never will. We are working towards formal coeliac certification, so if you have a severe allergy, please talk to us when you order and we will take care of you.
A significant portion of our menu is naturally plant-based. Our Vegan Platter brings together six stews (spicy red lentils, yellow split peas, green lentils, spinach, carrot and potato, and beetroot) with a fresh tomato salad. Vegan stews are cooked in vegetable stock and prepared separately from our meat dishes, and kategna can be made with olive oil instead of ghee.
Walk-ins are always warmly welcomed. For Friday and Saturday dinner services or groups of four or more, we recommend reserving your table ahead of time through our online booking link to guarantee seating.
What Our Diners Say
★★★★★ 4.9 / 5 from 190+ Google reviews
Read all reviews on Google"Sinq stands out among Melbourne's Ethiopian restaurants. Their dishes are clearly made fresh from scratch, including the delicate injera and zesty ginger kombucha."
"This is a beautiful place with lovely people who go out of their way to make you feel at home… Great tucker and filling at a very reasonable price."
"Wow, incredible Ethiopian food. So fresh and delicious. Definitely a 10/10. I especially loved the spinach."
Come Hungry. Leave Looked After.
Come and taste 100% teff injera, freshly roasted spices and warm Ethiopian hospitality in Ascot Vale.