Mostly known as a friendly neighborhood dive bar, Club Waziema also serves solid Ethiopian food — including an all-you-can-eat veggie combo. (Thien Pham)

You wouldn’t think Club Waziema even serves food .

We rolled up to the ancient Divisadero Street watering hole at a little past nine o’clock on a Friday night, drawn by Waziema’s reputation as San Francisco’s best and only Ethiopian dive bar . Inside the crowded, dimly lit room, the jukebox blared the opening chords of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” while a gaggle of half-tipsy twentysomethings ordered “whatever red wine” and three vodka cranberries at the long, curved bar. (“Perfect order,” the bartender quipped.)

The place has that homey, lived-in quality that all the best dive bars have, with its gorgeous, red-velvet damask wall

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