Restaurants & Food
Makina Cafe
Long Island City, NY
Makina Cafe serves Ethiopian and Eritrean food from a truck based in Long Island City, with tibs, injera and sides such as misir and tikel gomen on the menu.
Owner Eden Gebre Egziabher was born and raised in Ethiopia to parents of Eritrean origin, came to the United States as a teenager and settled in Queens.
The business has cooked for frontline hospital workers in Flushing and donates food to the Astoria community fridge.
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How we sourced this
Listed from a curated guide published by New York City Tourism + Conventions (https://www.nyctourism.com/articles/shop-queens-small-businesses-and-give-back/) and from public information on the business's own website, both checked on 18 August 2026.
- Black-owned — · source
One of the six businesses in New York City Tourism + Conventions' guide to "BIPOC-owned shops" in Queens. The guide says owner Eden Gebre Egziabher was "born and raised in Ethiopia to parents of Eritrean origin."
- Women-owned — · source
The same guide says Egziabher "owns and runs Makina Cafe."
- Immigrant-owned — · source
The same guide says Egziabher fled Ethiopia after war broke out and came to the United States as a teenager.
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