Eat with your fingers: World Marathon Ethiopian restaurant is a sensory delight.
It is a little known fact that some of the best restaurants are tiny holes in the wall that you have passed by without a second thought on your way to somewhere else. Marathon, located in downtown Windsor, falls into this category of culinary gems that are small on space but big on character. The decor is warm and inviting, the food presentation pretty as a picture but much more aromatic and flavourful, and, leaving no sense unstimulated, you eat it all with your fingers, using the spongey sourdough-like bread (called injera) to scoop up your aziffa or mesir wat or any number of the samplings of other dishes that arrive on your platter of choice. Truth be told, I've yet to meet a lentil dish I didn't like, but this is masterful stuff here. Also deserving of a mention is the authentic coffee ceremony, during which you get to actually see and smell the coffee beans being roasted. A bit of zen-inducing incense later, and the java is poured from a traditional clay pot into white cups - with sugar or without - which are then distributed to each participant in the ceremony. Fair warning, though, this ain't your mama's mild roast. All the better to enjoy the rest of your evening of good food and good company - with eyes wide open.