Restaurants in Ethiopia
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Kaldi's Coffee
While lawyers may eventually kibosh Kaldi's Starbucks-like sign, logo, interior, uniforms and menu, thirsty expats dropping around Br14 for fabulous frappuccinos will ensure Kaldi's contagious coffee lives on.
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Unique Restaurant
Opposite the Asheton Hotel, this dark and understated little restaurant, serving cheap and tasty Ethiopian dishes, has received rave reviews from a number of readers.
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Lime Tree
Tuck into a pita stuffed with tabouleh or falafel, or savour a chicken coconut curry. Its creative juices are thirst slayers.
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Tomoca
Coffee is serious business at this old Italian Piazza café, where beans are roasted on-site.
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Hirut Restaurant
A cheery, authentic place to savour Ethiopian dishes as well as pasta and various grills. Sink your teeth into a superfilling kwanta firfir and knock it all down with a bottle of Gouder wine, if you're game. The dining room is cosy but the shady terrace is a sure winner. Service was a tad amateurish the day we popped in.
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Abinet Hotel
If you ask locals where the best place to eat is, they'll say Remhai. But if you ask them where they like to eat, they'll say Abinet. The spaghetti and the array of Ethiopian dishes are quite good. Be aware that restaurants tend to wrap things up early in Aksum, with most places being closed or out of food by 20:00.
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Tsega Cafe & Restaurant
This is another favourite of locals, they rave about the tibs - sliced lamb, pan fried in butter, garlic, onion and sometimes tomato. Omelettes and scrambled eggs are on offer as well. Be aware that restaurants tend to wrap things up early in Aksum, with most places being closed or out of food by 20:00.
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Café Abyssinia
Right in front of the hospital, this place serves as café, bar and restaurant. The Ethiopian and faranji fare is quite good, but you'll pay double what locals do. Be aware that restaurants tend to wrap things up early in Aksum, with most places being closed or out of food by 20:00.
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Serenade
Tucked up a dark cobblestone alley in eastern Piazza is this magnificent Mediterranean eatery. Peruse the creative menu, laden with succulent treats like braised lamb with caramelized onions, lentils, lemon and raisin orange couscous. There are vegetarian delights and divine desserts.
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Rose Cafe & Restaurant
The closest thing Harar has to a hip café. Chow down on various snacks, including pasta and burgers, or start the day with an omelette or scrambled eggs. It also has bait for the sweet-toothed. The waitresses in pink complete this very rosy picture.
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Dashen Traditional Restaurant
The soft lighting and intimate surrounds are perfect for your first awkward attempts at injera. It saved us from embarrassment after accidentally inhaling berbere - don't ask! It's off Itegue Taitu St.
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Ice Cream Mermaid
A peaceful refuge from the crowded strip nearby, this hole-in-the-wall place concocts some flavoursome ice creams as well as filling cakes. And if you need a vitamin fix, it serves up refreshing fruit juices.
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Habesha Kitfo
Lovingly and traditionally decked out with woven mat floor, cowhide stools and leather chairs, this is a good place for great Ethiopian food. Vegetarian fasting food is available daily.
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Shangri-la Restaurant
An atmospheric place for tere sega (raw meat), which is available on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. There's an outdoor dining area and a cosy bar serving quality tej.
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Habesha Restaurant
For a meal that looks as good as it tastes, come to this fashionable Bole eatery where serving is an art form. There's also live music and traditional dancing every night at 20:00.
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Agelgil
Off Meskal Flower Rd, tucked down a dirt track next to the railway tracks, is this great option. There's live dancing and music every night (except Wednesday) at 19:00.
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17 17
This local, atmospheric option is usually alive with action. The food isn't the best, but it's filling and cheap. Look for lights in a tree next to a well-lit butcher.
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Addis Ababa Restaurant
Feeling like a neglected museum, this long-standing Piazza favourite continues to churn out great Ethiopian dishes and pure tej (it has its own brewery).
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Ristorante Castelli
Famous clientele and fabulous Italian fare. We joyfully devoured the fettuccine al tartufo (fettuccini in truffle sauce) at this Piazza palace.
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John Cafeteria & Lalibela Restaurant
These neighbours share a kitchen and menu. around Br10 will get you an omelette breakfast with toast, local honey and a steaming macchiato.
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Leah's House British Restaurant
Wield your fork like a Brit possessed and massacre Cornish pasties, full English breakfasts or a steak-and-kidney pies. It's the real deal - enjoy!
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City Café & Pastry
Educated in the art of apple strudel and other delicious delicacies while in the States, the owner produces some of Addis' best pastries.
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Megenagna Hotel
Locals claim it serves Lalibela's best fasting food. We were still recovering from our quiche and couldn't confirm these claims.
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Mini Fogera
The cushion-covered cement stalls won't win your bottom's approval, but its Ethiopian fare just might win your stomach's.
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Axumawit Pastery
Below Abinet Hotel, this is a good spot for a piece of pastry (or would that be a piece of pastery?) and sip of coffee.
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