Asian cuisine restaurants Addis-Abeba

Addis Ababa has a fine new restaurant to discover. Hotto is a top-flight Japanese-Asian fusion restaurant. It's chic and rather expensive. Dinner is served in an elegant room with soft lighting and green and blue upholstered armchairs. On the menu: small dishes to share, such as vegetarian taquitos with bean sprouts, carrot, cabbage and ginger, or others with salmon, soy, sesame oil and lime. A wide choice of dishes: teriyaki, tempura, glass noodle... Everything is appetizing and delicious.

Indian vegetarian cuisine is all the rage in Addis Ababa. Ethiopians practice fasting, i.e. fasting until midday mass, then eating dishes without meat or animal products (vegan in short). This restaurant, opened by a woman, Indian chef Radhika Goenka, offers creative vegetable and grain-based dishes such as curried dhals, as well as an "Indo-Chinese" fusion menu. The place is elegant, frequented by Ethiopian businessmen, with brick walls behind the counter.