The best restaurants in Ethiopia Ethiopia

This is an institution in Gondar, undoubtedly the best restaurant for foreign visitors. With its beautifully decorated dining room and top-quality Ethiopian cuisine, this restaurant, run by four charismatic sisters, is a great success. They'll be happy to welcome you with traditional dances (musical evenings every evening). Pleasant setting, delicious cuisine, coffee ceremony, attentive service, terrace in a pleasant, quiet garden... Praise is not lacking for this fine address. Souvenir store.

The Goha is a Gondar institution, one of the city's oldest hotels. Located on a promontory overlooking the city, it offers magnificent views from the terrace of the bar-restaurant in front of the swimming pool. In the lobby, the coffee ceremony precedes a room illuminated by bay windows. A romantic setting for dinner. One side of the restaurant is furnished in the traditional Ethiopian style, the other is more modern, as is the menu, which offers both classic and Western dishes. An excellent address.

One of the many traditional restaurants in the capital offering excellent traditional dance shows. Furniture, staff attire, service, coffee ceremony, architecture, everything is here typically Ethiopian without being skipped. The food is excellent, proof is that the restaurant is so frequented by tourists and expatriates than by locals. A large tent makes it possible to take a meal outside. Dance and folk music shows are regularly scheduled. Prices are still correct.

It may not look like much from the outside, but once you've passed through the small door, you'll find yourself on a pleasant green terrace where tables are set up under a large marquee. This address is popular with Ethiopians and foreign tourists or expatriates living in Addis Ababa, who come here mainly to enjoy the excellent local cuisine (grilled Nile perch, chicken stew...). Portions are large enough for two people. Traditional dance performances every Wednesday and Saturday evening from 7pm. Coffee ceremony.

The restaurant at the Hyatt Regency hotel is a good place to eat at any time of day. We love the wide choice of refined Levantine dishes (hot and cold mezzés), as well as the extensive menu of Western and Ethiopian dishes, wraps and sandwiches. We loved the labneh with beet and dried mint, the different lake fish of the day, such as the samak mashwi with turmeric, coriander, lemon, zaatar and chilli, the shawarma in its homemade bread, the fatoush salad... The interior is really pretty, bright, in beige tones and decorated with Ethiopian crafts.