Explore Addis
24 curated places · Restaurants
2000 Habesha Cultural Restaurant
Bole
Tukul-style hall on Bole Road with nightly music, dance and injera feasts
Addis Ababa Restaurant
Arada
Century-old circular house serving only traditional food and homemade tej
Aladdin Restaurant
Bole
Old-school Armenian and Middle Eastern dining rooted in Addis history
Antica Bar & Restaurant
Bole
Garden pizzeria with teff-dough pies, hot-rock barbecue and an art gallery
Dashen Terara Traditional Restaurant
Haya Hulet
Since 1976: homemade-spice wats, tej and areke in a relocated classic
Effoi Pizza
Atlas
Wood-fired pizza on teff-blended dough — Addis's favorite since 2007
Fendika Cultural Center (at Hyatt Regency)
Meskel Square
The legendary azmari house reborn — Melaku Belay's Fendika now at the Hyatt
Fresh Corner Kitchen
Kazanchis
Healthy fast-casual mini-chain for salads, wraps and smoothies
Habesha Restaurant
Bole Road
Garden courtyard classic where locals actually eat their doro wat
Itegue Taitu Hotel Restaurant
Piassa
Lunch in Ethiopia's oldest hotel, founded by an empress in 1905
Kategna Restaurant
Bole
Polished everyday Ethiopian — shekla tibs, bozena shiro and a huge fasting menu
Lucy Lounge & Restaurant
Amist Kilo
Leafy garden restaurant next door to Lucy herself at the National Museum
Mamma Mia Italian Restaurant & Bar
Sarbet
Homey trattoria near the AU beloved for handmade pasta and wood-fired pizza
Marcus Addis Restaurant & Sky Bar
Legehar
Marcus Samuelsson's 47th-floor sky restaurant atop Ethiopia's tallest tower
Ristorante Castelli
Piassa
1948 Italian time capsule that fed Mandela, Fellini and Beyoncé
Sana'a Restaurant
Olympia
Since 1994: heaping Yemeni mandi and fahsa that locals swear by
Serenade Art & Food
Piassa (Alliance Ethio-Française)
Beloved Mediterranean hideaway cooking from a herb garden patio
Sishu
Kera
Cult burger joint baking its own buns and cakes for 16 years
Teshomech Kitfo House
Wollo Sefer
Backstreet legend serving what many locals call the city's best kitfo
Tikus Shiro
Lideta
Neighborhood shiro house famous for its half-half plate trick
Totot Traditional Food Hall
Gerji
Gurage-style kitfo temple in a grand carved-wood cultural hall
Yilma Siga Bet
Sarbet
Carnivore institution for tere siga — raw beef the way Addis really eats it
Yod Abyssinia Cultural Restaurant
Bole
The famous dinner-and-dance hall: injera feasts with electrifying eskista
Yohannes Kitfo
Urael
30-year family kitfo house that serves kitfo and nothing else