Restaurants and Coffee Shops
Restaurants and cafes in Addis Ababa: #1 Kaldi's, #2 Lime Tree, #3 Jewel of India. Dining in Addis Ababa is a truly a wonderful experience as Addis ababa offers a colorful local cuisine but also boasts a good number of restaurants with continental cuisine that would please discerning diners. Due to the diplomatic nature of the city and Ethiopian history, there are all type of restaurants in Addis Ababa: Indian, chinese, Italian, thai and more. We have listed the best restaurants and cafes in Addis Ababa here below.
Kaldi's Coffee - Addis Ababa Featured
Kaldi's is the Starbucks of Ethiopia and has Starbuks-like logo and Starbucks-like décor, and its workers wear Starbucks-like green aprons too. At the bar, there are Starbucks-like "short" and "tall" coffee options, although Kaldi's sticks exclusively to ...
Lime Tree Restaurant & Cafe - Addis Ababa Featured
Lime Tree restaurant and café was started in 2005 and is located in the Boston partners building 2nd floor on Bole road. A nice place to go for lunch especially the pastas, and the lime juice is very refreshing. There is is fast food too and Sunday brunch ...
Jewel of India Restaurant - Addis Ababa Featured
The Jewel of India is an authentic indian restaurant and probably the best indian cuisine restaurant in Addis Ababa. The Jewel of India is set in Comfortable, quiet building and features a friendly ambiance. The staff of the restaurant offer quick and eff ...
Enya's Mediterranean kitchen - Addis Ababa Featured
Enya's Mediterranean kitchen is a cozy Hellenic/Cypriot restaurant located in Bole Medanyalem, Addis Ababa, offering Mediterranean delicious dishes by traditional family recipes your taste-buds will never forget.
Enya's Mediterranean kitchen was founde ...
Yod Abyssinia Traditional Food - Addis Ababa
YOD Abyssinia is a Traditional Restaurant, established in 2003 and is one of the pioneering and most reputable traditional restaurants in Addis Ababa. YOD means witness or 'speak out’ in the Gurage ethnic group where the owner, Ato Tizazu Kore, is origina ...
Serenade Restaurant - Addis Ababa
This exclusive Restaurant that serves some of the most memorable meals in Addis Ababa. Set in a converted house, the atmosphere is very private and exclusive. With an extensive wine list and an eye-popping dessert selection, the entres have a lot of compe ...
Blue Tops Restaurant - Addis Ababa
Blue Tops is a first class Italian Restaurant contained within a privacy minded garden. The staff are professional, the food is divine and the atmosphere is great. They have 3 tables outside that I highly recommend sitting at. When you sit down they bring ...
Fasika National Restaurant - Addis Ababa
Fasika Restaurant is one of the popular destinations to experience traditional Ethiopian evening entertainment in Addis Ababa. Dancing, music and performance accompany a traditional meal of wat and injera. This is also an ideal place to explore dishes suc ...
Cloud 9 Restaurant & Cafe - Addis Ababa
Cloud 9 Restaurant Cafe is good restaurant and cafe on the 5th floor of Getu Commercial Centre on Bole road. The view of Addis Ababa from Cloud 9 is fantastic specially late in the evening. They do serve local food injera but have a buffet for continental ...
Dashen Traditional Restaurant - Addis Ababa
Dashen Restaurant is one of the few traditional restaurants in Addis Ababa best known for introducing ethiopian food to foreign visitors in style. Dashen restaurant is located behind the main post office building on Churchill Avenue and serves ethiopian ...
Habesha Restaurant - Addis Ababa
Habesha Restaurant is located on Bole Road near Wollo Sefer junction in a candlelit tukul – which is a traditional hut with low wooden tables. The waitresses are pretty girls dressed in white cotton dresses and they approach you with a silver tray and a p ...
Agelgil Restaurant - Addis Ababa
Agelgil is another good traditional restaurant is Addis Ababa. Agelgil offers entertainment while you eat in the form of dances. Two men and two women adorned in traditional regalia dance in well choreographed dances. The meal ends with a coffee drinking ...
Sangam Restaurant - Addis Ababa
Sangam Restaurant is the place to go forThe best place to go for Indian food in Addis Ababa, the Sangam has a solid reputation. Whether you are looking for comfort korma with naan or something new and adventurous, Sangam will offer the best in service and ...
Fisherman Restaurant - Addis Ababa
Fisherman Restaurant in Adiis Ababa is situated on Mickey Leland Street near Atlas Hotel. It is a half-Chinese, half-Tibetan restaurant serving an excellent range of asian cuisine and specializing in seafood.
Ristorante Castellis - Addis Ababa
Castellis Restaurant is the oldest and best Italian restaurant in Addis Ababa and was featured on CNN inside Africa in 2009 as being the best Italian Restaurant In Africa. It was established by Carlo Castelli in 1948, shortly after the collapse of Italian ...
Shaheen Indian Restaurant @ Sheraton Hotel - Addis Abab...
Shaheen Indian Restaurant is located in the Sheraton hotel and is mostly frequented by Sheraton hotel guests but by also a small number of Addis Ababa's population. Being in a luxury hotel, Shaheen restaurant offer a cozy atmosphere and a charming decor. ...
Tomoca Coffee - Addis Ababa
Tomoca Coffee shop is an old Italian Piazza café, where beans are roasted on-site. Tomoca coffee is very popular with tourists where are after enjoying delicious coffee in Ethiopia, they buy souvenirs for themselves and for friends to take back home. Tom ...
La Mandoline cafe and Restaurant - Addis Ababa
La Mandoline Café & Restaurant is a french Cafe located next to Medhanialem Church. It is a good place to go for a selection of French and broadly European cuisine, without the extreme high prices of Addis' other European restaurants. The menu boasts tagl ...
Raizel Café - Addis Ababa
This slick modern café speedily serves tasty cheese burgers, tuna melts, French fries and breakfast omelettes. It is a lovely cafe with a good decor. The furniture is made of polished glass and aluminum. Faux pillars lined the walls and an upper gallery h ...
Sishu Cafe - Addis Ababa
Sishu is a fine cafe near the National theatre in Addis Ababa. It offers wonderful burgers, nice flavoured milk and fantastic tarts – a real relief for those desperate for a rest from injera. It also contains expansive play areas for children. The layout ...

