Bahir Dar Restaurants

I WILL TELL YOU NOW: if you go to Ethiopia your breakfast will always be scrambled eggs or fried eggs or omelette. If you are lucky you may find pancakes, which have the same taste as omelettes so better don't ask. That’s why I was soooo happy to find this smiling bakery on a corner on the main road, not far from the bus station. Coffee + cakes and biscuits were excellent and prices had nothing to see with the expensive breakfasts in the hotels either. We were soooo satisfied that we repeated the following day and bought some biscuits for the long road trip to Lalibela. Definitely not to miss!
Open also on Sundays

Favorite Dish: I would not dare to taste the cakes with cream, just in case . . .

This was the chosen restaurant for two dinners so it should not be too bad! It is a typical Ethiopian hotel, with colorful rooms + shared bathrooms around a courtyard with some shady trees. In this case courtyard was also used as a restaurant, where you could find more locals than tourists having dinner (that should be another good sign). We chose this restaurant for its combination of traditional dishes and (good for me!) pasta with tomato sauce. They also have a good selection of local beers and waiters are very kind. Mains cost between 9-15 Birr.
No fruit juices.

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The holy men on the monasteries are vegetarians and for protein will eat a local bean that they dry out. Kind of reminded me of a dense nut. You may be offered a handful as you wander around the islands.

Favorite Dish: This Place does fantastic smoothie - they call it esprice. The fruits are all fresh and seasonal the choice is limited to that specific season. I had three fruits in mine - Avocado, Guava (ethiopian call it Zeitun), Papay. One word: Delicious. The staff are very relaxed and there is a family atmosphere in the place. I also had coffee in that place and it was lovely as well

Favorite Dish: This Place does a fantastic smoothie - they call it esprice. The fruits are all fresh and seasonal the choice is limited to that specific season. I had three fruits in mine - Avocado, Guava (ethiopian call it Zeitun), Papay. One word: Delicious. The staff are very relaxed and there is a family atmosphere in the place. I also had coffee in that place and it was lovely as well

This is one of the few accptable restaurants here. Don't expect luxury, the place is rather popular amongst locals and is simple but OK. And if there is a place where you can see foreignrs is here, as it is included in the LP guide.
There is a new restaurant (Enkututash 2) located very near in the same avenue as Post Office but a little further, passed the Ghion Hotel. This 2nd one is a little more "luxury", located in a cottage, but roughly the same menu,

Favorite Dish: I had fish with spicy sauce and injhera. 15B (1,5USD)

The pastry is downstairs and sells nice coffee and cakes The on the first floor is quite popular, especially when the daily barrel of draft Dashen Beer is sold for 1,60 Birr / 0.5 l.

Meals are tasty and go for about 8 Birr.

The food in the Ghion Hotel was very good and cheap. The staff is very friendly and you can sit in a great ambiance, in the flowering garden at the lakeside of Lake Tana.
So, we didn't go somewhere else.

It was nice to have breakfast at the (still empty) terrace, early in the morning, and to look at the soft morninglight at the lake.
Breakfast with juice and eggs costs about 1,5 euro.

We liked our dinner in this hotel, with meals with different kind of meat and fish or vegetarian, soup, salades, desserts or the local injera.
Dinner with one drink costs about 2,5 euro.