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HABESHAH Restaurant on Bole...
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  • HABESHAH Restaurant on Bole Road
    best injera I found in Ethiopia, but a little bit costy for the country. Most prices differ between 20 and 25 BIR (full meal without drinking), thats 3 EURO - not too much!!

    Various delicous menus with injera: try them all !(this will take some days :)) And don't forget the coffee ceremony with BERHANE

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  • Address: Bole Road Addis Ababa
  • Other Contact: it's getting full early, so come
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    Although I can name the latest...
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  • Although I can name the latest restaurants as the best, I recommend the ones I used to go to as a kid. Especially, Mini, its on bole road near the airport.
    A killer place to eat some traditional food is Ghion hotel. Although, overshadowed by the glamorous sheraton, I'll be an old-timer and recommend this one.
    It is the epitomy of Addis, its got class but still exhibits flaws. Yet for most they will leave having enjoyed classy accomodation.

    The milkshake is good, so is the burger (unless they've changed the menu)mini
    Order the special, with the coffee ceromony and enjoy treatment worthy of royalty.

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  • Address: any taxi driver will get you there.
  • Other Contact: no tips on this one. sorry.
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    You can get Ethiopian food in...
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  • You can get Ethiopian food in many different restaurants. There are also 'international' food available in some restaurants but when you go to Ethiopia you have to of course taste Ethiopian food.
    In Africa hotel (or something like that) in Addis Ababa there is a very nice Ethiopian style restaurant with a special atmosphere. The guests can eat in small 'rooms' which are decorated with African things.

    Ethiopian food, vot, is very delicious. It can be many different kinds of sauces - most of them very spicy - and it's eaten with a very thin bread called injera. The sauces are served on the bread and the whole thing is eaten from a big common plate by fingers.

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    Choose carefully
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  • Ethiopian cuisine is some of the most unique in the world and ca n become quite the addiction. However, the ingredients are the "real thing" in Ethiopia (as opposed to in the West where most of the key ingredients can no be grown or imported so they are substituted) and can be rough on tender tummies. Also, make sure to ask other travelers or those who have been to Addis before where to eat. Do not eat from buffets except at Western hotels if you can avoid it. Including myself, even travelers with iron stomachs often fallen sick in Ethiopia. Stick with established local restaurants. Italian restaurants are also quite good. As much as I love to sample local cuisine at local cafes to enjoy the full experience, it is truly a risk in Addis. Enjoy the local cuisine but be willing to pay a little more for the restaurants recommended in guide books. Even a "little more" is negligible as food is so cheap and good here.

    Get the full mix of stews on the local bread, injera. Try tej, the famous Ethiopian honey meade.

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    Cant remember the better one...
    Cant remember the better one butI remember quality for food was rare.
    I got sick after Hilton's shrimps ... Do not try them ;-(
    Sit with Coffe Wizero there is one in every good restaurant !

    Ingera

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    Gambella has just one eating...
    Gambella has just one eating place that could pass as a restaurant. It's in the Ethiopia
    restaurant. They have somewhat cold soda which is not found any other place in Gambella. Try to get a table under the overhead fan and you will eat less flys with your lunch.
    Has overhead fan to keep flies out of food

    You eat what they have ,but after a month or so it will not matter. If it's food no one complains.

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    All decent restaurants in Northern Ethiopia: Meta Beer
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  • Meta Beer is brewed in Mekelle, Tigray, in Northern Ethiopia, and it's gooood! After a long, hot, dusty day on the road, this is a homecoming feeling...
    You can get this beer in most northern restaurants, maybe now in Addis as well. There is a good drinking place - beer outlet? - in Mekelle called Green Hotel. But there are less publ-like places, too where you can have a taste.

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  • Comparison: less expensive than average
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    Any restaurant in Ethiopia: Try injera - the national dish of Ethiopia
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  • Injera is the most popular dish in Ethiopia and is served in every restaurant. It is made of teff - a kind of crop that grows in Ethiopia. It is a pancake like bread with addition - mainly meat on the top of it. It should be eaten with only the right hand, you should tear a piece of injera and then grasp with it the ingridients that lay on it. No knife or fork is served. Needless to say that all the banknotes in Ethiopia have to be changed to new ones very often...;).
    Injera have a specific, slightly bitter taste. If you get bored with it usually it is possible to order dishes with bread instead of injera.

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    BLUE TOPS - ADDIS ABABA: TOP MARKS
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    Closed Mondays

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  • Comparison: more expensive than average
  • Phone: (+251 11) 1232463, 1232464
  • Directions: Accross from the National Museum in Amist Kilo
  • Website: http://realethiopia.com/directory/dining/restaurant/blue-tops/detail.html
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    Campfire in the bush..: Kill-a-goat....!
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  • Roasted and marinated goat in southern Ethiopia is the BEST meat I've ever had....! If you are a veggie - STOP beeing that! (sorry....)

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