Ethiopia Info
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 Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:59 am Post subject: FOOD & DINING IN ETHIOPIA / ETHIOPIA DINING GUIDE |
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FOOD & DINING IN ETHIOPIA
Ethiopian food is one of the most unique in the world; most would agree that the look, feel and taste is quite different from other types of foods served around the world. The constant is a soft, flat bread known as Injera. It is made out of teff, a grain harvested only in Ethiopia. Injera is served with various meat and vegetarian sauces.
Menus in the best hotels offer international food and Addis Ababa also has a number of good Chinese, Italian and Indian restaurants. Traditional restaurants in larger cities serve food in a grand manner around a brightly coloured basket-weave table called a masob. Before beginning the meal, guests will be given soap, water and a clean towel, and the right hand is used to break off pieces of bread with which the rest of the meal is gathered up. Cutlery is not used.
National specialties
• Ethiopian food is based on dishes called we’t (meat, chicken or vegetables, cooked in a hot pepper sauce), served with or on injera (a flat spongy bread).
• Dishes include shivro and misir (chickpeas and lentils, Ethiopian-style) and tibs (crispy fried steak).
• There is a wide choice of fish including sole, Red Sea snapper, lake fish, trout and prawns.
National drinks
• Ethiopian coffee from the province of Kaffa, with a little rue added for extra aroma, is called ‘health of Adam’.
• Local red and dry white wines are worth trying.
• Talla (Ethiopian beer).
• Kaitaka (a pure grain alcohol), cognac (a local brandy) and tej (an alcoholic drink based on fermented honey).
PLACES TO DINE
Castelli Restaurant
Infront of Mahmoud music shop,
Piassa,
Addis Ababa
Phone: +251 11 1571757
Don Vito Restaurant
Debre Zeit Road,
Addis Ababa
Phone: +251 11 4653809
Habesha Restaurant
Next to Sabit Building,
Bole Road,
Addis Ababa
Phone: +251 11 5518358
il Caminetto Restaurant
In front of Brass Hospital,
Bole Road,
Addis Ababa
Phone: +251 11 6625587
Le Jardin Restaurant
Meskel Flower Road,
Addis Ababa
Phone: +251 11 4166956
Loti Restaurant
3rd Floor Tebaber Berta Building,
Wolo Sefer,
Addis Ababa
Phone: +251 11 5531313
Makush Gallery
2nd Floor Mega Building,
Bole Road,
Addis Ababa
Phone: +251 11 5526848
Rico's Restaurant
Next to Assay Public School,
Bole Road,
Addis Ababa
Phone: +251 11 5539462
Top View Restaurant
Up the hill from the Megenagna Roundabout,
Addis Ababa
Phone: +251 11 6627340 |
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