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Go Addis Food Tours only $50 for the next two weeks!
We're celebrating Ethiopian New Year by discounting Addis Ababa's most famous tour, the Go Addis Food Tour, to only $50 per person for the next two weeks! Go Addis Tours has over 200 5-star reviews and a 100% rating on TripAdvisor. We've been awarded the Certificate...
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What To Do in Somaliland: Hargeisa, Las Geel & Berbera
Check out our other blogs on Somaliland: How to Get to Somaliland, Where to Stay in Somaliland and most importantly, Where to Eat in Somaliland. Hargeisa We spent our days in Hargeisa wandering the city and eating. No surprises there! Market The central market is a...
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A Guide to the Best Shopping in Addis Ababa
Want to do some shopping in Addis Ababa? Looking for the best places to shop in town? We've got you covered! Gollagul Tower This is a leather shoe heaven. Go Addis co-founder, Xavi, cannot leave this shopping mall with less than two new pair of leather shoes. Every....
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Where to Eat in Somaliland: Hargeisa & Berbera
We’d be lying if we said one of our top priorities of visiting Somaliland wasn’t to check out the food. Camel meat here we come! Hargeisa Breakfast: Cup of Art Italian Coffee We ventured out to the Cup of Art Italian Coffee shop to check out the Somaliland Diaspora...
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Ethiopia: Know Before You Go
Planning a trip to Ethiopia? Got a ton of questions? Here's some basic info for pre-travel planning. And as always, we're here for your questions. Visa Most travelers can receive a visa upon arrival. The visa is $50 USD for a 1-month tourist visa or $70 USD for a...
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Restaurants in Addis Ababa: Effoi Pizza
We’ve got a couple of pizza spots we love in Addis, but our #1 is Effoi. There's nothing better than an evening outside on their picnic tables with cold beers at their Chechinia location. We also can't get enough of their spicy coch-chocha sauce. Made of green...
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Where to Stay: Hotels in Somaliland
The Addis Eats team is recently back from 4 days in Somaliland with TripScout Founder and friend, Konrad. Check out our other blog: How to Get to Somaliland from Ethiopia. Note: unmarried couples aren’t allowed to share a room and can sometimes be required to show a...
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Turbo: The Drink of Ethiopia’s Meat Houses
Photo via Twitter @CNN Catch Bourdain sipping on Turbo in the awesome episode of CNN’s Parts Unknown and wondering exactly what that strange combination of booze was? While Bourdain correctly sites that the #1 rule of drinking is never to mix, he also abides by the...
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How to get to Somaliland from Ethiopia
Transport Are you trying to figure out how to reach Somaliland from Ethiopia? Shocked by the almost $600 USD Ethiopian Airlines ticket price? Dreading the difficult and dangerous road travel? Or are you nervous about getting back? Maybe ending up like the guy who had...
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11 Reasons to Travel to Ethiopia Right Now
Planning your travel for 2016? Here are 11 reasons to visit Ethiopia right now. 1. The Coffee! Can you imagine starting every day of your vacation with a perfect cup of strong Ethiopian coffee? 2. Feel Like A True Explorer. Ethiopia’s government is...
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The History of Coffee
Ethiopia is the birthplace of coffee. Coffee was discovered in the Kaffa region (southwestern Ethiopia), hence the name coffee. Only 20% of the coffee in the country is commercially farmed, with the rest coming from smallholder farmers, who harvest coffee mainly in...
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9 Things You Didn’t Know About Ethiopian Wine
1. There is GREAT Ethiopian! The newly released Rift Valley wines are high quality and a great deal at about $10 USD a bottle. 2. The Italian forces who occupied part of the country from 1936 to 1941 planted vines near Addis, as well as in the...
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Addis Ababa Restaurant: Home Cooked Food in Gerji
'Beyaynetu' - a vegan platter Moringa is our favorite neighborhood spot. Moringa, also known as cabbage leaf and poised to become one of the world’s next superfoods, is now the namesake of hundreds of shops in Addis ranging from pharmacies, to...
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Top 5 Things to Drink in Ethiopia
1. Coffee. Duh. This one is a no brainer. There are two kinds of coffees served readily in Addis Ababa: 'jebena buna' which is coffee prepared the traditional way and cafe coffee, a leftover of the Italian occupation. 'Jebena buna' is coffee brewed in the traditional...
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Best Cafe in Addis Ababa
Alem Buna is hands down our favorite cafe in Addis Ababa. Not only is the coffee spectacular, but they also sell kilos of their ‘special blend’ which we buy in bulk and traffic across international borders. A macchiato is 7 birr ($0.35 USD) including...
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10 Reasons to do an Addis Eats Food Tour by 11-year-old Sebastien
This list comes to you from 11-year-old Sebastien who joined us for a food tour earlier this year with his family. Prepare to be convinced. Reason #1: If you do it early it removes all the mystery of Ethiopian food so you can enjoy it more. And your sister will...
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24 Hours in Addis Ababa
Have a layover in Addis? Wondering what to do? We've got you covered! Sign up for our Full Day Tour ($135 per person) which combines our city tour, market tour and food tour. You'll get a great insight to the city, get a crash course in Ethiopian customs and culture...
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8 Gluten-Free Teff Recipes for the Holidays
We could sing the praises of our local grain, teff, for days if you gave us the soap box. Besides being the star of almost every meal in Ethiopia (yup, we’re talking about injera), this tiny little grain is a nutritional powerhouse. One cup of cooked teff has more...
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Bourdain in Ethiopia
Co-Founders Xavier Curtis and Eliza Richman with Anthony Bourdain in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Watched any TV lately? CNN has been talking for weeks about Anthony Bourdain’s newest season of Parts Unknown and we’ve been on the edge of our seats eagerly...
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What Is Injera?
Injera and Shiro (Photo by Munira Hashim) What is it? Injera is strange the first time you see it, touch it and smell it. It’s squishy, sour-smelling and looks a bit like the surface of the moon. But it’s delicious and accompanies everything perfectly....
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Ethiopian Sauces
Raw Meat & Condiments If you’ve ever been to Ethiopia you know that Ethiopians love meat. They eat it for every meal of they day if they can afford it. And it is always served with a range of condiments. Every restaurant makes their own version of...
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The Story of Addis Eats
Why do we love Ethiopia so much and how did we end up here? AddisEats co-founder, Eliza Richman, was raised by her beloved Ethiopian nanny for 18 years in Washington, DC. And then we followed her back to Ethiopia! It'd be a lot less cute if I did this now (but...
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Introducing Premium Ethiopian Wines
Cuvee Prestige Chardonnay When we first arrived in Ethiopia in 2011 we could never have imagined we’d be drinking premium quality wines made in Ethiopia. Little did we know that in 2007 the Castel family, in private consultations with the late Prime...
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Ethiopia’s Food Culture
Food is to Ethiopians as water is to fish. Eating is a relaxed, communal and celebrated experience. Food is always fresh, ingredients are organic and spices are used liberally. Meats, stews and vegetables are poured over a shared plate of injera, eaten...
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