Addis Ababa Traditional Food Tour
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Experience Highlights
Immerse yourself in the rich flavours of Ethiopia with this full-day food tour of Addis Ababa, including pick-up and drop-off at your accommodation. Explore Atkilt Tera, Piassa and Merkato, the city's largest open-air markets, where you'll see and smell mountains of spices and fresh produce.
Learn from experts how to make injera, the traditional Ethiopian bread, and enjoy an authentic buffet lunch at the historic Taitu Hotel, the city's first.
Complete your experience with the Ethiopian coffee ceremony, from roasting beans to tasting, and top it off with a glass of local honey wine. The tour is offered in Arabic, English, Italian, French or Spanish (choose at the next step of booking), with live guides accompanying you throughout the day.
- Book your gastronomic and cultural immersion day in Addis Ababa.
- Discover markets, learn how to make injera and experience the coffee ceremony.
- Includes transport, multilingual guide and buffet lunch at Taitu Hotel.
What’s included
- Pick up and drop off anywhere in Addis Ababa (hotel, house or airport).
- Ground transportation in air-conditioned vehicle (including driver and fuel).
- Accompanying guide.
- Visit to the Atkilt Tera, Piassa and Merkato markets.
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Step by Step
Start your adventure with a morning pick-up from your hotel, airport or residential address in Addis Ababa (include name in next step of booking) or Edna Mall. Aboard an air-conditioned vehicle, you'll travel first to Atkilt Tera, Ethiopia's largest fruit and vegetable market, where you'll discover exotic produce and spices that bring the local cuisine to life.
Next, you'll enter Merkato, Africa's largest open-air market, a maze of stalls filled with grains, vegetables and spices. There you'll meet a group of women who will teach you step-by-step the art of making injera, the spongy, tangy bread that accompanies every Ethiopian meal.
Afterwards, you will enjoy a coffee tasting at the Tomoca Café, the oldest in the city, where you will taste an espresso or a macchiato made with recipes dating back more than 50 years. Later, in the mountain village of Sululta, you will experience the complete Ethiopian coffee ceremony: from the washing of the beans to the live roasting and finally the tasting. You will also learn how tej (honey wine) is made and taste a cup.
To recharge your batteries, you will head to the Taitu Hotel, founded in 1905, where an Ethiopian buffet will offer you a variety of stews, vegetables and meats served on injera, along with rice and typical salads. Then celebrate the end of the tour with a honey wine tasting in a traditional setting.
