International cuisine
Eat around the world in Dar es Salaam
Tanzania’s busiest city has a thriving food scene to match with plenty of international cuisine options. So let your taste buds travel and take a globe-trotting culinary trip, Bongo-style, with us.
Ethiopian
Addis in Dar
This restaurant has been a hugely popular part of the Dar es Salaam dining scene for almost a quarter of a century. Its Ethiopian owner ensures an authentic culinary experience by sourcing all the grains and spices the country’s cuisine is famous for from his mother, who lovably sun dries them at her home in Addis Ababa. The restaurant also encourages the cuisine’s hands-on approach to eating with dishes served on injera, a spongy flat-bread made with gluten-free grain teff, used to scoop up thick vegetable or meat stews (called
wats or wots). It’s a style of eating that lends itself to sharing and many of Addis in Dar’s most popular options are the set menus that offer a mix-and-match variety of mouth-watering stews and sauces with plenty of vegetarian options and stacks of injera to go around. For the full Ethiopian experience, you can complement your food with a glass of the sweet homemade honey wine known as ‘tej’ or a cup of traditional home-brewed coffee. Word is spreading. Addis in Dar’s success is such that a sister restaurant in Cape Town has opened recently. Try this: It’s hard to look past the set menus, but the Doro Wot, a selection of chicken drumsticks marinated in fresh lime juice, simmered in chopped onions, garlic
and red pepper spice berbere is a fiery alternative. Opening hours: 5.30pm to 10.30pm every evening except Sunday. Address: Ursino Street, Dar es Salaam. Call +255 713 266 299
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