The 9 Best Ethiopian Cooking Classes

1.Market Tour and Cooking Class with a Coffee Ceremony at a Home in Addis Ababa

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 32 reviews · from $168Our pick

Spend 3.5 hours with Daniel and Tigist, starting with a private Addis Ababa market visit and continuing in their home kitchen. Learn to prepare injera and seasonal Ethiopian dishes, roast coffee by hand, and share a traditional ceremony. Choose lunch or dinner, with vegetarian options available.

“Friendly hosts gave me a family experience of preparing and cooking authentic Ethiopian food, then more importantly eating it. Totally delicious and finished with the full coffee ceremony. Very enjoyable, the only downside was the distance from my hotel, at around 40 mins just outside Addis.”

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2.Addis Ababa City Tours With Cocking Class of Ethiopian Food

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 20 reviews · from $90Best value

Spend a long day in Addis Ababa with an English-speaking guide and driver, visiting the Ethnological Museum and Merkato before shopping for ingredients and cooking injera, shiro, and mesir wot at a local home. Airport pickup, lunch, coffee, and hotel or airport transfer are included.

“Spent a long layover day with Joseph our knowledge tour guide and Bart our driver in Addis Ababa. Great tour in terms of locations covered, transportation , detailed information provided. The coffee stop and market were the highlights for me. Would definitely recommend this tour (Ask for Joseph) if you find yourself on a layover in Addis Ababa.”

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3.Ethiopian Cooking Class and Coffee Ceremony with a Local in Addis with transfers

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 14 reviews · from $154

Spend about four hours with Daniel and Tigist in their Addis Ababa home kitchen. Prepare injera, shiro or tibs, then roast coffee beans and take part in a traditional ceremony. Hotel pickup and drop-off make this private cultural experience easy to fit into an Addis visit.

“In addition to the wonderful cooking experience given by Daniel and his lovely family, Daniel gave us an inside look into his neighborhood in the hills on the outskirts of Addis and answered any and all of our questions about Ethiopian culture. This experience made our time in Read more”

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4.Ethiopia coffee cupping class/Ethiopian food injera making

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 10 reviews · 4 hours · from $94

Spend four hours with an English-speaking local guide learning how Ethiopian coffee is grown, roasted, and tasted, then make injera on a traditional mitad. Guides such as Aelaf, Joe, Mike, and Jonas add city insight, careful coordination, and cultural context. Pickup in Addis Ababa is included.

“The tour was very interesting and gave me a great insight. The guide was perfectly on time and did everything he could to make sure I had a really good experience. I felt a personal connection right away because he was very genuine and easy to talk to. His English was very perfect, which made communication smooth. He was polite, respectful, and we always spoke on eye level, creating a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere. I appreciated the valuable local input he shared along the way, which made the tour feel authentic and personal and I learned more about Addis than I ever expected. Overall, a very worthwhile experience that I…”

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5.Local Ethiopian Food Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 7 reviews · from $100

Start at 8:30 am in Addis Ababa’s Atlas neighborhood, then walk and ride between three restaurants for vegetarian food, meat, fish, coffee, juice, and beers from across Ethiopia. Hotel pickup, food, drinks, bottled water, and an air-conditioned vehicle are included. Guides’ names are not provided.

“Die Tour wurde nicht wie bei VIATOR gebucht durchgeführt. Sie war ab Beginn improvisiert, da überhaupt nicht vorbereitet.”

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6.Unique Ethiopian Cooking Class and Coffee Ceremony with a Local in Addis Ababa

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 7 reviews · from $116

Join Daniel and Tigist in their Addis Ababa home for a private, hands-on lesson in injera, shiro or tibs, and Ethiopian coffee roasting. You’ll cook, eat, and share a traditional coffee ceremony with the family. Choose lunch or dinner, and request vegetarian dishes or extra recipes when booking.

“What an amazing way to spend our Thanksgiving! Our family of 6 with adult children had the most lovely evening. Daniel and his wife Tigest hosted us in their home...”

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7.Addis abeba Full Cooking class.

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 6 reviews · 4 hours · from $90

Spend four hours with Abraham and Selam learning injera, shiro wot, and Ethiopian coffee in a local home kitchen. Your day also includes hotel or airport pickup, Shola Market, the National Museum and Lucy, lunch, and return transport. Groups are limited to seven.

“Reta is best Guide in Äthiopia! He‘s so friendly and helpful😊 … and it was really exciting to discover Addis Abeba with him 👌”

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8.Private Ethiopian Home Cooking Class in Addis Ababa with Transfer

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 5 reviews · from $124

Join Hilena, a native of Addis Ababa, for a private cooking class in her home near Sansusi. With transfer included, you may visit the neighborhood market, choose ingredients, prepare two Ethiopian dishes, share a meal, and drink Ethiopian coffee. Her brother helps translate.

“Was a great experience and very educational. Lovely and attentive family that welcomed us into their home. Be prepared, it's a long course with a ton of food but gives a sense of how Ethiopians cook and eat and is well worth it. We would definitely recommend.”

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9.Local Ethiopian Food Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 4 reviews · from $111

Start in Addis Ababa’s Atlas neighborhood with coffee or a welcome drink, then visit a family-run restaurant, a famous meat house, a fish restaurant, a juice stop, and a coffee house. Alex may handle arrangements, while the small group format allows time for questions about Ethiopian food and culture.

“My guide was preoccupied with himself and his business, on the phone or talking to others leaving me standing around waiting a lot. We even went to his bank, so unprofessional. Viator refuses to give a refund because we did 2/3 things, basically the guide sucked. So ask first and don’t use or refuse Simeon Tour Group, Awful.”

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