የአፍሪካ ጃዝ መንደር | African Jazz Village — Restaurant in Addis Ababa

The only reason to go to Africa Jazz Village is because of the immense respect I have for Gash Mulatu. But the place really needs to upgrade their service. They don’t serve food. They have a weird reason that due to fear that some orders will be mishandled, the management tells the servers to stop serving. And there is a restaurant just behind it. And the waiters are slow. Ordering a drink and getting it takes a long time. So when you try to order and have these conversations, you end up missing on the music. And the manager is also not cooperative and does not run the place well. It’s really a shame because no one in the city has the privilege of having Gash Mulatu. I doubt I will visit anymore because my last two experiences have been terrible. I really hope the place changes...

Drinks waaaaaayyy overpriced, not a real jazz environment coming from Chicago a real jazz and blues city and stale and boring. I’m not sure whitewashed Africans can create an establishment of cultural value and worth considering the prices and atmosphere. Was hoping for a place I could come frequently maybe even daily and it was so dry and service so bad, with the nerve to charge a cover charge at the door. Not to mention the slave Ethiopian jezebel with her average white Esaus conforming the place down to a whitewashed Idiocracy with no reflection of saltiness or truth culture as jazz is a black American...

Africa Jazz Village is a legendary hub for Ethio-Jazz in Addis Ababa inside Ghion hotel. It offers a unique jazz performance by Dr. Mulatu Astatke, Gash Girma Beyene a blend of Ethiopian rhythms and modern jazz influences as well.

While giving the music and the atmospheric a high praise, the service is so bad with limited food options with slow service and unreasonable high prices to deliver the food from Ghion to the culb so you must eat before going inside lol.

Despite the service related issues, the place remains a proud cultural gem to experience Ethio-jazz with the greatest Dr. Mulatu...