The Four Sisters Restaurant — Restaurant in Amhara Region

Racism and a bed bug

A very delicious meal. Price is very good - Only 100 birr for a traditional food (like "Mehaberawi" - they call it "National Food" ), they serve very good. But.....

When we came in: After we passed through the main hall restaurant, we have came out at the other side of the door, and saw an outdoor service area. But, I and my friend were interested to sit on the veranda, and tried to find a table their; every table on the veranda has a Reserved Sign on it, except one table occupied by two white people, and when we ask the waiters they told us to get down to the outdoor service area as every table is reserved (We have been their for at least an hour, but we havent seen anyone coming to those table).

On the outdoor service area there was a very dirty clothing on top as a roofing - seems it is only there for decoration as it cant protect from wind or rain.

Like us, there were three tables occupied by other Ethiopians on the outdoor service area; but, a wind came and blew the area, and a tree leaf has started falling on our meal. So, we all on that area asked to move to the veranda. The waiters weren't happy but couldnt do anything, so we moved to the veranda.

The chairs on the veranda has traditional clothing placed to decorate them. After a few minutes of siting, my fried put his head on the chair for support, but immediately she get an itch on her neck, and when sending here hand found a bed bug. Seems the clothing is not clean.

In addition to that, after finishing their food, the white people were given a kind of bread made by honey, and banana as a desert (we sat just next to their table). We except they will do the same for us; unfortunately NO.

Ethiopians facing Racism in own country.

We have faced the same kind of Racism in Lalibela at "Kana Restaurant" in...

Maybe we have a one off experience but we were a party of two people, we ordered a chicken soup, an egg sandwich, a lamb tibs, a honey wine, a beer, and a water.

One note is that none of the waitresses speak English which is fine, we’re in their country. But we have travelled extensively and try our best to communicate clearly and pointing to each of the menu items as we order.

The wine and water came first. As we were waiting for our food, our waitress came and said they don’t have chicken soup, we said that was fine and said we won’t be ordering any soup after given substitute options. After wards, she said something something lamb tibs and then “Four sisters special” so we just assumed based on the previous topic, that they don’t have lamb tibs and we can substitute with the fours sisters special instead. Assuming this, we agreed to the specials. When the food came, it was lamb tibs AND the four sisters special. No egg sandwich and also no beer at this point. The unfortunate thing is that only one of us eat red meat and both of these dishes have red meat in them. The special also came cold. Also note that the special was much more expensive than the egg sandwich. We asked if the egg sandwich was coming which we would gladly pay for because the person who ordered it was hungry but we weren’t understood. Again, fine, we’re the foreigners.

We chalked the whole experience up this point was us not knowing the language but the clincher was that we asked for the bill, no bill came and was just told we...

Disappointing. No menu on the Saturday of our visit, only a buffet to serve long rows of tables for big tour groups. The live Ethiopian entertainment was a guy playing a few notes of a lute each time a customer entered. The food was mediocre Ethiopian with rolls of injera on the buffet, and a heavy assortment of bland vegetable dishes to cater to the least common denominator tourist diner. We had to pay our crazily overpriced 295 birr per person standing in line at the cashier because, again, there was no table service.

On the plus side, the decor is quite nice, but since loading up a plate of buffet food and eating it took just 20 minutes, we didn't get much of a chance to enjoy it. Unless you want a cruise ship experience,...