Birthday & Anniversary Dinners
Long mesob tables, low lighting and candles for the milestones you want to mark properly. We bring out a shared platter, keep the injera coming, and let the evening run at your pace rather than ours.
Just off the main dining room, behind its own entrance, is a quieter room of your own — for birthday dinners, family gatherings, client hosting and standing receptions where the whole evening belongs to you.
Long mesob tables, low candlelight and unhurried service, with the aromas of doro wat, roasting coffee and injera coming fresh from our kitchen. Tell us the occasion and we will hold the room for you.
Call to reserve the private room
+251 11 662 3344 · Open daily 12:00–23:00
Step past the bustle of the main floor and the private-dining room at Paradiso takes over: its own entrance area so your guests arrive together, long mesob tables woven for sharing, and lighting kept low and warm.
Candles sit among traditional textiles — handwoven cotton and embroidered borders in ochre and terracotta — so the room feels like a family home set for a feast rather than a function space. The mesob tables seat intimate dinners of ten comfortably, and we arrange them end to end for larger celebrations, seated dinners and standing receptions.
Service here is deliberately unhurried. Courses arrive when your table is ready for them, coffee is poured slowly, and nobody is rushed out at the end of the evening — the room is yours until you are finished with it.
A separate entrance area just off the main dining room, so your party gathers without crossing the full floor.
Long mesob tables set for sharing, arranged for intimate dinners of ten through to larger celebrations.
Candles and traditional handwoven textiles in ochre and terracotta keep the room warm and close.
Unhurried service throughout — tell us your pace and we will keep to it. To hold the room, call +251 11 662 3344.
From a quiet birthday dinner to a full cultural evening, the private room at Paradiso is set up for the gatherings that matter to your family and friends. Tell us what you are celebrating and we will shape the room, the menu and the pace around it.
Long mesob tables, low lighting and candles for the milestones you want to mark properly. We bring out a shared platter, keep the injera coming, and let the evening run at your pace rather than ours.
A quieter room of your own just off the main dining room, with its own entrance area — easy for guests arriving from Bole Road. Set menus make hosting straightforward, and unhurried service means nobody is rushed out mid-conversation.
We host family meals of every kind, including memorial lunches, with the calm and privacy they deserve. Seated dinners from intimate tables of ten through to larger celebrations, served with care and no time limit.
Traditional textiles, warm ochre light and a room that holds a crowd for toasts and photographs. We can arrange seated dinners or a standing reception, and tailor the menu to the families joining you.
Green beans roasted over coals, hand-ground, then brewed in a jebena and poured at the table with popcorn and incense. A full ceremony sized up for your group — the centrepiece of an evening that shows visiting guests how Addis Ababa welcomes people.
We welcome tour groups and can arrange a cooking demonstration alongside your meal, so guests see how shiro, misir wat and kitfo are prepared. Menus and timings are adapted to your itinerary.
To hold the private room, call +251 11 662 3344 with your date, time and number of guests.
Three starting points we cook most often for private gatherings. Each is priced per person in Ethiopian Birr, tax included, and every menu can be tailored around dietary needs, spice level and the shape of your evening.
Built on our Paradiso Combination Platter, served family-style on injera so the table reaches in together. Doro wat, kitfo, tibs and shiro with seasonal vegetables, refilled as the room empties the platter.
1,450 ETB per person — also offered as a platter for two or three.
Prices include tax. Menu can be tailored.Shiro, misir wat, gomen and atkilt, all cooked without meat or dairy, spooned across injera in the traditional fasting style. A favourite for memorial lunches and mixed tables where everyone shares the same dishes.
780 ETB per person
Prices include tax. Menu can be tailored.Green beans roasted over coals at your table, hand-ground and brewed in a jebena, served with popcorn and incense. Offered for two at 420 ETB and sized up for groups — a natural close to a cultural evening or a cooking demonstration.
420 ETB for two, scaled for larger groups.
Prices include tax. Menu can be tailored.The private room is held by hand, not by a booking system — one phone call and we take it from there.
Ring +251 11 662 3344 between 12:00 and 23:00, any day of the week. You will speak with a member of the family who runs the floor, not a call centre.
Prefer to talk it through in person? Drop by Bole Road and we will walk you through the room.
Have four things ready: the date, the time you would like to sit down, the number of guests, and any dietary needs — fasting days, allergies, dishes without dairy, or a table that needs to be entirely meat-free.
We can seat intimate dinners of ten through to larger celebrations, so give us your best estimate of numbers.
Once we have your date and time, we hold the private room for you and confirm the menu — the Sharing Feast, the Vegetarian Fasting Platter, the Coffee Ceremony, or a combination tailored to your group.
Menus can be adjusted up to a few days before, and all prices include tax.
For larger groups we recommend booking at least a week ahead — the room fills quickly for Friday and Saturday evenings, when live traditional music plays in the main dining room, and for weekend family gatherings and memorial lunches.
Smaller dinners of ten or so can often be arranged at shorter notice. If your date is close, call anyway and we will tell you honestly what is possible.
Call +251 11 662 3344 to reserveTell us the date, the time and how many are coming, and we will set the mesob tables, light the candles and have the coffee beans ready for the coals. Call us on +251 11 662 3344 and we will confirm your menu and hold the private room for your gathering.
We recommend booking at least a week ahead for larger groups, and we are glad to tailor any set menu around dietary needs.
Bole Road, Bole
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Parking is available on the side street just off Bole Road.
Open daily, 12:00–23:00.
Private dining bookings can be arranged within these hours for seated dinners and standing receptions.
Traditional Ethiopian music, live on Friday and Saturday evenings.
Ask us when you call if you would like your gathering timed around the music.