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our favourites, but you can bet your sweet tooth that by the time you get there you'll find
a couple of new ones to add to this list.
CAFE
Tomoca
(Wavel St; coffee Birr7)
Ahh, if only all cafes were like this one! Coffee is serious busi-
ness at this great old Italian cafe in Piazza. The beans are roasted on site (you can literally
smell them roasting from a block away) and Tomoca serves what's likely the capital's best
coffee. If that isn't enough, it's also dripping in 1920s atmosphere. Beans are also sold by
the half-kilo (from Birr60).
La Parisienne
(Gabon St; pastries Birr10-15; 6am-8pm)
If you're staying in the Bole Rd part of
town (in fact, even if you're not), then there's only one place for breakfast and that's this
megapopular terrace cafe with superb coffee, fair impersonations of croissants and freshly
squeezed orange juice. If the waitresses could only develop more of a Gallic 'I can't be
bothered to serve you' shrug then you'd think you were on the Champs-Élysées. There are
several other branches throughout the city but this one is considered the best.
CAFE
Cup Cake Delights Cafe
(off Bole Rd; cup cakes Birr15)
Red Velvet. Caribbean Breeze. Vanilla Fever. Brunette.
The bright and bubbly names and flavours of the cup cakes on sale here are highly appro-
priate for a cafe that is in itself a bright and bubbly place full of the hopeful and young of
Addis. However, if we have one criticism it's that they've gone a little overboard with the
amount of icing atop each cake. As any good Englishman or woman will tell you, cup
cakes are supposed to be subtle!
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Oslo Cafe
(Dejazmach Jote St; pastries Birr10-15; 6am-9pm)
Luscious lip-gloss red and easily
the most popular of the numerous bright, modern Western-style coffee shops around the
Piazza area.
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