Charlotte, NC
For Ethiopian in Charlotte, the local food press points to Abugida Ethiopian Cafe & Restaurant and Enat Ethiopian Restaurant. Picks from Axios Charlotte and Charlotte Magazine, updated July 2026.
Editor’s picks
Press picks, until locals rank their own Top 5s. Sourced from the local food press. As seen in Axios Charlotte, Charlotte Magazine, and Queen City Nerve. Updated July 2026.
Abugida Ethiopian Cafe & Restaurant · Plaza Midwood
A brother-and-sister kitchen at 3007 Central Avenue where the meat and vegetarian feast platters arrive spread across injera and everybody at the table eats with their hands. Gomen, red lentil wat and tibs cover the spread, and coffee is poured from a jebena at the end if you have the time to sit for it.
Enat Ethiopian Restaurant · East Charlotte
Chef and owner Tina Tedla named the place for the Amharic word for mother and cooks from her mother's recipes. Lentil sambusas, doro wat and kitfo come off a menu built on house-ground berbere, with injera made fresh daily, and she has run it long enough now to open a second counter at Optimist Hall.
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