Shilmat Tessema has mastered making food that you don’t need utensils to eat. Tessema, head chef and owner of Lalibela Ethiopian Restaurant, serves food she has been cooking and eating her whole life ...

Tucked away in a small strip center next to a Valero station near the forgotten remnants of Valley View Mall sits Agoza Kitchen, a small hole-in-the-wall that sells Ethiopian staples and serves some ...

5280: How did you come to start a business in Colorado? Fetien Gebre-Michael: My family immigrated from Ethiopia by way of Israel. There was a war going on in Ethiopia in the 1970s and my parents and ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story that originally ran Sept. 28, 2021, was updated May 20, 2022, with the opening date. The last food spot at north Charlotte’s Optimist Hall has been filled by a popular ...