Our heritage
ehtmamachoch
“Sisters” — the name we started with, and the spirit we kept.
Long before the name above the door, there was "ehtmamachoch" — Amharic for "Sisters." It began in 2018 with two sisters, one jebena of coffee, and a handful of tables set out on a borrowed veranda. Word travelled the way it always does here: by taste, and by how people were treated. A cafe became a kitchen; a kitchen earned its rooms. The name has since changed, but the practice has not — the same hands roast the beans, the same recipes fill the plates, and the same welcome meets every guest at the gate.
2018 → today
How we grew
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2018
Two sisters open a handful of tables and a single jebena under the name ehtmamachoch.
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2020
The cafe grows into a full kitchen, serving Ethiopian dishes from morning coffee to evening dinner.
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2022
The first guest rooms open upstairs — the cafe becomes a place to stay the night, not just the afternoon.
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Today
A cafe, a kitchen, and a hotel — the same welcome, now under one name and one roof.
The sisters
Who we are
Hanna
Co-founder & Head of Coffee
Roasts every batch by hand and runs the coffee ceremony that started it all. If you smell frankincense at the door, she is already pouring.
Marta
Co-founder & Head of Kitchen
Keeps the recipes the sisters grew up on and the rooms warm for every guest. Nothing leaves her kitchen she would not serve her own family.
Coffee is our way of saying: sit down, you are among family now.