I ate Ethiopian food for the first time in Lalibela, and it's a place I periodically keep coming back to, introducing friends to its extensive plates of good food with plenty of injera and strong black coffee delivered, with ceremony, with a side order of popcorn. (It actually does work.)
I love Lalibela. So far, the friends I've taken to this restaurant, often exposing them to Ethiopian food for the first time, agree with me about this.