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February 4th, 2021 in Business. Closed
Fekere Gebre-Mariam, owner of Rosalind’s Restaurant in LA s Little Ethiopia, and his youngest daughter, Meklit, simply call this neighborhood home. (LA Eater)
LA Eater
Look closer at the restaurants on Fairfax Avenue with its founding family
The heavily trafficked stretch of Ethiopian-owned businesses along Fairfax Avenue goes by a few different names. It was initially known as Little Addis a nod to Ethiopia’s capital city of Addis Ababa when entrepreneurial Ethiopians began laying down roots between Olympic Boulevard and Whitworth Drive in the late ’80s and early ’90s. As the number of restaurants, grocers, clothiers, and salons grew along the corridor, the street was officially anointed Little Ethiopia by the Los Angeles City Council in 2002. But 68-year-old Fekere Gebre-Mariam and his youngest daughter, Meklit, simply call this neighborhood home.