Century Mall is not somewhere I would visit specifically for food. Most people go there to shop, meet someone, run an errand or spend time around CMC.
Then, after walking around for a while, hunger becomes part of the plan.
The good thing is that you do not have to leave the area immediately to find something to eat. There is pizza for groups, chicken and rice when you want a proper meal, and a few places nearby that are worth considering if you are tired of eating from the same major chains.
Here are the food places I would look at around Century Mall and what I would actually order from them.
Pizza Hut Century Mall When You Are Eating With Other People
Pizza Hut Century Mall makes the most sense when choosing food has become a group discussion.
That happens often enough. One person wants meat, someone else wants chicken, and somebody at the table does not eat either.
Instead of trying to find a restaurant that everybody agrees on, pizza solves the problem reasonably well.
The Century Mall branch has options including Pepperoni, Chicken Supreme, Meat Lovers, Super Supreme, Chicken & Mushroom, Mushroom Lovers and several vegetarian pizzas.
For a group, I would not order three pizzas with similar toppings. A better table would be one meat-heavy pizza, one chicken option and one vegetarian pizza.
If I had to choose one pizza for people who cannot agree, I would probably pick Super Supreme. It has enough toppings to keep the slices interesting without leaning entirely toward one flavour.
For something less loaded, Chicken & Mushroom is one of the safer choices on the menu. It is not trying too hard, and chicken and mushroom is usually easy to share with people who have different tastes.
The vegetarian pizzas are also worth considering rather than treating the meat-free option as an afterthought. Veggie Supreme, Hot & Spicy Veg and Tropical Veggie give the group more variety than simply ordering a plain cheese pizza for the person who does not eat meat.
The branch also has pasta, calzones, sides and desserts. That matters when somebody at the table is not particularly interested in pizza.
Pizza Hut is not the place I would recommend for discovering an unusual style of pizza. You already know roughly what to expect before ordering.
But after an afternoon of shopping, that can be exactly what you want.
Sishu When Pizza and Fried Chicken Are Not Appealing
There are days when another pizza or fried chicken meal just does not sound particularly exciting.
Sishu is worth looking at for those days.
It is listed as an American restaurant and works better for someone ordering an individual meal rather than trying to feed a table with several shared pizzas.
I would be more likely to consider it when shopping alone or meeting one person at Century Mall. Pizza Hut works better when everyone is sharing. Sishu makes more sense when you want your own meal and do not need to negotiate an order with five other people.
It also has a good local rating, although I would not choose a restaurant purely because of a number next to its name. Ratings can tell you that people generally like a place, but they do not tell you what you will personally want to eat that afternoon.
For me, the reason to consider Sishu is simpler: it breaks the usual mall-food routine.
Cooking Master for Chicken and Rice
Sometimes pizza feels like too much bread, and fries do not feel like lunch.
That is when I would look at Cooking Master.
The chicken-and-rice dishes make it a useful alternative when you want something more like an actual lunch or dinner. Local food coverage has highlighted dishes such as sweet-and-sour chicken and orange chicken served with rice.
That combination would probably be my choice after several hours of shopping.
Rice changes the meal completely. You sit down with something filling rather than picking at slices, fries or snacks.
I would not travel across Addis specifically to eat here, but if I was already at Century Mall and wanted chicken with rice, I would take that over another burger-and-fries meal.
Sometimes the best restaurant choice is simply the one that gives you something different from what you have already eaten three times that week.
Yummy Pizza Is Worth the Short Trip From CMC
Yummy Pizza is not inside Century Mall, so it requires leaving the mall area.
Still, if you are around CMC and have time, I think it deserves consideration.
I would not compare it directly with Pizza Hut because they offer different reasons to visit. Pizza Hut is easier when you are already shopping and want something familiar. Yummy Pizza is more interesting when you deliberately want to try another pizza place.
The menu has options such as Pizza Quattro Stagioni and calzones, which already makes it more interesting than simply choosing between pepperoni and chicken.
The calzone is what would catch my attention first.
It is not just pizza folded over for the sake of looking different. A good calzone has a completely different eating experience: more filling, more compact and usually much messier than a normal slice.
That is exactly why I would order it.
Independent restaurants can also change their menus or availability more often than major chains, so I would check before travelling specifically for a particular item.
But if you are bored with the familiar brands and want to try another pizza place around CMC, Yummy Pizza is one of the places I would put on the list.
Cork Wine for a Slower Meal
Cork Wine belongs to a different part of the food conversation around Century Mall.
You would not necessarily go there because you need food as quickly as possible between two shopping stops.
The appeal is more in sitting down and taking your time.
Local food recommendations have mentioned dishes such as lasagna served with salad, and that is exactly the kind of thing I would order here.
Lasagna gives you the comfort of Italian-style food without ending up with another pizza.
That distinction sounds minor until you realise how often people default to pizza simply because they cannot decide what else to eat.
If I had already eaten pizza recently and wanted something warm and familiar, lasagna would be an easy alternative.
Cork Wine makes more sense when the meal is part of the outing rather than something you are trying to finish before continuing with your shopping.
What I Would Choose After a Day at Century Mall
If I was with family or a group of friends, I would probably end up at Pizza Hut Century Mall. It is the easiest option when everyone wants something different, and ordering several pizza flavours solves the problem without too much discussion.
If I was eating alone and wanted something outside the usual pizza-and-chicken rotation, I would look at Sishu or Cooking Master.
For a proper chicken-and-rice meal, Cooking Master would be my choice.
If I had finished shopping and felt like trying a different pizza place rather than the major chains, I would consider going to Yummy Pizza, particularly for a calzone or one of its less standard pizza choices.
And if there was no rush and the plan was to actually sit down for a meal, Cork Wine would make more sense than grabbing fast food.
It Depends More on Your Appetite Than the Mall
The food around Century Mall is not about finding one restaurant that beats everything else.
It depends on why you are eating.
Are you feeding a family? Do you want something quick before going home? Have you had pizza twice already this week? Are you looking for lunch or just trying to stop being hungry long enough to finish shopping?
Those questions will probably help you choose better than any list of restaurant ratings.
Century Mall and the surrounding CMC area give you enough options to move between pizza, chicken, rice and Italian-style dishes without travelling far.
Personally, I would start with Pizza Hut when I was feeding several people, choose Cooking Master when I wanted rice, head to Yummy Pizza when I felt like trying a different pizza place, and save Cork Wine for a meal where I was not watching the clock.
That is probably the easiest way to approach eating around Century Mall: decide what you are hungry for first, then choose the restaurant.
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