Syracuse, N.Y. — A Syracuse restaurant is among the 20 best new restaurants in the world, according to a new CNN story.

The list, published Monday, named EthioEritrea Restaurant, which opened at 505 N. State St. in Syracuse in November, as one of its best new spots in the world.

The restaurant is owned by Tesfahiwot Okube, an Eritrean native who first cooked professionally at a cafe in the Ethiopian refugee camp he called home for seven years before coming to Syracuse.

“The ten-table restaurant, located in Syracuse, retains the family style feel of his former cafe,” the story reads. “Wicker baskets known as mesobs serve as communal serving dishes, and it’s a meal about far more than the food.”

The menu consists of traditional Ethiopian and Eritrean dishes, many of which start with injera, a sourdough teff flour flatbread that is used as a utensil for the stews—or wots—and other dishes. Among the other specialties of the restaurant is the formal coffee ceremony, in which the coffee beans are roasted over an open flame, ground, mixed with water and spices in an earthen pot called a jebena and heated over coals, resulting in a uniquely bold, thick, spiced coffee.

The restaurant is open Monday to Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Sunday, from noon to 8 p.m.

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