Heber Market hosts an Ethiopian restaurant, cafe, and grocery store

A new Ethiopian shop in Bailey’s Crossroad, Heber Market & Café, consists of a grocery store, restaurant, and coffee shop.

It’s located in the former FedEx space at 3515 S. Jefferson Street in Leesburg Pike Plaza.

The market stocks organic spices and herbs, grains, incense, coffee, woven baskets, and other items from Ethiopia; Middle Eastern imports; pantry staples, and housewares. Meat is butchered in-house.

The restaurant, upstairs in a loft space overlooking the market, offers traditional Ethiopian fare served on injera, fermented flatbread made from teff flour.

The café serves Ethiopian coffee and French pastries made in the store.

Heber Market is the biggest Ethiopian store in Northern Virginia, says owner Mathewos Paulas, who immigrated to the U.S. from Addis Ababa seven years ago. His family owns a similar store in Las Vegas.

Mathewos’ wife, Lina Tigabu, says “heber” means “united together.”