15 Best Asian Restaurants in Tbilisi

Siam's chef and owner is Thai, and the reviews keep coming back to that fact. The room is a high-ceilinged basement in Old Tbilisi, holding 4.9 from 607 Google reviews. Google tags it casual and cosy, good for kids and popular with solo diners, and the menu is long enough to keep a group busy. Come here when you've had 4 days of Georgian food and your palate wants chilli and fish sauce. It's closed Mondays, runs 12 PM to 10:30 PM otherwise, and takes reservations.

Most Asian restaurants in this city pick a country and stay there. Orbeliani runs Japanese, Chinese and Thai off the same pass, which is how a table ends up with ramen at one end and bao buns at the other. It's a women-owned dining room on Pkhovi Street with outdoor seating, 1,718 Google reviews at 4.8, and a listing that tags it quiet, cosy and fine with dogs. Book if you're coming for dinner: the listing recommends it, and the crowd of groups and tourists explains why. The kitchen runs 12 PM to 12 AM, 7 days a week.

Nobody sends you to Saburtalo for sushi, which is most of what you need to know about Saikou. It's a small Japanese room on Archil Tsagareli Street with a bar on site and a free parking lot, rated 4.8 across 892 Google reviews. Google's topic list puts cosy place at 26 mentions and tags the room romantic, trendy and quiet, which covers a date and a solo seat equally well. One reviewer names the owner, Georgi, as on site and hands-on about the food and the service. It shuts on Mondays and runs 12:30 to 10 PM the rest of the week.

Yuki Yume is 4 tables in a basement on Tkviavi Street, and the reviews treat that as the appeal rather than the warning. One reviewer calls it family owned and run. That fits a kitchen holding 4.9 from 279 Google reviews, with no website and a listing that says only that it delivers sushi. The trade-off is time: waits of 40 to 80 minutes come up often enough to plan around. Come here when you've got an evening rather than half an hour. Mondays are out; otherwise it opens at 2 PM, 3 PM on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and runs to 11 PM.

Sushi Way's real advantage is the clock. It runs 10 AM to 2 AM, 7 days a week, from Kazbegi Avenue, and 3 reviews mention a second branch in Isani. Rolls are the entire conversation across its 495 Google reviews: 27 name the rolls and 3 the roll size, with the baked salmon roll the one that repeats. Come here when the night has gone long and the alternative is a bakery. It delivers as well, and one reviewer calls that side fast and well organised.

A Thai restaurant decorated like a wizarding school sounds like somewhere the theme does the cooking. Lumos, on Gia Abesadze Street, works the other way round: the theme is on the walls and the tom yum picks up 19 mentions in the reviews. It was Yummy Thai before the rename, it holds 4.8 from 453 Google reviews, and the listing carries a kids' menu, vegetarian options and a tag for groups. Come here when your table splits between kids and people who want it spicy. It's open 11:30 AM to 11:30 PM daily, and street parking is usually a fight.

Not every dinner needs a dining room. KaPaoBox is a Thai fast-food kitchen on Ovanes Tumaniani Street, next door to Bollywood Masala, with a handful of seats. Its own listing says the menu changes every month. The reviews land on the same 2 facts: the portions are generous and the seats run out. It holds 4.8 from 406 Google reviews. Come here when you're hungry, in a hurry and on a budget, which is how the place describes its own customer. Dine-in runs 12:30 to 10 PM daily, and takeaway stops at 6 PM and pauses on Wednesdays.

1,962 Google reviews is a lot of sushi to account for, and Oishi has done it from Kazbegi Avenue at a 4.7 average. Its own listing leads on speed rather than on the room. The room is small: Google's topic list puts small place at 6 mentions. What it does have is a 10 AM to 2 AM day, 7 days a week. There's a booking link too, for the nights you want a table rather than a bag. Come here when it's late, you want rolls, and the last thing you plan to do is cook.

Onigiri is not a thing this city does, which is the first argument for 808. It's a small Asian street food kitchen on Merab Kostava Street that doubles as a specialty coffee and matcha bar, holding 4.8 from 345 Google reviews. 2 of the newest reviews name the vegan options, and 3 more reach for the same word about the room: atmosphere. It runs 11 AM to 11 PM, 7 days a week, with delivery on the same hours, so lunch and a late dinner are the same decision.

2 of the newest reviews here are about a delivery bag rather than a table. Sushi Icons works out of Simon Kandelaki Street in Saburtalo, and its own listing dates the brand to 2017 and stretches it from Kyiv to Warsaw. The dine-in side is casual and quiet, with outdoor seating, free Wi-Fi and a free parking lot, tagged family-friendly and fine with dogs inside. It doesn't take reservations, so turning up is the whole plan. The kitchen runs 12 PM to 12 AM, 7 days a week.

Nothing about the room tells you what's coming. Kasorn is a women-owned Thai kitchen with a cafe corner on Shalva Dadiani Street, rated 4.9 across 117 Google reviews. Reviews name thai food 37 times and authentic thai food 6 more. The listing tags it casual and cosy, good for groups and for kids, and puts vegetarian options and a kids' menu on the same page. One reviewer's warning is to ask for low spiciness, because the standard is already very spicy. It's open 12:30 to 11 PM daily.

Family-owned is usually a line on a menu. At K-Restaurant it's the staffing: the listing says 2 brothers and their mother cook and serve together, and authentic korean food is a review topic 13 times. The room on Dimitri Uznadze Street is small, and Google tags it cosy. It's rated 4.8 from 165 reviews, with kind staff at 12 mentions and refillable side dishes at 2. It takes reservations, suits groups and lets dogs in. Doors are 2 to 10 PM, Tuesday to Sunday, and its Instagram puts the last order at 9 PM.

The owner changed a year ago and the menu got shorter. One returning reviewer says the flavours are still there, the room is like visiting someone's apartment, and 3 dishes reached the table inside 10 minutes. The Noodle House makes its own noodles on Ovanes Tumaniani Street and cooks Thai alongside them. It holds 4.9 from 104 Google reviews, with thai food named 19 times. There's air conditioning inside and seats outside. It's open 12:30 to 10 PM, 7 days a week.

Sushi and a cocktail list rarely come off the same counter, and Lion's runs both from Leo Kiacheli Street until 1 AM, 7 days a week. Its listing reads like 2 businesses stacked: happy hour drinks and happy hour food, hard liquor and coffee. There's also a salad bar, vegan options, a kids' menu and high chairs. Google tags the room casual and cosy, LGBTQ+ friendly and good for groups, and it takes reservations. 2 reviewers describe walking into an empty bar, which is a warning on a Saturday and the reason you'd pick it on a Tuesday.

4 or 5 tables, no outdoor seating, and a room this size means you're best coming as a pair. Asiatique House is a family-run Asian kitchen on Shota Rustaveli Avenue, cooking Thai, Japanese and Vietnamese off one menu. It holds 4.9 from 100 Google reviews, and the word that repeats across them is authentic. Come here when a friend is in town and the pair of you want something that isn't Georgian. It's open 1 PM to 10 PM, Tuesday to Sunday, and closed on Mondays.