12 Best Bakeries in Tbilisi

Some bakeries are a walk and this one is a drive. The Osetian Khachapuri House is a Georgian bakery counter on Tianeti Highway, up in Nadzaladevi rather than the old town. Google files it as fast food as much as a bakery. Delicious food is its most repeated review topic, at 23 mentions, ahead of kubdari at 9 and lobiani at 8. It holds 4.8 from 468 Google reviews. Come here when the bread is the plan and there's nothing after it, any day between 9 AM and 10 PM.

Cakes are the whole point of this counter, at 91 mentions in the review topics against khachapuri at 22 and desserts at 13. Madart is a Georgian confectionery on Omar Khizanishvili Street in Nadzaladevi, founded in 2009 and now at 5 branches across the city. It runs its own delivery couriers and puts more than 800 people on the payroll. The rating is 4.7 from 1,538 reviews. Come here when you've got a birthday to feed rather than an afternoon to fill. Doors are 8:30 AM to 10:30 PM, 7 days a week, and the entrance and the car park are both step-free.

A pastry counter that puts a date on itself is making a promise, and this one says 1822. Matasse1822 is on Vertskhli Street in Old Tbilisi, calling itself a coffee laboratory as much as a confectionery, with desserts at 166 review topics and the interior at 160. It holds 4.7 from 795 reviews, and friendly staff takes another 80 mentions. Come here when you'd rather sit down with the pastry than carry it away: breakfast is on the listing from 9:30 AM, the Wi-Fi is free and dogs are allowed. It shuts at 10:30 PM, 7 days a week.

A bakery run is better when you can eat the thing warm, and this is the stop for that. Madame Choux is a patisserie down at the quiet end of Kote Afkhazi, open 10 AM to 10 PM daily and holding 4.7 from 399 reviews. The counter runs past choux into Portuguese pastel de nata, croissants and scones, with specialty coffee and a breakfast menu behind it. Seating is the catch: 2 tables indoors and the rest of it out in the courtyard, which is where you'd want to be on a warm morning anyway.

The queue is the giveaway, because the bakery itself is below the pavement. Caravanserai Bakery is a counter on Sioni Street, under the stairs across from the Tbilisi History Museum. Its review topics run to a hidden bakery, an underground place and the oldest bakery in town. It holds 4.6 from 239 reviews and opens 11 AM to 9 PM daily. Come here when you want lunch to cost about what a coffee does, and bring cash, because that's the only thing the counter takes. Google's pin is wrong, so aim for the museum.

Shoti is the bread you'll buy more often than anything else in this city, and this counter does almost nothing but. Tone is a small bakery on Amaghleba Street in Old Tbilisi, marked on Google as takeout and a quick visit. Fresh bread, the oven and bread itself make up most of what its review topics cover. It holds 4.7 from 66 reviews, and Google puts the price band at 1 to 10 GEL. Come here when you need bread rather than an outing, any time between 8 AM and 10 PM.

The kitchens along Davit Aghmashenebeli shut long before the sweet tooth does. This counter doesn't. Cafe 43 is a pastry shop on the avenue holding 4.6 from 151 Google reviews, and its own Google listing runs to a single word: pastry. Lemon leads its review topics at 7 mentions, with strawberry on 4 and the mousse on 3, so the fruit work is where the kitchen spends its effort. Warm staff picks up 2 mentions of its own. Come here when dinner ran long and you'd rather sit down with the coffee than carry a box home. It's open 9 AM to 12 AM, 7 days a week.

Most of this list is built on sugar. This one is built on bread. Brod is a small shop on Egnate Ninoshvili Street holding 4.5 from 75 Google reviews, and the baking happens in an open kitchen rather than out of sight. Sourdough takes 4 mentions in its review topics, ciabatta 3 and rye bread 2, with the croissant and the cardamom bun on 5 each. A cosy atmosphere gets 2 mentions, but this is a counter to stop at rather than a room to sit in, so plan on leaving with the bag. It runs 8 AM to 8 PM, 7 days a week.

Isani doesn't turn up often on a Tbilisi bakery list, and this is the entry that puts it there. Dolce Vita is a pastry shop on Romanoz Khomleli Street holding 4.5 from 1,670 Google reviews, and great dessert is the single highlight on its Google listing. That listing also marks it for a quick visit, flags the entrance as not wheelchair accessible and records no restroom, so it's a counter rather than a room to settle into. Come here when the cake is the plan and the eating happens somewhere else. It's open 9 AM to 10 PM daily.

Get here in the morning or don't bother. One 4-star reviewer's warning is that the good things have sold out by the afternoon, and the almond croissant, at 7 mentions in the review topics, is the first thing to go. Breadbar is a bakery on Nikolioz Kipshidze Street holding 4.4 from 261 Google reviews, and friendly staff is its loudest topic at 14 mentions. It cooks a proper breakfast alongside the counter, and its own listing takes keto and diabetic dessert orders. The doors open at 8 AM and shut at 10 PM, or 9:30 PM on Sundays.

Lika is a cake shop first and a bakery second, and its review topics say so: cakes take 29 mentions and desserts 21, with eclairs and bird's milk behind them. It's on Irakli Abashidze Street in Vake, holding 4.3 from 375 Google reviews, and its own Google listing is a single line in Georgian about homemade cakes and pastries. The counter runs savoury too, with khachapuri at 3 mentions and pkhali and salads at 2 each, and Google puts a spend here at 20 to 70 GEL. Queues take 3 mentions, so pick a quieter hour if you're only after coffee.

The baking at this end of Davit Aghmashenebeli is Turkish, and Sapore is where most of it sits. It's a pastry shop holding 4.3 from 1,033 Google reviews, with baklava at 64 mentions in its review topics, Turkish delight at 29, milk cake at 18 and kunafa at 10. Google gives it great dessert as a highlight and lists breakfast, coffee and a restroom, so you can sit with it rather than carry it off. Where it slips is the counter service: all 3 of its recent 1-star reviews are about being served, not about the baking. It runs 8:30 AM to 11 PM daily.