15 Best Breakfast and Brunch Spots in Tbilisi

Nobody here is rushing you out for the lunch service, because lunch is just the next thing on the same menu. It's a casual room on Shalva Dadiani in Sololaki, with a bar onsite and a barista the reviews name almost as often as the food. Brunch, lunch, dinner and dessert are all on it, and the doors are open 10 AM to 11 PM, 7 days a week. Come here when your table wants eggs at noon and someone else wants something off the bar. Google puts a meal at 20 to 30 GEL and rates it 4.9 from 48 reviews.

Shakshuka comes up in 59 Google reviews here, which is not a menu, it's a verdict. It's a small family-run Georgian place on Grigol Khandzteli, rustic inside, with an air-conditioned room downstairs and 694 Google reviews averaging 4.9. One reviewer counts only 2 tables outside, so in summer you either get there early or you sit in. It's shut on Mondays, and Tuesday to Thursday the doors are 9 AM to 9 PM, so a 4 PM breakfast is a real option. Come here when you want the Georgian version of a long morning rather than a flat white.

Some brunches are an event. This one is a galette, a pot of tea and classical music on vinyl, which is exactly what the cafe means when its own description promises a relaxed late breakfast. It's a women-owned room on Lado Asatiani, rated 5 from 264 Google reviews, quiet enough for a laptop and stocked with wine and cocktails if the morning is going that way. Dogs are allowed, the Wi-Fi is free and it takes reservations. Doors 10 AM to 8 PM every day, and Google's price band is 10 to 20 GEL.

The entrance is tucked into a residential building and one reviewer calls it hidden, so give yourself a minute to find the door. Inside, the room on Ivane Javakhishvili is small and the kitchen is open, and 1,220 Google reviews have it at 4.8. The menu is the healthy end of brunch: vegan options run through it and smoothies sit next to the eggs. It opens 10 AM on weekdays and 9:30 AM at weekends, shuts by 4:30 or 5 PM, and takes cards only, so do not arrive with cash and a plan.

Home food turns up in 27 Google reviews here and friendly owners in 17, which tells you what kind of place this is before anyone hands you a menu. Cafe Irioni is a small family kitchen out in Isani doing Georgian cooking, rated 4.9 across 385 Google reviews, with the pork shashlik cooked on a BBQ in the garden. The host explains how each dish is made and what they drink themselves. It opens 10:30 AM and runs to midnight, 7 days a week. Come here when the plan is a long Georgian table rather than a quick plate of eggs.

Brunch does not have to mean eggs. Big Sam's opens at 11:30 AM out on David Agmashenebeli Alley and stays open until 4:30 AM, so it covers both ends of a weekend: the late start, and the thing you eat instead of sleeping. Google has it at 4.9 from 321 reviews, and it is set up for groups, with a kids' menu, high chairs, table service and a free car park Google calls usually plenty of parking. Halal food, vegetarian options, delivery and takeaway are all on the listing.

If your brunch problem is that everything opens at noon, this is the fix. Breakfast starts at 7:30 AM here and runs until 11 PM, with a brunch window that opens at 11 AM. It's a specialty coffee shop on Merab Kostava, across the road from the metro, rated 4.9 from 299 Google reviews, and the garden gets 5 mentions of its own. A September reviewer says the place is still being renovated. The same counter sells tours, so you can order a sandwich and a trip to Kazbegi in one go.

You are here for falafel, obviously, and 193 Google reviews say the same thing. The brunch case is narrower and it works: Friday and Saturday the counter opens at 11 AM, and the shakshuka has 11 mentions of its own. It's a Middle Eastern street food place on Lermontov, rated 4.8 across 538 reviews, with outdoor seating named in 9 of them and not much room inside. One reviewer warns there is no toilet, so plan that part elsewhere. Come here when you want brunch you can carry to Gudiashvili park instead of sitting down.

Nothing here opens before noon, which makes it brunch for a Saturday you've already half wasted. It's a Persian and halal kitchen on Gagarini in Vake-Saburtalo, with a cosy indoor hall and a garden of traditional takhts. Halal food is named in 26 reviews and hookah in 13, and the listing puts families, groups and tourists in the room. It suits a long lunch with the kids, or a plate on your own. Doors run 12 to 11 PM daily, and cash only comes up 7 times, so bring some.

Breakfast here is a pastry counter first and a kitchen second, and a 9 AM opening is the other reason to come. It's a patisserie on Paolo Iashvili in Sololaki, doing French-inspired desserts and specialty coffee, with a terrace outside and a room its listing calls quiet. Solo dining is what the place is most used for, and Google puts the spend at 10 to 20 GEL. It runs to 9 PM, 7 days a week, so come when you want the morning to yourself.

11:11 does its best work in the morning, which isn't what a room open to 3 AM on Fridays would suggest. It's a cafe on Giorgi Leonidze St at Liberty Square, and its listing puts breakfast and lunch at the top of what people come for. Welcoming staff is named in 15 reviews and a quiet room in 7. There's free Wi-Fi if the morning turns into an afternoon, and parking is usually easy. Doors at 9 AM, and it shuts Sundays, so your Sunday plan is somewhere else.

Some brunches end when the plates go. This one keeps more than 300 wines and stays open until 2 AM, so it ends when you decide it does. St.Bunny is a Georgian and European kitchen with a terrace, near Rustaveli on Griboedov, serving breakfast and brunch as well as dinner. Hookah is named in 445 reviews and a sommelier in 140, which tells you what the afternoon becomes. It opens at 11 AM daily, so come when brunch is really the start of the day out.

Breakfast here is less a plate than a drink and something to hold. Rituals is a matcha bar and coffee shop on Tsinamdzghvrishvili St, and its breakfast menu runs 9 AM to 8 PM daily, which is a generous reading of the meal. Cosy spot is the phrase 7 of its reviews land on, and the listing sells calm as hard as coffee. The same listing has a pilates and yoga studio, on daily and monthly passes. Come when you've woken up late and want nobody hurrying you.

Weller only does brunch at the weekend: Saturday and Sunday, 1 to 5 PM, and the rest of the week the doors don't open until 3 PM. It's the Communal Company's Levantine room in Plekhanovi, with a fireplace, a bar on site and dogs allowed at the table. Cocktails are named in 82 reviews and naan in 45, which is a reasonable afternoon plan. It suits a slow table that turns into an evening. Dinner reservations are recommended, and a 10% service charge lands on your bill.

Breakfast here is served in an apartment, which in Tbilisi is less strange than it sounds. Chaduna works out of one on Galaktion Tabidze near Liberty Square, and its description settles for calling itself cosy. All-day breakfast is the point, built on syrniki, bruschetta and shakshuka, with more than 60 wines on the same list. One reviewer calls the mornings very busy and the food fast anyway, so come early. It runs 9 AM to 11 PM, except Mondays, when it shuts at 3 PM.