14 Best Burgers in Tbilisi

You have to leave the old town for this one, and the taxi is part of the deal. Big Sam's is an American kitchen on David Agmashenebeli Alley doing burgers, tacos, burritos and hot dogs, and it holds 4.9 from 321 Google reviews. Burgers come up 29 times in them, more than any other dish. Come here when the burger is the entire plan and you'd rather drive than walk, because the car park is free. It's open from 11:30 AM until 4:30 AM, every day of the week.

Some burger places are a counter and a queue. This one's a family business going since 2014, on Samghebro Street, with a terrace, a small balcony and a few seats inside, the lot of it packed with stickers, toys and anime posters. Everything is made in house, from the buns baked daily to the sauces, the marinades and the fruit lemonades. It suits a long dinner where the view does half the work, and it rewards a look at the hours first: closed Mondays, open from 2 PM Tuesday to Friday and 12 PM at weekends, until 11:30 PM.

The address is the 1875 Hotel London building on Atoneli Street, and the menu is deliberately short: New York style burgers, sliders, barbecue ribs, crispy mushrooms, fries and cookies, with a speakeasy bar at the back. Google rates it 4.8 from 358 reviews and puts a meal at 30 to 40 GEL. It's dine-in only, dogs are allowed inside, and its Instagram runs a happy hour every day from 2 to 6 PM. Pick it for the night you want dinner to turn into drinks: doors shut at 2 AM, and at 5 AM on Fridays and Saturdays.

Google files this one under hamburger restaurant alongside pizza, shawarma, falafel and halal, which tells you how wide the board runs. It's a kitchen opposite the bus station on Mirian Mepe Street, cooking in front of you, and its own listing sells bread baked daily and HACCP certification alongside the food. The rating is 4.7 from 312 reviews. Come here when you have a bus to catch and want something hot, or when the table needs halal. Hours are 10 AM to 9 PM, every day.

Rustaveli Avenue isn't where you'd expect a rabbit burger, and this one takes 31 mentions in the review topics. Burger House sits at number 17, holding 4.6 from 2,213 Google reviews. The menu runs chicken, beef, lamb, duck, pork belly, shrimp and veggie, and halal comes up 68 times. This is the one for a table where everyone wants a different animal. It's open 12 PM to 10:30 PM daily, and one reviewer warns the avenue itself is dug up at the moment.

Not every burger has to come from a burger place. Crossroads Bistro is an all-day room on Shalva Dadiani, where brunch, lunch, dinner and dessert all come off the one menu between 10 AM and 11 PM, 7 days a week. There's a bar on site, and Google rates it 4.9 from 48 reviews at 20 to 30 GEL a head. Come here when one of you wants brioche and bacon and the rest of the table wants shakshuka, falafel or beef cheeks.

The move here is a table outside, and the fireplace takes 3 mentions in the review topics. Burger Space sits on Mtskheta Street, casual and trendy by Google's own tags, with a bar on site, dogs allowed inside and out, and a crowd of students, groups and tourists. It holds 4.6 from 445 reviews and a meal lands at 20 to 30 GEL. Bring the group that's 6 people with 6 opinions about sides. Doors open at 11 AM and shut at 1 AM, or 3 AM on Fridays and Saturdays.

The juicy lucy is the headline here, at 18 mentions in the review topics against 9 for the smash burger. Just Burgers is a counter-service room on Roman Miminoshvili Street that serves beer, rated 4.6 from 333 Google reviews, and its own listing calls it the number 1 American burger place in Tbilisi. One reviewer says the meat gets ground right after you order. The wait is the catch, and 3 of the newest reviews clock it at 20 minutes to an hour. It's open 2 PM to 1 AM every day, so come when you want a late lunch rather than a pit stop.

Come here when you want a burger in your hand instead of an evening out. Feed Me! is a counter on Mikheil Lermontovi Street with a drive-through and a delivery arm, selling burgers, tacos, chicken strips and cheese sticks at 10 to 30 GEL. One reviewer puts it plainly: this is basically takeaway only. It holds 4.5 from 268 Google reviews, keeps late-night food on the board, and its own listing promises delivery to your door inside 40 minutes. It's the pick for a night when you want to be quick rather than seated.

Good Choice keeps a 16-hour day, 11 AM to 3 AM, which is the whole argument for it after midnight. It's a grill kitchen on Giorgi Leonidze Street doing burgers and hot dogs, with a bar on site, a private dining room and sport on the screens. Google rates it 4.5 from 812 reviews at 20 to 30 GEL a head, and the listing carries a vegetarian burger for whoever needs one. Parking is usually difficult here, so walk over from Liberty Square rather than drive. Book ahead if you're bringing a group, because it takes reservations.

The room here is doing more than feeding you. Burger Lions is a jungle-themed spot on Vazha-Pshavela Avenue, filed by Google as quiet and trendy, with outdoor seating and the board games that take 6 mentions in the review topics. It takes bookings, opens at 10 AM, runs to 1 AM and holds 4.5 from 954 reviews. Free snacks turn up at 5 mentions and free chocolates at 3, so something lands on the table before you've ordered. The one repeated warning is the wait, at 21 mentions, so don't come starving.

Come here at 3 AM. Mugsy's is the 1,626-review fast food room on Vazha Pshavela Avenue that runs 11 AM to 4 AM and charges 10 to 20 GEL, the cheap end of this list. It holds 4.4, and there's outdoor seating, free street parking, a kids' menu and a wheelchair accessible restroom behind an entrance Google marks as not accessible. One reviewer was caught out by VAT and an 18% service charge landing on top, so read the bill before you go. It's a pit stop rather than a dinner, and at that hour that is the point.

Sometimes you want the burger you already know. This is the chain, out in Vake-Saburtalo, doing grilled burgers, fries and shakes from 10 AM to 10 PM for 10 to 20 GEL. It has a step-free entrance, an accessible restroom and accessible seating, and Google says there's usually plenty of parking, which makes it the pick for a group that can't all manage a cobbled lane in Old Town. The rating is 3.7 from 326 reviews, the low end of this page, so you're coming for the convenience rather than the cooking.

Nothing else on this list is open at 5 AM on a Tuesday. Gochits runs 24 hours a day on Akaki Beliashvili Street in Didube-Chugureti, and its own listing sells the place on monster burgers. Burgers take 52 mentions in the review topics, more than anything else, and beer takes 3. It divides people: the 3.7 from 469 reviews puts 5-star verdicts and complaints about how little meat is in the patty side by side. Go when the hour is the thing deciding it for you.