12 Best Dessert and Cake Shops in Tbilisi

The room here is doing as much work as the cakes. The interior is named in 160 review topics, almost as often as the desserts themselves. It's a vintage-styled confectionery on Vertskhli Street that dates itself to 1822, serves coffee alongside the cakes and holds 4.7 from 795 reviews. There's not much space inside, so on a warm day you're better off at a table outside. Doors open 9:30 AM and shut 10:30 PM, 7 days a week, and dogs are allowed.

Some dessert shops want you in and out with a box. This one will feed you eggs first. It's a bakery on Besiki Street with a Parisian mood by its own description, and it holds 4.8 from 238 Google reviews. Breakfast runs 10 AM to 5 PM and the pastries run all day, with the eggs Benedict named in 2 reviews. Seating is limited, and the whole place shuts at 9 PM, 7 days a week.

Choux is not usually a whole business, and here it is. The shop calls itself Georgia's first patisserie dedicated to choux pastry, in pistachio, lemon, mango and peanut butter. You'll find it at the far end of Kote Afkhazi, with 2 small tables inside and the rest of the seating in the courtyard. Breakfast runs alongside the pastry, so a 10 AM visit can be syrniki rather than sugar. It's open 10 AM to 10 PM daily and holds 4.7 from 399 reviews.

It opens at 12 PM and doesn't shut until 12 AM, which is the whole proposition. It's a dessert shop on Davit Aghmashenebeli doing bubble waffles, crepes and pancakes under ice cream and fruit. It holds 4.9 from 89 Google reviews, and 12 of those mention the staff, more than mention any single dessert. One reviewer counts 2 bubble waffles with ice cream at 15 GEL. Come here when dinner is long finished and you still want something sweet.

You'll smell it before you see it: 96 reviews mention the cinnamon on Pushkin Street. It's a chimney cake counter by Freedom Square, turning out trdelnik cones filled with ice cream and fresh fruit. It holds 4.6 from 2,161 reviews, more than anything else on this list. There's no seating and no table service, and the queue is in 85 reviews, so this is dessert you eat walking. Google puts a visit at 10 to 20 GEL, and the counter runs 11 AM to 12 AM daily.

The signature here is a contradiction: hot ice cream, warm Belgian chocolate poured over cold scoops with strawberries, bananas and blueberries. Around it sit waffles, crepes, pancakes and milkshakes, plus omelettes and sandwiches if you want a savoury start. It's open 9 AM to 2 AM, 7 days a week, the widest window on this list, and holds 4.9 from 62 Google reviews. Come at 1 AM for dessert or 9 AM for an omelette: the menu runs to both.

There's one flavour to come here for, and 7 reviews will tell you which. Cafe 43 is a pastry shop on Davit Aghmashenebeli that runs 9 AM to 12 AM, 7 days a week, and holds 4.6 from 151 Google reviews. Lemon leads every other topic those reviewers raise, and 2 of them single out the staff. Come here when dinner has run late and you want to sit down with something sweet rather than carry it home.

1993 is the date this one trades on. Bela calls itself the first Georgian confectionery brand, and its head office on Mikheil Khelashvili Street doubles as the Dighomi branch, so you're ordering from the place that runs it. It's open 7:50 AM to 11:45 PM, and delivery runs 8:30 AM to 9:30 PM. It holds 4.5 from 63 reviews, and cakes are what those reviews are about, named in 5 of them. Come here when the cake has to be somewhere else by 9:30 PM.

Dolce Vita is an Isani bakery that does its best work to order. It holds 4.5 from 1,670 Google reviews, and the occasion cake is what those reviewers come back for: custom cakes in 3, birthday cakes in 3 more, a wedding cake in 2. It bakes savoury too, so lobiani turns up in 4 and khachapuri in 2. Google marks it for quick visits and lists no restroom, so you're in and out. It runs 9 AM to 10 PM daily, with delivery and takeout.

The second Bela here is for when you're up in Gldani. The branch on Omar Khizanishvili Street has the same 1993 brand behind it and holds 4.2 from 114 reviews, the softer score of the 2. One reviewer rates it for the ordering: the owner speaks some English and talked through the cake textures and fillings. There are no tasting slices, so you commit on description alone. Google puts the spend at 30 to 40 GEL, and it's open 8:30 AM to 9:30 PM daily.

You already know exactly what you're getting here, and that's the argument for it at 11 PM. The Davit Aghmashenebeli branch runs 8:30 AM to 12 AM, 7 days a week, later than most of the places on this list. It's built for takeaway: Google lists no table service, marks it for quick visits and files it under solo dining. It holds 3.7 from 55 reviews, the lowest score here, and one of those reviewers found the posted hours were not being kept.

Not everything sweet in this city arrives as a cake. Sapore is a pastry shop on Davit Aghmashenebeli, and what it sells is Turkish and Middle Eastern: baklava is named in 64 reviews, Turkish delight in 29 and kunafa in 10. It holds 4.3 from 1,033 reviews, serves breakfast alongside the sweets and runs 8:30 AM to 11 PM daily. Its 1-star reviews are about the service rather than the sweets, so order with that in mind.