13 Best Fine Dining Restaurants in Tbilisi

A dinner that has to impress needs more than a good kitchen, and this one brings the city with it. See360 is on Betlemi Street in Old Tbilisi, cooking Georgian and European dishes over a panorama that takes 586 mentions in its review topics, ahead of anything on the menu. Live music runs from 8:30 PM, with traditional Georgian dance named in the reviews beside it, and the room holds 4.9 across 4,622 reviews. Come here when you're the one choosing and the table has to remember it. It's open 1 PM to 12 AM, and the parking is free.

Not every good dinner in this city costs 100 GEL. Google puts a meal at Ranina between 30 and 80, and files the same room as a Georgian restaurant, a fine dining restaurant, a cocktail bar and a wine bar. It's on Pkhovi Street by Orbeliani Square, tagged casual, cosy and quiet, holding 4.8 from 1,509 reviews. Come here when you want the plates and the service without the occasion attached, and take the terrace if the night allows it. Reservations are required and the doors stay open until 1 AM.

Book this one first, then find it. OtsY is on Ioane Shavteli Street in Old Tbilisi, set back far enough that one reviewer's advice is to persevere when the map gives up, and the room inside seats about 20, with more tables outside. Chef de cuisine Giorgi Ninua's menu is the listing's own pitch: Tbilisi cuisine with a contemporary vision, at 100 GEL and up. Google tags it cosy, quiet, romantic and upscale, with rooftop seating and a private dining room. The kitchen stops at 9:30 PM, so a late dinner isn't the plan here.

A tasting menu is a decision you make before you sit down, and this is the room built for it. Reserve is a small glass building on 9 Aprili Street in Old Tbilisi, where French and Italian technique meets Scandinavian freshness and Georgian farm produce, which is how the listing describes itself. The Georgian tasting menu takes 14 mentions in its review topics, ahead of every single dish. One reviewer counts 7 courses and a dessert on it. It's open 12 PM to 12 AM, and the kitchen stops at 10 PM, or 11 PM on Friday and Saturday.

Most restaurants write their menu. This one inherited it, from Complete Cooking, the book Barbare Eristavi-Jorjadze published in 1914, and the listing's own line is that the 19th century writer and feminist hosts you in 21st century Tbilisi. It's a dining room on Davit Aghmashenebeli Avenue holding 4.6 across 2,986 reviews, tagged historic, quiet and romantic, with live music at 56 mentions in the review topics. Come here when you want the meal itself to be the story. Reservations are required and the kitchen stops at 10 PM, so this is dinner rather than a late table.

Some dinners need a room that does half the work for you. Unfound Door is in a restored 19th century building on Davit Aghmashenebeli Avenue, and Google tags it historic, romantic, quiet, trendy and upscale all at once. It holds 4.6 across 432 reviews, and its own listing describes French technique laid over Sakartvelo's regional traditions. There's a private dining room, and one table booked it for a wedding dinner of 15. Reservations are required, dinner starts at 6 PM, and the kitchen stops at 10:30 PM, or 11:30 PM on Friday and Saturday.

Sometimes the answer isn't another Georgian table. Brasserie Buvette is the French room on Lado Gudiashvili Street, and its own listing calls it fine dining with a European touch. French bistro takes 9 mentions in its review topics and the elegant interior another 3, with mirrors and glass panels set so each table sits apart from the next. It holds 4.6 across 370 reviews and runs 12 PM to 12 AM every day, so you can take it late. The wine list is short, and reviewers keep saying so.

The building comes first here: its own listing calls it a cultural heritage site, and the restaurant sits inside it on Aleksandre Tsurtsumia Street in Avlabari. Live music and Georgian food are the 2 loudest topics in its reviews at 9 mentions each, and birthday celebration takes 6, which tells you what most of these tables are for. It's open 12 PM to 12 AM daily, with a terrace its Instagram posts through the summer, and bookings go by phone. Don't arrive in a rush: one 2-star reviewer in September waited more than 30 minutes and left without the khachapuri.

You're up on a rooftop above Ioane Shavteli Street, in the Hotel Ambassador building, and terrace takes 5 mentions in the review topics against 2 for the panoramic views. Its own listing sells Asian and European cooking with signature cocktails, and its review topics follow: cocktails at 16 mentions, sushi at 15. It's 4.6 from 167 reviews, open 1 PM to 1 AM, with brunch running 12 to 4 PM every day. Plan around 2 things: the terrace is a smoking area, and one 1-star reviewer in June was turned away in sandals with no dress code posted anywhere.

This is the French one, on Zakaria Paliashvili Street in Vake, open 12 to 11 PM every day of the week. Cozy spot leads its review topics at 5 mentions, with elegant design and food presentation at 3 each, which is the shape of the room you're walking into. Fast serving picks up another 2, so a weekday lunch here won't eat your afternoon. It holds 4.5 from 222 reviews, and the argument inside that number is about money: a 2-star review in September says something changed this year and the cooking stopped matching the prices.

Sharbati is the one you'd drive to, out past Didi Digomi on David Agmashenebeli Alley, with a free car park and usually plenty of space in it. It calls itself a Georgian restaurant and beer garden, holds 4.5 from 1,079 reviews at 30 to 90 GEL a head, and its listing tags the atmosphere Casual, Cozy, Quiet and Upscale all at once. Dance takes 10 mentions in its review topics and live music 8, so the quiet part depends on the night you pick. It's open 10 AM to 1 AM daily, and dinner wants a booking.

La Cote sits on the water at the Tbilisi Yacht Club, off Sikvarulis Kheivani Alley, and it's a summer restaurant in the literal sense: swimming, loungers and lunch on the veranda. Atmosphere leads its review topics at 7 mentions, location at 5 and beautiful place at 4, and the word sitting next to them is fee, at 2. There's an entrance charge for the loungers and the lake, and one reviewer puts it at 200 GEL a head, so work out what you're paying for before you drive out. It's 4.3 from 196 reviews, open 10 AM to 12 AM, and closed on Thursdays.

Bazzar is the dining room of a boutique hotel on Pkhovi Street, which is why it opens at 8 AM and why breakfast is as much its business as dinner. It's served in the cafe, and there's an outdoor space beside it. The location does a lot of the work here: 4 mentions in the review topics, on a quiet street in the centre of town. Atmosphere leads at 8 mentions, presentation and kind staff at 3 each. It holds 3.5 from 264 reviews, which is the number to know before you book, and the kitchen runs to 11 PM daily.