15 Best Late-Night Food Spots in Tbilisi

The hour you get hungry and the hour a kitchen closes are rarely the same hour. Dariko publishes kitchen times to prove its own hasn't: 12 PM to 1:30 AM every day, against a 2 AM close, so a 1 AM order is a menu item rather than a favour. It's a Georgian restaurant on Pkhovi Street off Orbeliani Square, with handmade khinkali and Adjarian khachapuri at the front of its own description. Shisha takes 33 mentions in the review topics, more than any dish on the listing, and welcoming staff 32. You book by WhatsApp rather than through a form.

Read the hours before you build a night around this one. Monday to Thursday it's a Liberty Square cafe that shuts at 9 PM, and on Sunday it doesn't open at all. Friday and Saturday it runs to 3 AM. No separate kitchen time is published, so what those 2 nights guarantee is the room, the bar and a menu of quick bites and small plates rather than a full dinner service. It looks small at the street door and opens out downstairs, tagged casual, cosy and quiet by Google, with live music and live performances among its highlights.

A curry at 1 AM is a different proposition from a shawarma at 1 AM, and this is where the first one happens. Al Madina Cave runs Indian, Pakistani and Arabic dishes off one menu on Gia Tetelashvili Street, 12 PM to 2 AM, 7 days a week, holding 4.7 from 1,619 reviews. Its own listing promises curries, biryanis and tandoori dishes in a family-friendly room, and halal food leads the review topics at 92 mentions. One reviewer says the wait is worth it because everything is made fresh, which is the deal you're making after midnight.

Late-night food sits in Muse's Google offerings, next to the coffee and the cocktails, so the kitchen is part of what the 2 AM close covers. It runs 9 AM to 2 AM every day at 52 Vertskhli Street by Meidan Bazaar, a cafe by day and a jazz restaurant after dark. Piano takes 116 mentions in the review topics and live music 76, and its own description puts vocalists on Thursdays and Saturdays. There's a candle-lit hall and an open-air garden courtyard, dogs are allowed, and it takes reservations. Come here when the last meal of the night should have a soundtrack.

The grill here runs as late as the room does, which is the part that matters at this hour. Grill More is a burger and steak kitchen by Public School 35 in Saburtalo, open 12 PM to 2 AM every day, and its delivery hours match the room's to the minute, so the coals are still lit rather than the till merely open. Burgers take 113 mentions in the review topics, steak 43 and large portions 6, and 969 reviews hold it at 4.7. There's no booking link on the listing, so you turn up. Come here when dinner has slipped past midnight and the table wants meat.

This is the counter end of the list, and the listing is honest about it: dine-in is on, table service is marked not available, so you order at the front and carry it to a table yourself. Tiflis Fast Food sits on Ilia Vekua Street up in Nadzaladevi, open 11 AM to 2 AM, 7 nights a week, and the single Georgian line it writes for itself promises shawarma cooked over the embers. It holds 4.6 from 227 reviews. One reviewer counts never being crowded among the perks, which at 1 AM is the point.

The hours say 2 AM, and this is the one to ring before you set out: one reviewer was turned away shortly before midnight with people still inside and the live music still going. Chemtan sits at 22 Metekhi Street with a rooftop terrace over Old Tbilisi, and the view does a lot of the work, at 4 mentions for the rooftop, 3 for the panoramic view and 3 for the city view. Live music is a listing highlight and the room is tagged casual, cosy and quiet. It's dine-in only, it accepts reservations, and at this hour you'd want one.

You can eat a shawarma on the walk home, or you can sit down to a biryani. This is the second option, cooking Indian, Pakistani and Arabic food at 112 Aghmashenebeli from 12 PM to 2 AM every night of the week, with Friday the one day it opens late, at 1:30 PM. Its own listing's promise is freshly made halal Indian, Pakistani and Arab food, and halal food takes 12 mentions in the review topics against a 4.5 from 266 reviews. One reviewer counts a 12% charge added to the bill and calls the portions small, so you'll want a naan more than you planned.

The 2 AM close is only half of it. The other half is that the menu runs past the wrap, to lobiani and khachapuri, mtsvadi and kebab. Green Buffet N1 is a fast food restaurant on Parnavaz Mepe Avenue, 4.4 from 214 reviews, with a meal in the 10 to 20 GEL band and free street parking outside. You can eat inside or at the outdoor tables, and the crowd line on its listing says groups. It runs 10 AM to 2 AM Monday to Saturday, and from 12 PM on Sunday.

Shawarma takes 66 mentions in the review topics here, and the next thing down is the lavash it comes in, at 5. You're ordering shawarma, and it's on 10 AM to 2 AM, 7 days a week. MacShaurma is a fast food counter on Ilia Vekua Street in Nadzaladevi, 4.4 from 788 reviews, where you order off a screen and wait your turn. Queues take 4 mentions of their own, and one reviewer in June spent over an hour behind more than 20 Wolt drivers, so a late stop here is not always the fast one.

The pitch here is that you build it: one reviewer in July describes choosing the type of shawarma, then the size, then the meat, and found the medium enough to fill a person on its own. Craft Food is a fast food restaurant at 13 Omar Khizanishvili Street in Nadzaladevi, 4.3 from 434 reviews, with shaurma at 36 mentions in its review topics and delicious food at 8. Its hours run in a single block, 11 AM to 2 AM, 7 days a week, with no separate kitchen close on the listing. Come here when you're out this way rather than in the old town.

There's no closing time to work around here: Google has it open 24 hours, 7 days a week. Shaurmafia is a fast food counter on Ketevan Dedofali Avenue in Isani-Samgori, 4.1 from 169 reviews at 10 to 20 GEL, and its own listing sums the place up in 3 words, delicious halal shawarma. Keep the group small. One reviewer in April describes a kitchen with tables, chairs and a drinks fridge, and puts the workable maximum at 3 of you. The listing marks a restroom as not available, and parking is usually hard to find.

Be clear about what you're getting at 2 AM here, because it's the sweet end of a night rather than a meal. The listing highlights are great coffee, great dessert and a great tea selection, with late-night food and small plates under offerings. Daily Dose is a cafe on Lubliana I Dead End, 4.1 from 184 reviews at 10 to 20 GEL, open 9 AM to 3 AM every day. Cozy atmosphere takes 10 mentions in its review topics and hookah 9, and one 1-star reviewer's line about a smoke-filled room tells you how those 2 go together.

Open 24 hours, every day, which is what puts it on a list like this one. Shawarma Madliani sits on Kerchi Street in Nadzaladevi, 3.9 from 204 reviews at 10 to 20 GEL, and it lists itself as a cafe and a restaurant as well as a shawarma place. What it has that a 4 AM window doesn't is somewhere to sit: rooftop seating and sport are its 2 listing highlights, there's a bar onsite, and the Wi-Fi is free. If you're weighing eating there against ordering in, eat there, since a 3-star reviewer rates the food in the room and writes off the delivery.

Open 24 hours, every day, with a prayer room in its review topics at 2 mentions and halal food at 15. Shawarma House is a shawarma restaurant in Isani-Samgori, 4 from 633 reviews at 10 to 20 GEL, and it lists itself as a halal restaurant and a soft drinks shop alongside that. Its Google listing marks table service as not available, so you order at the counter and carry it to a seat yourself. There's free Wi-Fi, a restroom and free street parking outside. Come here when it's 3 AM and you want the food to be halal.