11 Best Nightclubs in Tbilisi

Tbilisi's night does not begin at midnight, and neither does this bar: doors open at 6 PM, and 2 PM at weekends. It's a bar in Old Tbilisi opened by a crew from Belarus, pouring draught beer and cocktails beside a kitchen cooking Belarusian and European food. One reviewer calls it quiet and relaxed, counts craft beer on tap and in the fridge, and warns it is not easy to find. Come here when the plan is dinner first and dancing later, and leave yourself time to find the door.

Most Tbilisi clubs open on Friday and think about Saturday. This one doesn't: doors at 10 PM and out at 5 AM, 7 nights a week, which makes it the answer on a Tuesday when the rest of the city has gone quiet. Google files it as a disco club, and its own listing promises Arabic music, singers and DJs. The same listing shows a wheelchair accessible entrance, restroom and seating, plus an assistive hearing loop. Come to dance.

Khidi is a room built around volume, and it runs from 11:50 PM on Friday and Saturday through to 10 AM. It's a techno club on the Heydar Aliyev Embankment, booking international and local DJs onto hard techno and underground nights. Face control is the biggest thing in its review topics, at 23 mentions against 14 for security and 10 for the entrance fee, so treat the door as part of the night. 2 reviewers price that door at 50 GEL and 20 euros. Come when you want the room loud and the night to finish in daylight.

Gallery was doing this before Tbilisi had a club scene, and says so itself. Since the late 2000s it has worked as a cafe, an exhibition space, a bar and a nightclub at once, on Griboedov St. Its own listing is blunt about the rest: this is where a lot of Georgian DJs started, and where the room pushed back on homophobia. Google's crowd tags read groups, tourists and LGBTQ+ friendly. Come on a Friday, because doors are 11:45 PM and Saturday morning ends at 6 AM.

There's a balcony over the Mtkvari here, and it is the most useful thing in the building. Mtkvarze is a night club on the Baratashvili left embankment, with a small room downstairs, the main room upstairs and a garden you can talk in. The sound is techno, house and rave, which is what its review topics keep naming. Doors are 11 PM on Friday and Saturday, and the floor runs to 11 AM. 2 reviewers this year describe drinks being spiked here, so keep yours in your hand.

This list has 2 Arabic clubs on it, and it's the big one. 468 Google reviews, doors 7 nights a week, and a listing that bills it as one of the best Arabic nightclubs in the city. Doors are 10 PM on Merab Kostava St and the floor runs to 6 AM. Its review topics get to the decor before the music, at 8 mentions against 6 for the Arabic sets and 2 for the Iraqi songs. Bring people rather than come alone.

Safe has been running on Shardeni St since 2008, which by its own listing makes it the oldest party place in town. It's a night club in Old Tbilisi that identifies as women-owned, with table service and reservations taken. Doors are 10 PM and the floor runs to 7 AM, 7 nights a week. The djs come up 21 times in the review topics, behind only the atmosphere at 41. Come here when the group wants a floor that is open on a Tuesday as well as a Saturday.

The door is the first thing one reviewer brings up about Sakhelosno, and only to say there is no arbitrary selection at it. It's a night club and bar at Rike Park by the Bridge of Peace, open 10 PM to 5 AM on weeknights and to 6 AM on Saturday and Sunday. Google tags the crowd as groups, tourists, LGBTQ+ friendly and a transgender safespace, and there is a free lot plus free street parking outside. Come here when there are 6 of you and nobody wants to gamble on the door.

Somebody put a chess set beside one of the dance floors, and one reviewer stopped mid-night to play a few games. That is the most useful picture of Left Bank there is, because its own listing calls it nothing more than a social space. It's a night club in Old Tbilisi, open Friday and Saturday from 9 PM to 10 AM the next morning and shut the rest of the week. Come here when you want somewhere to wander rather than one floor and one queue.

Google's highlights hand Night Office a beer selection, a cocktail list, a wine list, live music and live performances, all on one listing. The rating under them is 3.2 from 302 reviews, and that gap is what you're deciding about. The room is open 10 PM to 6 AM every day of the week, with table service, happy hour drinks and food served at the bar, and its review topics read disco, good singers and free entry. Come here at 3 AM when you want a seat, a singer and a choice of what to drink.

The door here asks questions. One reviewer arrived at 10 PM, got a few about techno, went in with a group of 4 and left at 7 AM, signing off with no phones allowed, only techno. Face control is the review topic that dwarfs the rest at 50 mentions, with door policy at 20 and the sound system at 14. It's a techno club on Akaki Tsereteli Ave, and the rating sits at 3.5 from 1,101 reviews. Come here when techno is the whole plan, not the last hour of one.