15 Best Restaurants in Tbilisi

One room that covers cold draft beer, handmade khinkali and meat off a wood fire is a useful thing to know about, and this is it. Pub Georgian sits on Baratashvili Street, a few steps from Pushkin Park and the Gabriadze Clock Tower, with tables inside and more outside along the old city wall. It holds a 5 rating from 3,977 Google reviews, and Google tags the room casual, cosy and quiet. Come here when you've spent the afternoon walking Old Tbilisi and want beer and meat without deciding anything else. It's open 11 AM to 10:30 PM every day and it takes reservations.

Dinner and a show sounds like something you'd swerve, and then you get to Ethnographer and the dancers come out. It's a Georgian restaurant on Akaki Beliashvili Street big enough to need a programme, and the reviews name the live music and the dancing more often than they name any dish. Loud music turns up in 11 of them, which is what happens when a room this size fills up. Come here when your group wants one night that covers the food, the music and the dancing instead of choosing. The kitchen runs to 10:30 PM and the room stays open to 1 AM.

Khinkali Bar N1 calls itself the first khinkali restaurant in Tbilisi, and it behaves like a kitchen that's had time to think about dumplings. There are 10 kinds on Kote Afkhazi, boiled and fried, savoury and sweet, and the listing holds 4.9 from 6,541 reviews. One reviewer hesitated at the top of the basement stairs, went down anyway, and calls the room cosy and the service fast. Come here when someone in your group hasn't eaten khinkali before and needs the whole range in one sitting. Its Instagram says table reservations are free.

Plenty of Tbilisi restaurants have a view and let you forget about it. See360 doesn't: 586 of its reviews mention the view and 49 mention the terrace, which tells you where to ask to sit. The kitchen is Georgian and European, the rating is 4.9 from 4,622 reviews, and live music turns up in 236 of them. Come here for the dinner you'd take a visitor to, or for breakfast, which starts at 8 AM and is the quiet version of the same thing. It books online, and the listing points at its own free parking.

Vakhtanguri has been in Avlabari since 1993 and has spent that time becoming a chebureki restaurant with a Georgian menu attached: 403 reviews mention the chebureki, and nothing else on the listing comes close. Google tags the crowd families, groups and tourists, and the room casual, cosy and quiet. It's open 11 AM to 2 AM every day, so a late dinner is genuinely on the table. Come here when you want the Avlabari version of a Georgian dinner rather than a designed one, and bring people: there's a private dining room and free parking outside.

Samsara is the small one. A 5 rating across 434 reviews, a cafe-bar on Lado Asatiani that its own description calls bohemian, with hammocks in the room and colourful decor that 4 reviews name. One reviewer landed here off a 7-hour flight expecting nothing from the nearest cafe to the hotel, and called it the best food they had in Tbilisi. Come here when you want dinner that doesn't feel like an occasion, on your own or with a couple of friends. It's women-owned, closed Mondays, and open 12 PM to 12 AM the rest of the week.

You go to Abanotubani for the sulfur baths and then eat wherever you land. Bistro Conili is the argument for planning that part instead. It's a Georgian bistro on Abano Street, in what its own description calls the oldest part of Tbilisi, with a wine list the staff will walk you through. One reviewer calls it the only restaurant in the country they went back to. Come here straight from the baths, which is how 12 reviews describe using it, and book online so the table is waiting when you come out. It runs 11 AM to 11 PM.

A 5 rating across 360 reviews usually means a place is too new to have disappointed anyone yet. Viola has been doing it with Neapolitan pizza. The room is small, as one reviewer puts it plainly, with outdoor seating and a menu that runs pizza, pasta, salads and cocktails. Come here when you want Italian food and Georgian wine on the same table, and bring the dog: the listing says it's allowed inside. It opens at 2 PM most days, later on Monday and Tuesday, and runs to 12 AM.

Most Old Tbilisi restaurants sell you the room first. This one sells you the wine list, and the room comes with it. Usakhelouri is named after the wine its own listing calls the most famous in Georgia, and it sits on Abano Street, next to the sulfur baths. The balcony is the other draw: 418 of its Google reviews name the balcony seating, and 97 name the baths. Come here after a soak, when what you want is a long lunch and a table over the street. It's open 1 to 11 PM daily, and booking a table costs nothing.

Hide is under Meidan, in a room that spent centuries as a wine cellar because the sun never reached it. That's where the name comes from, and the listing files the room as cosy, quiet and upscale in the same breath. There's a terrace if you'd rather eat above ground. Come with the group that wants Georgian food in the middle of the tourist quarter without eating on the square itself. Book either way: reservations are marked required, and dinner bookings recommended. It runs to 11:30 PM, 11 PM on Mondays, and parking is a fight.

This is the Tsiskvili group's Saburtalo take on Beer Square, the Beliashvili Street room it counts among its first, and it's built to the same scale: 2 floors of glass, room for about 200 people and an enclosed terrace. Come with the sort of group that would wreck a smaller dining room, or on a weeknight when you want a grill, a beer and no ceremony. It runs 11 AM to 1 AM, but the kitchen stops at 11 PM, so the last 2 hours belong to the drinkers. It holds a 4.9 from 550 reviews.

Tskneti is outside Tbilisi, which is the entire point of eating here. Its own description pitches the place as a year-round trip rather than a meal: lunch, dinner, a glass of wine, or just the view. Live music is what 19 reviews bring up, Georgian songs included, and 6 more name the fireplace. Come on a Sunday when nobody has to be anywhere afterwards, and let the table run long. It's open 12 PM to 1 AM, with the kitchen closing at 10:30 PM.

Gobi is small, and the word that keeps coming back in its reviews is cosy. It's a Georgian kitchen on Vasil Barnov Street, and it carries a 4.9 from 540 Google reviews. Portions are the running theme: ordering 2 dishes at a time is the advice its reviews keep giving. Come when you want dinner at conversation volume, with the music low and the room quiet, the way reviewers keep describing it. It's open 12 to 11 PM every day and takes bookings online.

Van Goghi is what happens when a Georgian kitchen decides khinkali can share a menu with beef cheeks and sea bass. It calls itself a fusion of European and Georgian traditions, it runs on candlelight, and in September 2026 it picked up a Gault&Millau Georgia POP distinction. Live music comes up in 43 reviews, and more than one of them puts a pianist in the room. Come for a dinner where the plates are the show: presentation is what reviewers keep naming. It's open 1 PM to midnight, and dinner bookings are recommended.

Deciding on dinner at midnight in Tbilisi usually means settling for whatever is still open. Dariko keeps the kitchen going to 1:30 AM and the room to 2 AM, which makes it the answer to a meal you decided on too late. It's a Georgian restaurant with a wine list and a shisha habit: 33 reviews mention the shisha and 32 the staff. Wheelchair access is marked right through, entrance, restroom and seating. Bring the group that never eats before 11 PM.