15 Best Shawarma in Tbilisi

A 4.9 rating across 1,794 reviews is a strange thing to find on a fast food listing, and Berlin Shaurma has one. It's on Mose Gogiberidze Street in Old Tbilisi, with a counter, outdoor tables that turn up in 9 review topics, and a kitchen that runs to 1 AM most nights and 2 AM on Friday and Saturday. Come here when dinner ended hours ago and you still want something hot. Google puts a meal at 10 to 20 GEL, and there's a free car park, though a space is usually hard to find.

Shawarma is a takeaway proposition here, and that's the whole design: no dine-in on the listing, just a spit, a counter and a bag to carry out. Soul Shaurma sits on Khizanishvili Street in Nadzaladevi, and its own description credits an owner from the Georgian mountains, with vegan versions alongside the traditional ones. Friendly owner takes 13 mentions in the review topics and pomegranate another 9. Come here when you're heading home up north and want dinner handled on the way. It's open 12 to 11:50 PM every day, with Wolt, Bolt and Glovo listed on its Instagram.

Orbeliani Bazaar's second floor is a food court, and this is the stall that's worth the stairs. Istanbul Kebab's is a halal Turkish kitchen on Vekua Street holding 4.7 from 526 reviews, with a chef from Urfa working the grill. The listing calls the atmosphere casual, cosy and quiet, and puts the crowd at college students, groups and tourists. Come here when you want the kebab half of the shawarma question answered too, any day between 11 AM and 10 PM. Google bands a meal at 20 to 30 GEL.

Some shawarma comes from a restaurant and some comes from a man and a spit. Nawras Aziz is the second kind: a halal counter on Atskuri Street in Isani-Samgori, small enough that 4 review topics say so, and one reviewer warns the sign isn't very clear. Garlic sauce is the thing it's known for, at 13 mentions, with friendly owner behind it at 8. Come here when you want the Lebanese version rather than the Georgian one, built to order by the owner himself. It's open 10 AM to 9 PM daily, and 130 reviews hold it at 4.8.

The useful thing about Wrap Master isn't the wrap, it's the clock: it's open 24 hours, 7 days a week, on Ilo Mosashvili Street in Vake-Saburtalo. Its own description sells Crunchwraps, 14 flavours of grilled folded wrap, and wraps takes 13 review-topic mentions against shawarma's 5. Portions run large enough that 1 order splits between 2 people. Come here when it's 4 AM, you've run out of options and you want something that isn't khachapuri. It holds 4.7 from 195 reviews, and cosy place and pleasant staff take 2 mentions each.

Most of this list is shawarma. This one is a Turkish street food menu that happens to do shawarma very well, and its own description starts in Mersin: Hatay's doner, Bursa's Inegol kofte, tantuni, tacos. Tantuni and shawarma sit level at 18 review-topic mentions each, with doner at 11 behind them. It's on Aghmashenebeli Avenue, open 11 AM to 2 AM every day, and it holds 4.6 from 195 reviews. Come here when the night has gone long and you want something off a charcoal grill rather than out of a fryer.

Shawarma takes 127 mentions in this listing's review topics, and the number is the review. Magical Shawarma is a Hatay-style Turkish counter on Kote Marjanishvili Street doing doner, Iskender, kofte and a cheese doner off its own description, with halal food at 16 mentions behind it. Late-night food and vegan options are both on the listing, table service is marked as not available, and there's a drive-through if you'd rather not get out of the car. Come here when you're on Marjanishvili late and the choice has narrowed. It holds 4.5 from 453 reviews at 10 to 20 GEL.

Didube is where you leave Tbilisi from, and the hour before a marshrutka is exactly when a shawarma makes sense. Joker Shaurma is a fast food counter on Transport Street beside the bus station, holding 4.5 from 216 reviews, with shawarma at 64 review-topic mentions and shashlik at 27 behind it. One reviewer calls it an outskirts-of-Tbilisi scene and warns that the seating runs out once the room fills. Come here before a run to Kazbegi or Mtskheta, any day between 10 AM and 10 PM. It's noisy, and it takes cards.

Portion size takes 13 mentions in the review topics, and one regular's fix is to split the big shawarma into 2 or 3 pieces. Flash Shawarma is at 68 Dimitri Uznadze Street, 4.4 from 247 reviews, with a casual room and a dining area upstairs that picks up 2 mentions of its own. The listing puts college students and groups in the crowd, and it's set up for solo dining too. Come here when you want lunch at 10 to 20 GEL and don't mind carrying half of it home. It's open 11 AM to 11 PM daily.

The queue is the thing to plan around. MacShaurma has 788 Google reviews behind its 4.4, ordering runs off a screen, and queues take 4 mentions in the review topics against 2 for preparation time. One reviewer waited over 1 hour behind 20 Wolt drivers, so the delivery rush is the stretch to dodge. It's a counter on Ilia Vekua Street in Nadzaladevi, where cleanliness picks up 3 mentions of its own. You have until 2 AM every night, and the doors open at 10 AM.

The seating here is a covered patch out the back under a red awning, and that's the whole of it: the listing offers outdoor seating, delivery and takeout, and marks table service and the restroom as not available. Balu BBQ shaurma is on Ilia Vekua Street in Nadzaladevi, 4.3 from 228 reviews, at 10 to 20 GEL. Meat takes 7 mentions in the review topics and shawarma 31, with shashlik, kebab and pita on 3 each. Come when the weather's on your side, and check the day before you go: it shuts at 9 PM except on Tuesday, when it runs to 11 PM.

It never shuts: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, which is the answer to where you eat at 4 AM in Nadzaladevi. Shawarmaniac is in Temka on Omar Khizanishvili Street, 4.1 from 116 reviews, and Google puts a meal at 1 to 10 GEL. There's dine-in with table service, a restroom, high chairs and a kids' menu, plus sitting space downstairs. The 4.1 is honest: the recent 1-star reviews run to soggy lavash and small wraps, the 5-star ones to seasoning.

Charcoal is the difference here. Meat on live coals and charcoal cooking take 3 mentions each in the review topics, with smoky meat and barbecue taste on 2 more. OK Shawarma is a kiosk in Didube-Chugureti, and there's nowhere to sit: delivery and takeout are the only service options on the listing. It holds 4 from 143 reviews at 10 to 20 GEL, open 11 AM to 12 AM every day. Come when you want the meat to taste of the coals and don't need a table.

The hours here are the draw: 10 AM straight through to 6 AM, so there's no realistic hour to want a shawarma in Isani and find this shut. Qute's Shaurma is on Javakheti Street, 4.1 from 344 reviews, at 10 to 20 GEL, with the interior and cleanliness on 3 review mentions each and the air conditioning on 2. Table service is marked not available, so you queue at the counter and carry it yourself. You can't order ahead either, which is what both of the recent 1-star reviews land on. Street parking is free and usually full, so walk.

Halal food takes 15 mentions in the review topics and falafel 13, and the listing's own one-line description ends on the word halal. Shawarma Haifa sits on Davit Aghmashenebeli Avenue, on the stretch one reviewer calls Arab Street, holding 4.1 from 374 reviews. There's no seating at all, so you take the food and find your own spot on the pavement. The other thing to plan for is the wait, which runs past 30 minutes in the evening. It's open 11:30 AM to 5 AM, 7 days.