13 Best Sports Bars and Pubs in Tbilisi

Some sports bars are one room and a screen. World's End is a basement on Shalva Dadiani with a Cthulhu theme, a dartboard, a foosball table and board games, and the football goes on in the middle of all of it. It put the Champions League final on, and on another night the match was at the bar while karaoke ran in the big room next door. Beer and cocktails sit at the cheap end for this part of town. Doors at 7 PM most nights, 2 AM on Friday and Saturday, closed Monday.

The owner is the reason this one works. Sonder sits on Kita Abashidze and is built around its chacha shelf, and friendly owner is one of the biggest review topics on the listing at 11 mentions. One reviewer puts the soundtrack at 90s and 2000s grunge and rock, and live music runs here too. Come here when the night started somewhere else and you want the last 2 hours in a room where the staff treat you like a regular. It's shut Monday and Tuesday, and open to 2 AM the rest of the week.

One reviewer asked for the football at the bar, got it, and then noted the screens covering everything else in the room. That is this place on a match day: a pub on Aghmashenebeli running over 2 floors, with a stage and a rooftop terrace above it. Live music runs Thursday and Friday, and the terrace is the part reviewers keep naming. It runs 3 PM to 1 AM, and Friday and Saturday go to 3 AM. It takes bookings, and a big match is when you want one.

Cosy is the word its reviews keep landing on, with cosy place at 12 review topics and stylish interior behind it. Buro is a gastro bar tucked away on Napareuli, and its own description is signature cocktails, homemade infusions, food and beer, with cocktails the single thing reviewers name most. The room fills after 9 PM at weekends, and reviewers keep running into DJs. There's a summer patio for the months that allow it. It's a 6 PM start, 1 AM most nights and 3 AM on Friday and Saturday.

Come for the band and treat the pint as the supporting act. MacLaren's sits on Rkinis Rigi in the old town, and live music runs Wednesday to Sunday: 232 review topics name it, more than any other thing on the listing. It's loud, and it's rock rather than fiddles. The pub opens at 3 PM and shuts at 3 AM, every day of the week. Weekends fill up, so turning up without a booking means waiting for a table.

Bring the friend who reads beer lists. Tsota Tsota is Megobrebi Brewery's own taproom on Geronti Kikodze, and the brewery's line is that modern Georgian beer lives here: smoothie sours, mixed fermentation sours, wine ales and the hoppy things in between. One reviewer calls it one of the best craft beer places in Tbilisi, and the room stays quiet enough to talk about why. Tables run inside and out, hours are 4 PM to 1 AM 7 days a week, and its Instagram says dogs are fine.

Brown's calls itself the only British-owned pub in Georgia, and the week it runs is the evidence: pub quizzes, pool tournaments, live music and sport on the screens. Reviewers line up behind that, naming the quiz, the pool table, watching sports and darts, and one reviewer sends rugby fans here in particular. It's on Jerusalem Square, it opens at 11 AM, and friendly staff is the biggest topic on the whole listing at 119 mentions. Get there early on a match day.

The screens here are the point, and there are enough of them that nobody argues about which match goes on. Pub 44 is in Vera, near Rustaveli metro, and its own listing promises huge screens and sound covering every angle for football, rugby and Formula 1. One reviewer found several games running in parallel, with soundproofing between them. Pub quiz nights run alongside the sport, and dogs are allowed. Doors at 5 PM on weekdays and 1 PM at weekends, 2 AM on Friday and Saturday, and it takes bookings.

Some pubs put the match on and hope. Dublin has been on Akhvlediani since 1999, calls itself the oldest Irish pub in the city, and runs the week to a pattern: a band from 9:30 PM every evening, and the Premier League and Champions League fixtures posted to its Instagram with kick-off times in Tbilisi time. Come here when half your group wants the match and the other half wants a room with a band in it. Doors at 5 PM, 3 AM on Friday and Saturday, tables by phone.

This is a last stop, not a first one. Warszawa has been on Pushkin since 2014, a small room with Polish accents, and it opens at 12:15 PM and shuts at 4 AM every day of the week. Google puts the spend at 10 to 20 GEL, which is the other reason people end up here, and sport makes the listing's highlights alongside the beer and the cocktails. There's no table service and no booking, so you stand at the bar and talk to whoever is next to you.

Dallas Pub sits out on Beliashvili in Didube, a long way from the pub streets in the centre, and the trip is the point: this is a neighbourhood pub rather than a stop on a crawl. Karaoke carries 4 review topics, so expect the mic to be in use by somebody. It opens at 2 PM 7 days a week and runs to 1 AM. There's no booking link, no website of its own and no working Instagram.

Live music takes 80 review topics here, and nothing else on the listing comes close. Nali Stage Pub is on Leo Kiacheli, the room is built around rock, and one reviewer found the music too loud to enjoy, which is either the complaint or the appeal depending on why you came. There's a big screen for the football as well. Closed Monday, 6 PM to 2 AM the rest of the week, and midnight on Wednesday.

The pitch on Billy Burke’s own listing is Irish culture, a wide drinks list and a kitchen to match, with sports channels running at any hour of the day and billiards or table football going while they do. It's on Kostava, and the hours make it a weekday afternoon pub more than a Saturday night one: 12 PM to 12 AM, 7 days a week. There's an online booking page. Come with someone who wants a cue in their hand.