14 Best Sushi Spots in Tbilisi

The best sushi in Tbilisi is not downtown. It's a Japanese room in a residential Saburtalo block, with a bar on site, a 4.8 rating and 892 Google reviews. Google's atmosphere tags run cosy, quiet and romantic, and cosy is the most mentioned thing in its review topics, 26 times. One reviewer calls it small and modest, then credits the owner, on site and fluent in English, for food they call exceptional. Come here when sushi is the evening's plan rather than something you order to your flat: it's closed Mondays, opens at 12:30 and takes reservations.

Yuki Yume is 4 tables in a basement, family run, and its Google listing describes itself as a sushi delivery before anything else. The 4.9 it holds across 279 reviews is the highest on this list. The trade-off is time: several reviewers waited 40 minutes or more, and the kitchen has handed out coupons and discounts to apologise. Save it for a night when dinner is the only thing on the schedule. It opens at 2 PM most days, 3 PM on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and runs to 11 PM, closed Mondays.

Sushi at 1 AM is a short list in this city, and this kitchen on Kazbegi Avenue is on it: 10 AM to 2 AM, every day. Its own description promises a sushi menu built on Asian cooking with a modern twist, so the rolls share a page with tempura. Rolls turn up 27 times in the review topics and portions 20 times, which tells you what people leave talking about. This is the address for the night that ran long, when the alternative is another shawarma. There's a second branch in Isani if Saburtalo is the wrong side of town for you.

Oishi Sushi is the volume player on this list: 4.7 across 1,962 reviews, more than any other sushi kitchen here has collected. The room is small, a point reviewers make 6 times, and its own description sells the speed of the delivery as hard as the sushi. Waiting time tops its review topics at 13 mentions, so order before you're hungry rather than after. It runs 10 AM to 2 AM daily and takes bookings online, which is the way to get a table in a room this size.

Counter service, no restroom and no reservations: Sushi Icons is a delivery brand that keeps a few seats for people who want to eat in. It has been selling rolls since 2017 and now lists 6 cities, Kyiv to Warsaw. Google files the room as casual and quiet and sets it up for lunch, solo dining and dogs, which are allowed inside as well as out. It suits sushi at 3 PM without ceremony, or sushi sent to you: its delivery reviews single out the packaging.

Most sushi in Tbilisi is a delivery box with a dining room attached. This one has a cocktail bar attached instead: cocktails, hard liquor and a happy hour on both the drinks and the food, alongside the rolls. It's on Leo Kiacheli, and Google's crowd tags read family-friendly, groups, LGBTQ+ friendly and transgender safe space all at once. There's a kids' menu and high chairs too. It takes reservations, keeps a late-night kitchen and shuts at 1 AM, which is what makes it useful after a film or a long dinner somewhere else.

The kitchen here runs to 3 AM, 7 days a week, and that is the reason to keep the address. It's a dining room on Korneli Kekelidze in Old Tbilisi, 1,451 Google reviews holding a 4.6, and Google files it as a Japanese restaurant and a sushi takeaway. It's the answer when a night out folds at 1 AM and the group still wants a table instead of a kebab counter. Wheelchair accessible seating is the one access note on its listing.

Sooner or later a sushi habit runs into what it costs, and this is the address that makes the arithmetic easier. Sushi Rolls is a Japanese cafe on Tarkhnishvili, and it holds a 4.7 from 177 reviews. Warm atmosphere comes up 9 times in the review topics and multilingual staff in 2, which counts for something when you're ordering in a third language. It runs 11 AM to midnight, 7 days a week, and there's no booking link, so turn up.

Not every sushi place in this city is trying to be cheap, and this one leads its own listing with quality of sushi and service. Sushi Room is a Japanese restaurant on Abashidze holding a 4.6 from 663 reviews. Cocktails come up in 4 of the newest reviews, and 2 of them call the list creative. Reviewers describe the room as modern and cosy, and the evening as a relaxed one. It runs 1 PM to 11 PM daily and takes bookings on its own site, and the listing marks the entrance as not wheelchair accessible.

Its review topics file this as a cafe rather than a restaurant, and that's about right. It's a room on Napareuli with a 4.6 from 137 reviews and a kitchen that stays on until 3 AM, 7 days a week. Kind staff comes up 5 times in the review topics and atmosphere 5 times as well. Its own pitch covers both sides of the business, rolls and noodles on one side, order without leaving the house on the other. Come here when it's 1 AM in Saburtalo and the plan has stopped being ambitious.

Google files this place under 4 categories at once, poke bar and Thai restaurant among them, and that's the honest description of the menu. Bangkok has been doing Asian fast food since 2016 and holds a 4.6 from 128 reviews on Parnavaz Mepe. The listing is set up for lunch, dinner and solo dining, with quick bites, small plates, a room it calls casual and cosy, and kids welcome. Pick it when the table wants different things, because the rolls and the Thai half arrive from the same kitchen. Every day it's 12 PM to 11:30 PM, at 20 to 60 GEL a head.

The chef writes his own Google listing and it reads like a letter: he's the 18th generation of a samurai family, and the yakitori sauce is his recipe. The ramen broth takes 3.5 kg of chicken, 6 vegetables, seaweed and sardines every day. The noodles are made by hand. It's a tiny place on Tina Iosebidze and he runs it alone, which is the appeal and the problem at once. 4 of the newest reviews are about the wait and split 2 and 2, so arrive when doors open: 4 PM, or 5 PM on Mondays and Sundays.

The argument at Mochi is portion size, and both sides of it sit in the reviews. 4 of the newest reviews call the portions small, down to 3 shrimp in a tom yum. Against that sits a 4.3 from 562 reviews. Google's band is 20 to 40 GEL, beer and other alcohol are on the listing, and there are tables outside. The kitchen shuts at 10:30 PM, earlier than all but 1 place on this list.

A team of sushi chefs from Ukraine runs this one, and they put that at the top of their own listing. Size is the pitch and the review topics agree: large portions 14 times, lots of fish 10, lots of filling 7. It's also where the trouble starts: a 4.1 from 289 reviews is the lowest on this list. The recent 1-star reviews say the rolls have got smaller while the extras get charged for. Save it for the night a group needs feeding at 11 PM, because delivery and takeaway run to midnight, every day.