15 Best Street Food Spots in Tbilisi

Most shawarma counters get by on being good enough at 1 AM. This one holds 4.9 from 1,794 Google reviews, which is a different claim. Berlin Shaurma is a fast food room on Mose Gogiberidze Street in Old Tbilisi, women-owned by its own listing, with outdoor tables at 9 review mentions and a Google band of 10 to 20 GEL. Shawarma comes up 469 times in the review topics, lavash 21 and fresh vegetables 19. Come here when you want dinner in your hand and a table on the street. It's open to 1 AM, and 2 AM on Fridays and Saturdays.

Georgian food does not usually travel well in one hand. Khinkluka's answer is to shrink the khinkali, fry it and sell it by the portion on Jerusalem Street, which its own listing calls Georgia's first street food chain dedicated to mini fried khinkali. It holds 4.9 from 328 Google reviews, with khinkali at 54 mentions in the review topics and street food at 12. You'll want it for the gap between lunch and dinner rather than as either one. Hours are 12 to 10 PM, 7 days a week.

There's nowhere to sit here, and on a street food list that's a recommendation. The Osetian Khachapuri House is a bakery counter on Tianeti Highway up in Nadzaladevi, open 9 AM to 10 PM every day and holding 4.8 from 468 Google reviews. Delicious food is its most repeated review topic, at 23 mentions, with kubdari at 9 and lobiani at 8. Come here when you want the bread and not the evening built around it. Waiting time takes 5 mentions and advance ordering 4, so phone the order through before you drive out.

Fries are rarely the reason to stop anywhere, which is exactly the gap this counter fills. Fries & More sits at Dedaena in Old Tbilisi, open 12 PM to 12 AM daily, with Google putting a meal at 10 to 20 GEL and 342 reviews holding it at 4.6. There's nowhere to sit and nowhere to wait but the pavement, so this is a lunch you eat walking. The thing to plan around is the queue, which the reviews put at 20 minutes and up. Friendly staff is its most mentioned review topic, at 20.

The Google listing here is 1 line of Georgian, and all it promises is shawarma cooked over the embers. Tiflis Fast Food backs it with 4.6 from 227 reviews, out of a casual room on Ilia Vekua Street up in Nadzaladevi, where table service is marked not available and you order at the counter. It's the late option: the doors stay open to 2 AM, 7 nights a week, and one reviewer rates never being crowded among the perks. Come here when you're driving home and want the last stop of the night to be a quick one.

Saburtalo's shawarma argument mostly ends at this counter. Foodman sits in its own building on Vazha-Pshavela Avenue, with tables outside and counter seating in, open 11 AM to 1:30 AM every day and holding 4.6 from 189 Google reviews. It's owner-run, and the listing marks both the entrance and the car park as not wheelchair accessible. The thing to plan for is the wait, which the reviews put at 15 minutes and up, and past 30 on a bad night. Come here when you've got the time to stand about and want the shawarma to be worth it.

Some places sell you food and this one sells you the conversation that comes with it. Town is a shawarma counter on Revaz Tabukashvili Street in Old Tbilisi, run by an owner and his wife, and the host takes 20 mentions in its review topics against friendly staff at 19. Shawarma itself takes 101. Seating is outdoors only, so it suits a warm evening more than a wet one. It holds 4.6 from 158 Google reviews, and it's open 10 AM to 12 AM, with an 11 PM close on Thursdays.

A burger you eat standing up is a different thing from a burger you sit down to, and this one is the first kind. Feed Me! is a takeaway hatch on Mikheil Lermontovi Street in Old Tbilisi, filed by Google under burgers, tacos, takeout and delivery, and its own listing promises homemade burgers, fries and drinks at your door inside 40 minutes. It holds 4.5 from 268 Google reviews. Come here when you want the food and not the room, and order at the hatch if you'd rather not wait on a courier.

Didube is where you catch a marshrutka to Kazbegi or Mtskheta, and this is the stop before it. Joker Shaurma is a fast food counter on Transport Street holding 4.5 from 216 reviews, with shawarma at 64 mentions in its review topics and shashlik at 27. One reviewer's advice to anyone arriving at the bus station is to come here first. There is seating, but it runs out when the room fills, and it's noisy. It's open 10 AM to 10 PM every day, and it takes cards.

The kitchen here runs to 2 AM 7 nights a week, which is the reason to know about it. Green Buffet N1 is a casual fast food room on Parnavaz Mepe Avenue, 4.4 from 214 reviews, with a meal in the 10 to 20 GEL band and shawarma at 25 mentions in its review topics. There are tables inside and out, groups are on the listing's crowd line and it's marked good for kids. Come here when you're in Saburtalo, it's late, and a shawarma and something baked will do.

Get here in the morning if you want a choice. One reviewer's warning is that by the afternoon the good things have sold out, and this is a bakery whose review topics run almond croissant at 7, cheesecake at 4 and brownie at 3. Breadbar is on Nikolioz Kipshidze Street in Saburtalo, 4.4 from 261 reviews, with a room of display cases and tables rather than a hatch, and friendly staff at 14 mentions. It's open 8 AM to 10 PM, and to 9:30 PM on Sunday. There's breakfast too, and the listing takes orders for keto and diabetic desserts.

There's nowhere to sit here, so you order at the counter and eat it walking. Wrap Up is a kiosk at the Kazbegi and Tamarashvili junction in Saburtalo, holding 4.3 from 114 reviews, with shawarma at 37 mentions in its review topics and the falafel wrap at 14. Huge portions takes another 9 mentions, so what you're carrying away is a full meal in one hand. Turn up well before closing: one reviewer arrived 20 minutes short and was sent home.

Lazuri is the bakery you stop at when lunch has to be one thing, hot, and over quickly. It's on Davit Aghmashenebeli Avenue with a free car park and free street parking outside, holding 4.4 from 455 reviews at 10 to 20 GEL a head. The room has tables, a restroom and a casual atmosphere on the listing, and it's marked good for kids and for groups. Baking takes time: one reviewer waited 20 minutes for a khachapuri. Coffee, breakfast and dessert are all on the listing.

788 reviews at 4.4 is a lot of shawarma, and the queue in front of the order screens is what you're joining. MacShaurma runs 10 AM to 2 AM every day from Ilia Vekua Street in Nadzaladevi, where shawarma takes 66 mentions in its review topics and queues 4. Delivery riders stack up in the same line, so one reviewer waited over an hour behind 20 of them. Come at an off hour if you can, and note that the entrance and the restroom are wheelchair accessible.

There's no room to sit in here, so what you get is the seating area behind the counter, where one reviewer counts ashtrays on the tables. Balu is on Ilia Vekua Street in Nadzaladevi, 4.3 from 228 reviews and 10 to 20 GEL a head, with shawarma at 31 mentions in its review topics and meat at 7. Solo dining is what the listing says it's popular for. There's no restroom and no table service, and it shuts at 9 PM most nights, 11 PM on Tuesdays.