Techno Clubs in Tbilisi: Bassiani, Khidi and How to Get In

Tbilisi's techno clubs share a shape: Friday and Saturday only, doors around midnight, a strict door and a night that ends in daylight. What changes is the room, the sound and how hard the door looks at you.

Bassiani

Bassiani is the club people fly in for, and the one with the most talked-about door in town. It sits under the Dinamo Arena at 2 Akaki Tsereteli Ave, its main room is a drained swimming pool under the stadium, and a second room, Horoom, runs nights of its own.

Khidi

Khidi is Georgian for bridge, and the club sits under a road bridge on the Heydar Aliyev Embankment. Its own Google description promises state-of-the-art sound systems, and hard techno is what reviewers file it under.

The floor is as strict as the door. 2 recent reviews describe security putting guests out for being too loud or for singing along to the DJ, so dance, don't perform.

Mtkvarze

Mtkvarze is the river club, on the Baratashvili left embankment. One reviewer lays it out as a small room downstairs, the main room upstairs and a balcony over the river as the chill-out area, with minimal techno and acid house on the decks. River view and balcony top its Google review topics, and they're the reason to still be here at sunrise.

Left Bank

Left Bank calls itself a community space and nightclub, at 10 Dodo Abashidze St on the same embankment. It has 2 indoor dance floors, an outdoor space with its own DJ booth and bar, and the earliest doors of the lot, at 9 PM. On Sundays it shows free films, which is the gentlest way to see the place.

Cafe Gallery

Cafe Gallery, at 34 Alexander Griboedov St, is the veteran. In its own words it has sat since the late 2000s somewhere between a cafe, an exhibition space, a bar and a nightclub, and many Georgian DJs started playing there.

After a long break it began its 18th season on 18 September 2026. It's the one club on our nightclub list that has published a 21+ door, with ID or passport mandatory.

Club	Where	Nights	Hours	What sets it apart
Bassiani	2 Akaki Tsereteli Ave, under the Dinamo Arena	Friday and Saturday	From 11:59 PM, by its own listings	A drained pool under a stadium, plus Horoom
Khidi	Heydar Aliyev Embankment	Friday and Saturday	11:50 PM to 10 AM	Hard techno under a road bridge
Mtkvarze	Baratashvili left embankment	Friday and Saturday	11 PM to 11 AM	Minimal techno, acid house, a river balcony
Left Bank	10 Dodo Abashidze St	Friday and Saturday	9 PM to 10 AM	2 indoor floors and an outdoor DJ booth
Cafe Gallery	34 Alexander Griboedov St	Friday	11:45 PM to 6 AM	The room the scene grew out of, 21+

Tbilisi gets compared to Berlin a lot, but its scene grew up its own way, in a city where a club night has been a political act. Cafe Gallery's own line is that before Tbilisi had its club scene, there was Gallery, and Bassiani has run since the mid-2010s.

The scene made international news in May 2018, when armed police raided Bassiani and Cafe Gallery in a drugs investigation. By that evening thousands of people were dancing in protest outside Parliament, and the interior minister apologised for police misconduct the next day.

That history is part of why the clubs guard their doors and write their rules down. Bassiani's house rules open with a promise of a space free of prejudice over ethnicity, nationality, class, gender, language or religion, and they say open verbal consent before physical contact is essential.

Face control comes up at every techno door in town, and it tops the Google review topics at Bassiani, with 50 mentions, and Khidi, with 23; Cafe Gallery's reviewers raise it 8 times and Mtkvarze's 5. There's no password, and the clubs don't pretend otherwise, since Bassiani's rules let the door refuse you for undisclosed security reasons.

What the door asks varies from night to night. One Bassiani reviewer's group got in after a few questions about techno; another reviewer, who turned up around 6:30 AM on a Saturday, was asked if it was a first visit and whether they knew the rules.

So know who's playing, because a question about the line-up is easy to answer if you picked the night for the music. And arrive sober: pre-drinking on chacha is the quickest way to fail a door that turns away anyone visibly drunk.

If you're refused, walk away without arguing and try a room with an easier door. As one Left Bank reviewer puts it, the club doesn't owe you entry.

You don't have to guess what the door wants, because 2 of the clubs write it down. Bassiani's house rules have been in force since 1 December 2023, and Left Bank's rules sit on its own site; here's what each says.

Rule	Bassiani	Left Bank
Age	Under 18s not admitted	At least 18
ID	An ID or passport at the door is mandatory	A valid ID on request
Drunk or high	Refused if under the evident influence of alcohol or any other substance	Refused if visibly drunk or on drugs
Behaviour	Refused if unethical, rowdy or uncooperative, or for undisclosed security reasons	Refused if disruptive and uncooperative
Search	Entering means consenting to a personal search	No search, no entry
Photos	Photo and video recording strictly prohibited	No photography inside; your phone camera must be covered on entry and phones stay off the dance floor
What you carry	Cameras, umbrellas, backpacks and larger bags go to the cloakroom	No liquids brought in
Dress code	None published	None published

Bassiani sells tickets online, through its website or app, to people registered as club community members, and its own listings priced 2026 nights from 22 to 112 GEL. Most nights cost 40 to 62 GEL.

Khidi sells through its own site with a sign-in, and its support page asks for the ID or passport number you gave when you registered. For Saturday 3 October 2026 it listed a first pre-sale at 30 GEL and a second at 40 GEL, and 2 nights on its program already read sold out.

Club	Night or item	Price	Where the number comes from
Bassiani	Friday, both rooms (Bassiani // Horoom)	61 GEL from March to June, 62 GEL on most September Fridays, 101 GEL on 10 July, 102 GEL on 11 September	Its own night listings
Bassiani	Saturday, Horoom only	40 or 51 GEL from March to June, mostly 51 or 52 GEL from July to September	Its own night listings
Bassiani	October 2026, on sale in September	22 GEL (Horoom), 32 GEL (both rooms), 112 GEL (9 October)	Its own night listings
Khidi	Saturday 3 October 2026	30 GEL first pre-sale, 40 GEL second	Its own event page
Khidi	Entry, August 2026	50 GEL; another reviewer quotes 20 euros	One reviewer each
Cafe Gallery	Tuesday series, 2025	30 GEL at the door, 21+	Its own Instagram
Mtkvarze	A cocktail and the cloakroom, June 2026	22 GEL and 2 GEL	One reviewer

The last 3 rows are single reviewers and one 2025 post, so read them as one night each, not a price list. One reviewer calls Khidi's drink prices very good, and Bassiani's and Mtkvarze's Google listings show cards and phone payments accepted.

Leave the phone in your pocket. Bassiani's rules ban photo and video recording outright and let staff ask you to delete what you've shot from any device or social network, and Left Bank wants your phone's camera covered when you come in.

The other doors mean it too. One Khidi reviewer says a member of staff asked to see their photo gallery to check they hadn't shot anything, and a Bassiani reviewer sums up the house style as no phones allowed, only techno.

No club publishes a dress code, and Bassiani's and Left Bank's rules say nothing about clothes. Our advice is dark, comfortable and unremarkable, with shoes you can stand in until morning, because the door is looking at you, not at your outfit.

Travel light. Bassiani sends cameras, umbrellas, backpacks and larger bags to the cloakroom, and one reviewer says the cloakroom lines took over an hour, so a jacket and a small bag are the most you want to carry.

Techno in Tbilisi is a Friday and Saturday affair: Khidi, Mtkvarze, Left Bank and Cafe Gallery are closed Monday to Thursday by their Google hours. Doors are listed around midnight, the room fills later, and the night runs to 10 or 11 AM. One Bassiani reviewer arrived around 10 PM and left at 7 AM, and another walked in around 6:30 AM, so pick your hour by the line-up, not the clock.

The club is the last act of a night out in Tbilisi, and you want to reach the door fed, awake and more or less sober. Dinner here runs late, so a 9 PM table leaves room for one bar before midnight.

The easy warm-up is a DJ bar. L'Ado fills a 130-year-old baroque mansion at 1 Abo Tbileli St, and its September 2026 DJ nights listed free entry before 11 PM, 21+ and face control, with 20 GEL a guest on one Saturday. By Google it stays open to 4:30 AM on Friday and Saturday, so it works as a pre-club and as a fallback.

Eat before the queue, not after it. The late-night kitchens on our list all stay open until 2 AM or later on a Saturday, and 3 of its shawarma counters never close.

Beyond L'Ado, the old town's live music rooms run jazz, bands and DJs late into the night, and a pub crawl through Sololaki is the other way to fill the hours before the clubs open. Keep it to a couple of stops: the door is the one part of the night you can't redo.

A no at a techno door doesn't end the night. The techno rooms are one end of the Tbilisi nightclub list, which also runs Arabic music floors and bar-clubs that open every night.

Sakhelosno, at Rike Park by the Bridge of Peace, is the obvious fallback. Its own description promises drink, dance, repeat every night from 10 PM, its Google hours run to 5 or 6 AM, and one reviewer's case for it is that you get in without any unnecessary or arbitrary selection at the door.

Bassiani's rules end with advice that works for every club in town: wear earplugs, watch your drink, drink water, never mix, and don't drive. Sleeping in the club, it adds, is not allowed.

The same UK advice reports drink spiking in Georgia and warns about strangers who approach you to take you to a restaurant or nightclub. Buy your own drinks, keep them in sight, and treat a friendly invitation to a better bar with suspicion, because that's how the Tbilisi bar scam starts.

Smoking waits for outside: Georgia's tobacco law has banned it in all enclosed public places since 1 May 2018, e-cigarettes included. A cigarette means leaving the floor, so pick your moment.

Getting home is the last job of the night. The metro runs from 6 AM to midnight, which means it's shut while the clubs fill up and running again by the time you leave at 10 AM, and the UK advice is not to flag taxis in the street but to book one through an app; Bolt runs in Tbilisi.

A techno night here ends in daylight, and the city has 2 answers to that. The fast one is shawarma: 3 counters on the late-night list, Shaurmafia, Shawarma Madliani and Shawarma House, are open 24 hours by their Google hours.

The old answer is khashi, the beef tripe and feet soup that tradition eats at dawn after a long night, with raw garlic and never alone. After 10 hours of techno, a bowl of broth and a table of people in the same state as you is the right way to finish.