Tbilisi Food Guide
A tour of Tbilisi through its defining dishes, from market-stall churchkhela to the national cheese bread.
Trip Stops
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Tbilisi's largest and oldest food market, named after the deserting soldiers who sold their gear here in the 1920s. Walk the stalls for churchkhela — walnuts strung on thread and dipped repeatedly in thickened grape juice, sometimes called 'Georgian Snickers' — along with cheese, spices, and dried fruit.
📍 Tbilisi, Tbilisi, Georgia
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A modern bakery-cafe on Saarbrucken Square, widely regarded as the current standard-bearer for Adjaruli khachapuri in Tbilisi, with a wood-fired oven visible from the dining room. Retro is a strong second opinion if you want to compare the city's best boat-shaped khachapuri.
📍 Tbilisi, Tbilisi, Georgia
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Billed as Tbilisi's original khinkali restaurant, on historic Gorgasali Square in Old Town, with an open kitchen where the dumplings are hand-pleated in view of diners. It serves around ten khinkali varieties and carries some of the highest review volume of any Georgian restaurant in the city.
📍 Tbilisi, Tbilisi, Georgia
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A hidden basement restaurant inside the Rustaveli Theater, decorated like an art gallery with vintage posters and artifacts. Its name literally means 'a place for lobio,' the bean stew served bubbling in a clay pot with pickled vegetables and mchadi cornbread.
📍 Tbilisi, Tbilisi, Georgia
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Named for 19th-century writer and chef Barbare Jorjadze, whose 1874 cookbook was rediscovered at Tbilisi's Dry Bridge flea market and now supplies the entire menu. Expect dishes largely absent from other Georgian restaurants, like rabbit wrapped in ham, pumpkin patties, and cherry soup with mint.
📍 Tbilisi, Tbilisi, Georgia
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A restaurant-museum complex built around a natural waterfall and a working water mill, with nightly live Georgian music and dance. Come for mtsvadi, chunks of meat grilled over burning grapevine cuttings for a faint woodsmoke flavor, dipped in tkemali plum sauce rather than a marinade.
📍 Tbilisi, Tbilisi, Georgia
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