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This interactive map of Tbilisi (Georgia) brings together 141 hand-picked places: 38 attractions, 48 restaurants, 25 cafés and 30 shops. It also includes 5 walking routes with their stops in order. For every place you get what it is, a practical tip and how to get there by public transport. It is free, works on your phone and needs no sign-up.
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3.8 km · ~half day · Old Town · 7 stops
3.2 km · ~4 hours · Centre and Sololaki · 7 stops
4.1 km · ~5 hours · Chugureti · 7 stops
3.0 km · ~4 hours · Avlabari and Isani · 6 stops
5.4 km · ~half day · Vera and Vake · 7 stops
ჭრელი აბანო · Abanotubani
The blue-tiled facade of the Orbeliani baths: Tbilisi's most photographed corner and the face of the sulphur quarter.
Tip: Private rooms from 100 GEL/hour; one hour is plenty. Book same-day by WhatsApp — walk-ins get turned away after 5pm.
🚇 Avlabari (L1) + 10 min walk down Abano St
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Show on mapაბანო N5 · Abanotubani
The cheapest, most authentic public sulphur bath, with intact Soviet mosaics and communal pools.
Tip: Communal pool from 10 GEL — bring flip-flops and your own towel. The mekise scrub costs ~20 GEL extra and is worth it.
🚇 Avlabari (L1) + 9 min walk
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Show on mapგულოს თერმული სპა · Abanotubani
The best-restored sulphur bathhouse in the quarter: old brick, low domes and private rooms with zero tourist kitsch.
Tip: Ask for the room at the end of Abano I Deadend — it keeps the original dome. From 100 GEL/hour, four people max.
🚇 Avlabari (L1) + 9 min walk along Grishashvili
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Show on mapსამეფო აბანო · Abanotubani
Brick domes poking out of the ground and 40°C sulphur water: the classic first-timer bathhouse in Abanotubani.
Tip: From 80 GEL/hour. Go at 9am — the water is freshly cycled and the whole quarter is empty.
🚇 Avlabari (L1) + 8 min walk
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Show on mapერეკლე მეფის აბანო · Abanotubani
Reopened in 2023 as a modern spa inside a 17th-century shell: the luxury end of the sulphur circuit.
Tip: From 200 GEL/hour, priciest in the quarter. Tea and fruit included; couples should ask for the cold-plunge suite.
🚇 Avlabari (L1) + 9 min walk to Abano I Deadend
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Show on mapლეღვთახევის ჩანჩქერი · Abanotubani
A real waterfall inside the city, at the end of a stone canyon five minutes from the sulphur baths.
Tip: Free access via the walkway behind the mosque. After rain the flow doubles — that's when the photo works best.
🚇 Avlabari (L1) + 12 min walk through Abanotubani
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Show on mapნარიყალა · Sololaki ridge
The 4th-century fortress clinging to the Sololaki ridge. The best view over Tbilisi and the sunset spot everyone climbs to.
Tip: Ride the cable car up, then walk down the ridge path to the Botanical Garden: 20 minutes and nobody on the trail.
🚇 Cable car from Rike Park (2.5 GEL with Metromoney)
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Show on mapქართლის დედა · Sololaki ridge
Aluminium Mother Georgia: a bowl of wine in one hand for friends, a sword in the other for enemies.
Tip: Walk the 400 m from Narikala along the ridge path: at sunset the silhouette against an orange sky is THE shot.
🚇 Cable car to Narikala + 10 min along the ridge
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Show on mapსაბაგირო · Rike Park ↔ Narikala
Glass cabins crossing the Mtkvari and climbing to the fortress in 90 seconds. The best-value view ride anywhere.
Tip: You need a Metromoney card — no single tickets sold. Buy one at any metro station for 2 GEL; it works on metro and buses too.
🚇 Avlabari (L1) + 7 min walk to Rike Park
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Show on mapრიყის პარკი · Avlabari
The modern left-bank park: a giant walk-on piano, dancing fountains and the base station of the Narikala cable car.
Tip: Fountains dance on the hour from 8pm to 11pm in season. Sit river-side to catch the Bridge of Peace lighting up.
🚇 Avlabari (L1) + 6 min walk
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Show on mapმშვიდობის ხიდი · Mtkvari
Michele De Lucchi's glass-and-steel bridge, with 30,000 LEDs firing up over the Mtkvari at dusk.
Tip: The light sequence starts right at sunset and runs 90 minutes. Stop mid-span and look toward Metekhi, not Rike.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 8 min walk via Erekle II
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Show on mapმეტეხის ტაძარი · Avlabari
The 13th-century church on the cliff, guarded by the equestrian statue of Vakhtang Gorgasali, the king who founded Tbilisi.
Tip: Free entry, shoulders and knees covered. The best photo isn't from here but from the terrace opposite, on Gorgasali.
🚇 Avlabari (L1) + 5 min walk down to Metekhi
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Show on mapსიონის ტაძარი · Old Town
The medieval cathedral of the Old Town, home to St Nino's grapevine cross — Georgia's most venerated relic.
Tip: The cross sits left of the altar behind easy-to-miss glass. Evening chant service is at 6pm.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 7 min walk via Kote Abkhazi
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Show on mapანჩისხატის ბაზილიკა · Old Town
The oldest surviving church in Tbilisi: a bare-stone 6th-century basilica, tiny and permanently in half-light.
Tip: The Anchiskhati choir sings Georgian polyphony at Sunday morning liturgy — arrive 15 minutes early for a spot.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 10 min walk via Shavteli
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Show on mapგაბრიაძის საათის კოშკი · Old Town
The leaning tower Rezo Gabriadze built by hand from salvaged tiles — the city's most beloved building.
Tip: An angel strikes the bell hourly, but the full puppet show runs only at noon and 7pm. Get there 10 minutes early.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 10 min walk via Shavteli
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Show on mapრეზო გაბრიაძის თეატრი · Old Town
Gabriadze's cult marionette theatre: grown-up plays that reduce a whole room to tears using wooden puppets.
Tip: Just 80 seats and it sells out weeks ahead. Book online: 'The Autumn of My Springtime' has English subtitles.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 10 min walk
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Show on mapჯუმა მეჩეთი · Abanotubani
Tbilisi's only mosque, where Sunni and Shia have prayed side by side in one hall for over a century.
Tip: Visit outside prayer times; shoes off and a headscarf for women (lent at the door). The minaret dates to 1895.
🚇 Avlabari (L1) + 11 min walk via Botanikuri
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Show on mapსამების ტაძარი · Avlabari
The Trinity Cathedral, 101 metres tall on Elia Hill: the largest Orthodox church in the Caucasus.
Tip: Enter through the side garden, not the grand stairs: there are benches with the best Old Town view and nobody uses them.
🚇 Avlabari (L1) + 12 min walk up Samreklo
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Show on mapათეშგა · Old Town
A 5th-century Zoroastrian fire temple hidden among the houses of Kldisubani, a relic of the city's Persian past.
Tip: It sits in a private courtyard behind a metal gate at Gomi 3 — if it's locked, ring the neighbour's bell.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 12 min walk up Gomi
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Show on mapბეთლემის ეკლესია · Sololaki
The white church clinging to the Sololaki hillside, at the top of the Old Town's most photogenic staircase.
Tip: Climb the Betlemi Ascent steps at sunset: the Old Town's tin roofs turn copper.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 13 min walk up Betlemi
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Show on mapდიდი სინაგოგა · Old Town
The 1913 synagogue built by the Jews of Akhaltsikhe: 26 centuries of Jewish presence in Georgia under one roof.
Tip: Visit on weekday mornings; the shamash will usually open the upper hall if you ask nicely.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 9 min walk via Kote Abkhazi
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Show on mapეროვნული ბოტანიკური ბაღი · Abanotubani
128 hectares of green gorge behind Narikala, with a 17th-century Persian bridge, a waterfall and 4,500 plant species.
Tip: Entry 4 GEL. Enter from the top (off the Narikala ridge) and exit at the bottom in Abanotubani — all downhill.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 15 min walk, or down from Narikala
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Show on mapმთაწმინდის პარკი · Mtatsminda
The amusement park at 740 m, with a Ferris wheel hanging over the edge and all of Tbilisi at your feet.
Tip: The park is free, you pay per ride. The Ferris wheel is 7 GEL and it has to be done at night, not by day.
🚇 Funicular from Chonkadze (Rustaveli L1 + 10 min walk)
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Show on mapფუნიკულიორი · Mtatsminda
The 1905 funicular that climbs the holy mountain in five minutes, stopping at the pantheon of Georgian writers.
Tip: You need the funicular's own card (2 GEL) — Metromoney doesn't work here. Get off at the mid-station for the Pantheon.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 10 min walk up Chonkadze
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Show on mapკალანტაროვის სახლი · Sololaki
Sololaki's most spectacular art nouveau entrance hall: stained glass, an iron staircase and frescoes under Soviet paint.
Tip: It's a lived-in building: go in quietly, don't ring bells, don't come after 8pm. Ask if neighbours are around.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 6 min walk via Lado Asatiani
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Show on mapსეილანოვის სახლი · Sololaki
Another secret Sololaki entrance hall, with a coloured window and a painted dome: Tbilisi art nouveau at its purest.
Tip: Light hits the stained glass between 11am and 2pm — that's when the stairwell fills with colour and the photo takes itself.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 5 min walk via Galaktion Tabidze
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Show on mapლადო გუდიაშვილის მოედანი · Sololaki
The restored square of wooden balconies that became Sololaki's open-air living room: bars, pizza and music till late.
Tip: Thursday to Saturday the square fills after 10pm. Sit on the north-side steps — that's where the locals play.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 6 min walk
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Show on mapთავისუფლების მოედანი · Centro
Tbilisi's ground zero, with a gilded St George atop a 35-metre column and the head of Rustaveli Avenue.
Tip: Almost every free walking tour starts here (11am, at the foot of the column), and you're 10 min from Sololaki and the Old Town.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1), direct exit
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Show on mapსაქართველოს ეროვნული მუზეუმი · Rustaveli
Colchian gold, 2,400-year-old jewellery and the Museum of Soviet Occupation, all in one building on Rustaveli.
Tip: Entry 15 GEL, closed Mondays. The Archaeological Treasury is in the basement and it's the one room you can't skip.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 5 min walk
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Show on mapხელოვნების მუზეუმი · Sololaki
Medieval icons, cloisonné enamel and the finest Pirosmani canvases, in a former seminary beside Freedom Square.
Tip: The Treasury (10th-century gold icons and minankari) is guided-only in timed slots — ask on arrival, not on the way out.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 4 min walk
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Show on mapოპერისა და ბალეტის თეატრი · Rustaveli
The 1851 Moorish-revival theatre on Rustaveli, with a restored neo-Persian interior and some of the Caucasus' best acoustics.
Tip: Ballet tickets start at 20 GEL in the upper boxes, and the view of the painted ceiling from up there beats the stalls.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 3 min walk
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Show on mapრუსთაველის თეატრი · Rustaveli
The 1901 rococo theatre, Georgia's most important, with an interior café under frescoes almost nobody finds.
Tip: Walk into the lobby even without a ticket: the mezzanine café is open by day and the painted ceiling is free.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 4 min walk
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Show on mapსაქართველოს ბანკის შენობა · Saburtalo
The 1975 former Ministry of Highways: concrete boxes stacked in mid-air, the most famous brutalist building in the post-Soviet world.
Tip: It's a working bank — exterior only. Best angle is from the opposite pavement on Gagarin Street.
🚇 Delisi (L2) + 15 min walk, or Bolt from the centre
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Show on mapსაქართველოს მატიანე · Tbilisi Sea
Sixteen 35-metre bronze columns carved with the whole of Georgian history: the 'Soviet Stonehenge' above the lake.
Tip: Free and always open. Go at sunset: the sun hits the columns head-on and the Tbilisi Sea spreads out behind.
🚇 Grmagele (L1) + 10 min Bolt, or Bolt straight from the centre
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Show on mapსაზეიმო სასახლე · Avlabari
The Ceremonial Palace and its glass dome: gloriously over-the-top post-Soviet architecture looking down on the Old Town.
Tip: No entry inside, but the side-garden terrace has a head-on view of Metekhi and Narikala that guidebooks miss.
🚇 Avlabari (L1) + 8 min walk
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Show on mapქორწინების სასახლე · Isani
The concrete spaceship Victor Jorbenadze built in 1985 for weddings: Tbilisi's strangest piece of brutalism.
Tip: Now a private events venue — shoot it from Bochorma Street. On Saturdays there's usually a wedding and the gate is open.
🚇 300 Aragveli (L1) + 12 min walk
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Show on mapქარვასლა · Old Town
A 19th-century caravanserai turned museum, with models and photographs of the Persian Tbilisi that no longer exists.
Tip: Entry 5 GEL, closed Mondays. The caravanserai courtyard is free and the Old Town's best rainy-day shelter.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 8 min walk via Sioni
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Show on mapკუს ტბა · Vake
The mountain lake above Vake reached by cable car: deck bars, cold water and the whole city far below.
Tip: The cable car leaves from Vake Park and costs 1 GEL with Metromoney. The loop around the lake takes a relaxed 40 minutes.
🚇 Cable car from Vake Park (no metro: bus 61 or Bolt)
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Show on mapბარბარესტანი · Chugureti
Eleven siblings rebuilt the menu from Duchess Barbare Jorjadze's 1874 cookbook. Lost Georgian cooking, back on the plate.
Tip: Book a week ahead. Order the duck in blackberry sauce and take the qvevri pairing: six glasses for 60 GEL.
🚇 Marjanishvili (L1) + 7 min walk along Aghmashenebeli
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Show on mapკაფე ლიტერა · Sololaki
Tekuna Gachechiladze's modern Georgian cooking in the Writers' House garden: the prettiest table in Tbilisi come summer.
Tip: Ask for a garden table, not indoors. The lamb-and-mint khinkali and the reworked badrijani are the two to order.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 6 min walk via Machabeli
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Show on mapპოლიფონია · Mtatsminda
Seasonal vegetable cooking and Georgian natural wine in a Chonkadze basement. The city's sommeliers' own favourite.
Tip: The menu changes weekly and is recited at the table. Let them pick the wine — their amphora list beats anything printed.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 8 min walk up Chonkadze
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Show on mapაზარფეშა · Sololaki
The restaurant that put Georgian qvevri wine on the world map, from John Wurdeman: market cooking and natural wine only.
Tip: No fixed menu — they tell you what's on. The lamb chakapuli with tarragon, when it's in season, is the city's best.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 5 min walk via Ingorokva
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Show on mapსალობიე ბია · Rustaveli
An artist's atelier turned dining room: clay-pot lobio, hot mchadi and pickles, with zero concessions.
Tip: It's in an inner courtyard at Rustaveli 17 — look for the iron gate. Lobio + mchadi + jonjoli for under 25 GEL.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 4 min walk, in through the courtyard
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Show on mapმაფშალია · Chugureti
The cult Megrelian basement: elarji that stretches like gum, fiery kharcho and corn gomi. No decor, always packed.
Tip: The elarji is for sharing and fills two. Get it with green ajika on the side, and skip the bread — you won't need it.
🚇 Marjanishvili (L1) + 10 min walk along Aghmashenebeli
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Show on mapფასანაური · Sololaki
The khinkali chain every Tbilisi local defends: thin dough, plenty of broth and honest tablecloth dining.
Tip: Order kalakuri (meat and herbs) and count the pleats: 19 or more is the standard. Hands only — never a fork.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 4 min walk via Leonidze
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Show on mapმაჭახელა · Meidan
Canonical adjaruli khachapuri, steps from Meidan Square, with the kitchen open 24 hours.
Tip: Eat adjaruli by tearing the crust off and dipping it in the egg and butter. One really does feed two.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 9 min walk to Meidan
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Show on mapრეტრო · Saburtalo
The neighbourhood grill locals pick for pork mtsvadi and Megrelian khachapuri straight out of the oven.
Tip: Pork-neck mtsvadi with red onion and tkemali: 18 GEL a skewer. Expect a wait at night, never at lunch.
🚇 Delisi (L2) + 8 min walk
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Show on mapეზო · Sololaki
A genuine Tbilisi courtyard turned restaurant: vines overhead, a cat on the chair and home-style Georgian cooking.
Tip: Entry is through an unmarked passage at Kikodze 16. In September the vine is heavy with grapes and they let you try them.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 7 min walk via Kikodze
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Show on mapსტამბა · Vera
The restaurant inside the old Soviet printing house: eight-metre ceilings and produce from its own regenerative farm.
Tip: Breakfast until noon is the best and cheapest thing here. Sit in the plant-filled atrium, not the back room.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 9 min walk via Kostava
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Show on mapწისქვილი · Mtkvari
The riverside terrace for a classic supra: khinkali, mtsvadi and live music with the Mtkvari rolling below.
Tip: Railing table, book for 8:30pm: the polyphony band starts after 9 and not every table can hear it.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 8 min walk down to the river
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Show on mapსოფია მელნიკოვას დუქანი · Rustaveli
A secret courtyard full of Gabriadze sculptures behind the museum: Georgian cooking and the best place to lose an afternoon.
Tip: Enter through the National Museum passage — there's no sign. Order the ostri and sit under the big tree at the back.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 5 min walk, museum courtyard
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Show on mapლოლიტა · Vera
The old Lagidze lemonade factory turned into the bar-restaurant where creative Tbilisi gathers at any hour.
Tip: The upstairs terrace opens in summer and that's where to be. Weekend brunch till 4pm, kitchen till 1am.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 9 min walk via Kostava
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Show on mapორო · Chugureti
Modern Megrelian with the city's best bazhe: chicken drowned in thick walnut, garlic and Imeretian saffron sauce.
Tip: Have the bazhe with gomi, not bread — that's how Samegrelo eats it. Small room: book, or arrive before 8pm.
🚇 Marjanishvili (L1) + 4 min walk
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Show on mapფარმი · Fabrika
Modern Georgian cooking with farm produce and a natural wine list that turns over weekly, inside Fabrika.
Tip: It's on the left side of the Fabrika courtyard. Order the three-amphora flight (35 GEL) before the batch runs out.
🚇 Marjanishvili (L1) + 5 min walk to Fabrika
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Show on mapნინიას ბაღი · Chugureti
Georgian family recipes in a heritage building on Aghmashenebeli, with Svan kubdari and an inner garden.
Tip: The kubdari (Svan meat bread) comes out every half hour: ask when the next batch is and wait for it.
🚇 Marjanishvili (L1) + 8 min walk along Aghmashenebeli
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Show on mapანფაუნდ დორი · Chugureti
Signature cocktails and modern Georgian cooking in a restored 19th-century mansion: the left bank's most elegant bar.
Tip: Order a chacha-and-tarragon cocktail, the house speciality. After 11pm it fills up and they stop taking bookings.
🚇 Marjanishvili (L1) + 8 min walk
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Show on mapბელეტაჟი · Vera
A 19th-century family home with its original furniture, where you eat kupati and salmon bruschetta among old portraits.
Tip: Ask for the piano room, not the front salon. The three-course lunch is 45 GEL and the best value in Vera.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 9 min walk via Kostava
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Show on mapსულიკო · Vera
Over 130 qvevri wines in a sunken courtyard, with indie producers you won't find in any bottle shop.
Tip: Ask them to build you a four-glass amber flight from different regions: 30 GEL and the best crash course in Georgian wine.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 12 min walk, or Bolt
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Show on mapქრაფტ ვაინი · Chugureti
A natural wine bar with Georgian food alongside and a by-the-bottle list that rotates with whatever arrives from Kakheti.
Tip: Almost everything is sold by the bottle, not the glass — come with two or three. Ask what landed this week; there's always something.
🚇 Marjanishvili (L1) + 10 min walk
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Show on mapჩაშნაგირი · Old Town
A straight-talking Georgian tavern: clay-pot shkmeruli, chicken mtsvadi and draught beer till late.
Tip: The shkmeruli (chicken in garlic milk) arrives bubbling — order extra shoti to mop it up: 1 GEL and it's half a dish more.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 5 min walk
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Show on mapკლიკეს ხინკალი · Sololaki
A basement devoted to khinkali with seven different fillings, including mushroom and potato-mint.
Tip: Order half kalakuri and half mushroom, plus a tarragon Lagidze lemonade — the combo every local asks for.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 5 min walk via Chitadze
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Show on mapასი ხინკალი · Old Town
Saucer-sized khinkali stuffed with nadughi cheese, mushrooms or meat. A viral concept and absurd portions.
Tip: One giant dumpling feeds two and costs about 20 GEL. Get the nadughi-and-mint one — it's the one in every video.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 8 min walk via Ierusalimi
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Show on mapკაფე დაფნა · Centro
Soft khinkali and light Georgian cooking in a pink dining room that became Tbilisi's favourite Instagram backdrop.
Tip: The back window table is the one in the photos and you book it by WhatsApp. Kitchen till 11pm.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 6 min walk via Italia
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Show on mapდედა · Old Town
A Tbilisi ruin bar with an open grill, hangover soup at dawn and a crowd half local, half digital nomad.
Tip: Khashi hangover soup is served 6–10am at weekends, which is exactly when Tbilisi makes the most sense.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 7 min walk
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Show on mapშეფი სარაჯევი · Abanotubani
Hard-to-find Meskhetian cooking: apokhti mountain cured meat, atria and khinkali from Samtskhe recipes.
Tip: Order apokhti as a starter; it comes with walnut and ajika. It's genuinely hot — get matsoni on the side.
🚇 Avlabari (L1) + 10 min walk along Gorgasali
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Show on mapონორე · Chugureti
A Chugureti carnivore temple: charcoal mtsvadi, lamb kebabi and a courtyard that fills with smoke and people every night.
Tip: Charcoal lamb mtsvadi and a Zedazeni beer. The courtyard only opens in dry weather — the indoor room is half as good.
🚇 Marjanishvili (L1) + 11 min walk
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Show on mapიასამანი · Sololaki
Georgian cooking with the city's best vegetarian options, including the khachapuri chips that became a local meme.
Tip: The spinach and beetroot pkhali come as a board of six for 22 GEL — the best vegetarian starter in Tbilisi.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 7 min walk via Lado Asatiani
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Show on mapხაშ-ხაშ · Chugureti
A modern bistro with Ghulelebi-style mountain khinkali and Georgian dishes plated like tapas.
Tip: The ghulelebi khinkali are boiled then pan-fried, with a golden base: five per order and you order them separately.
🚇 Marjanishvili (L1) + 6 min walk
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Show on mapრიგი · Chugureti
A 19th-century douqan reimagined: a khoncha sharing board, beef ostri and old Tbilisi tavern decor.
Tip: The khoncha board (cheeses, pkhali, charcuterie, pickles) is 60 GEL and feeds three with a bottle of rkatsiteli.
🚇 Marjanishvili (L1) + 8 min walk to Saarbrucken
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Show on mapბინა N37 · Saburtalo
A penthouse turned restaurant, with qvevri buried on the terrace and a 360-degree view over Saburtalo.
Tip: Book a terrace table and say you want to see the qvevri — they'll open them between services if there's time.
🚇 Delisi (L2) + 10 min walk, or Bolt
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Show on mapვინო ანდერგრაუნდ · Sololaki
Georgia's first natural wine bar: a Sololaki cellar where eight qvevri producers have sold direct since 2012.
Tip: The four-bottle tasting is 45 GEL with a cheese board. Like one? They'll sell you a bottle at cellar price.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 5 min walk via Galaktion Tabidze
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Show on map8000 ვინტაჯესი · Saburtalo
Over a thousand Georgian labels picked blind, with sommelier-led tastings and tiny family cellars.
Tip: The sommelier tasting is 70 GEL per person and needs booking. Ask them to include an unfiltered qvevri saperavi.
🚇 Delisi (L2) + 9 min walk
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Show on mapდადი · Sololaki
Wines arranged by region so you can learn Georgia glass by glass, plus charcuterie and weekend breakfast.
Tip: Five glasses with a board for 20 GEL is the best wine value downtown. Start in Imereti and finish in Kakheti.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 4 min walk via Dadiani
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Show on mapვაინ მერჩანტს · Chugureti
Rare Georgian bottles and sharing plates on Javakhishvili Street, where the owner talks you through every label.
Tip: Tell him what you've liked so far and he'll pull something from the back shelf — that's where the pet-nats and 200-bottle runs live.
🚇 Marjanishvili (L1) + 7 min walk
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Show on mapვაინ ნოთ · Vera
Live piano, a huge list and a discount if you take the bottle home: Vera's most sociable wine bar.
Tip: Take a bottle home and they knock 5 GEL off. Piano starts at 8:30pm, Thursday to Sunday.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 12 min walk via Melikishvili
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Show on mapკიკოძე ბარი · Wine Factory N1
Cocktails and brunch inside the old Wine Factory N1 complex, Vera's prettiest industrial courtyard.
Tip: The complex holds six bars: start here with brunch and work your way deeper into the courtyard as the night falls.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 13 min walk, or Bolt
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Show on mapსაამური · Fabrika
The natural wine bar in the Fabrika courtyard: cheap glasses, a young crowd and bottles from producers just starting out.
Tip: Glasses from 12 GEL, cheapest in the courtyard. Ask about the just-bottled Rtveli wines — they land in October.
🚇 Marjanishvili (L1) + 5 min walk to Fabrika
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Show on mapბასიანი · Didube
The most famous techno club in the post-Soviet world, in the empty pool under Dinamo stadium. Strict door, legendary sound.
Tip: Online guest registration and a door interview: go as a pair, not a group, after 2am. No photos inside, ever.
🚇 Didube (L1) + 12 min walk, or Bolt to Dinamo Arena
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Show on mapხიდი · Saburtalo
Industrial techno in the concrete guts of the Vakhushti Bagrationi bridge, over the river. Brutal sound, cult line-ups.
Tip: Open Friday and Saturday from 1am and it doesn't really start till 3. Entry runs 30–50 GEL depending on the line-up.
🚇 Tekhnikuri Universiteti (L2) + 12 min walk, or Bolt
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Show on mapმტკვარზე · Saburtalo
A Soviet riverside fish restaurant turned club: waterfront terrace by day, techno by dawn.
Tip: The summer terrace opens at sunset with mellow DJs and free entry — the city's best sunset plan and almost nobody knows.
🚇 Tekhnikuri Universiteti (L2) + 10 min walk, or Bolt
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Show on mapსაქსეს ბარი · Vera
Tbilisi's queer and alternative after-party: small door, small floor and the freest, sweatiest night in town.
Tip: It only really starts after 3am. Entry is an unmarked door in the courtyard — follow the music, not the GPS.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 9 min walk via Kostava
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Show on mapვარშავა · Sololaki
A tiny basement bar with vinyl and homemade chacha, where half of Sololaki ends the night.
Tip: Ask for the house chacha with lemon and honey. It holds twenty: if it's full, come back in half an hour, don't queue.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 4 min walk
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Show on mapდედაენა ბარი · Dedaena Park
The park bar next to the Dry Bridge: cheap beer, outdoor tables and the most democratic crowd in Tbilisi.
Tip: Pints from 8 GEL. Sunday afternoon, after the Dry Bridge market, is when the park is at its best.
🚇 Marjanishvili (L1) + 9 min walk along the river
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Show on mapფაბრიკა · Chugureti
The courtyard of the old Soviet textile factory: bars, design shops and the long table where the whole city crosses paths.
Tip: The courtyard is public and free — you don't need to be staying there. Design market in the afternoon, DJ at the long table at night.
🚇 Marjanishvili (L1) + 5 min walk via Ninoshvili
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Show on mapბარბარა · Old Town
Signature cocktails and summer live jazz, in an old Kote Abkhazi house with a wooden balcony over the street.
Tip: The first-floor balcony has three tables and you must request it when booking. Live jazz Thursdays and Saturdays from 9pm.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 7 min walk via Kote Abkhazi
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Show on mapლივინგ ვინო · Sololaki
Natural wine and vegetarian cooking in a Lado Asatiani house: small, bright and the greenest menu in Sololaki.
Tip: Six tables and no bookings: arrive at 7pm sharp or you're out. Always the pkhali and the house amber wine.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 8 min walk via Lado Asatiani
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Show on mapშავი · Sololaki
The roastery that brought specialty coffee to Tbilisi: own beans, long filters and a bar always full of regulars.
Tip: Order the day's V60 filter, not the espresso. They sell 250 g bags for 28 GEL and grind it for you on the spot.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 6 min walk via Lado Asatiani
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Show on mapქოფი ლაბი · Vake
Georgia's first specialty roaster: alternative brew methods, barista courses and the city's benchmark cappuccino.
Tip: There's a free Saturday cupping at noon if you ask at the bar. Opens at 8am — perfect before heading up to Turtle Lake.
🚇 State University (L2) + 12 min walk, or Bolt
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Show on mapოკრო · Vera
An industrial-chic Vera roastery with a proper pastry chef: the best croissant-and-filter combo in Tbilisi.
Tip: Pistachio croissants come out at 9:30am and sell out before noon. Sit at the bar facing the roaster.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 13 min walk via Melikishvili
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Show on mapცვარი · Chugureti
Scandinavian minimalism near the station: light roasts, Nordic filters and the most rotating bean list in town.
Tip: The guest bean changes fortnightly and they let you smell it before you choose. Order filter — espresso isn't their thing.
🚇 Station Square (L1/L2) + 8 min walk
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Show on mapსლოუ · Chugureti
Coffee by day, wine bar by night on Aghmashenebeli: the hybrid that best sums up today's Tbilisi.
Tip: From 6pm the coffee list is swapped for natural wine. That changeover hour is the best time to turn up.
🚇 Marjanishvili (L1) + 6 min walk along Aghmashenebeli
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Show on mapგრაინდი · Sololaki
A third-wave basement with a concept store inside: technical coffee, records, local designer clothing and wifi that holds.
Tip: Best downtown spot to work: plugs at every table and nobody rushes you. Closes at 8pm.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 5 min walk
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Show on mapსანტინო · Sololaki
A pavement bar on Galaktion Tabidze with beans from half the world and the best takeaway coffee downtown.
Tip: Open at 8am and one of the few downtown doing proper espresso before 9. Flat white 10 GEL.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 3 min walk
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Show on mapკაფე ლეილა · Old Town
An old confectionery with Persian frescoes on the walls, next to the Gabriadze tower. Tea, cakes and time standing still.
Tip: It's ten metres from the Gabriadze clock — the perfect place to wait out the 7pm show with a walnut cake.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 10 min walk via Shavteli
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Show on mapქოფი ფლეისი · Sololaki
A plant-filled living room with a fully plant-based menu: alt milks, vegan cakes and the calmest breakfast in the area.
Tip: The whole menu is vegan without making a fuss. The walnut-and-date cake sells out mid-afternoon — order it with the coffee.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 6 min walk via Galaktion Tabidze
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Show on mapპალპი · Vera
Paris-grade laminated pastry in Vera: French-butter croissants, kouign-amann and coffee that supports without upstaging.
Tip: Batches come out at 9am and 3pm. Kouign-amann is weekends only and gone within the hour.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 12 min walk via Melikishvili
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Show on mapმუზეუმი · Rustaveli
The Fine Arts Museum café with a terrace onto Rustaveli: the best pause between medieval icons and the avenue.
Tip: You don't need a museum ticket to use the café. The terrace faces sideways, away from the Rustaveli noise.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 4 min walk
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Show on mapრედ მენი · Vera
Tbilisi's digital-nomad headquarters: big tables, plugs on every wall and decent coffee served all day long.
Tip: The back room is the quiet one with the best signal. Informal rule: one coffee every two hours and nobody minds.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 11 min walk via Kostava
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Show on mapჰურმა · Vera
A bright Melikishvili café with a veggie menu, bowls and the area's best homemade tarragon lemonade.
Tip: The homemade tarragon (tarkhuna) lemonade is fluorescent green with no colouring. It's the Georgian flavour you don't expect.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 10 min walk via Melikishvili
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Show on mapეარი · Sololaki
A Sololaki book-café with shelves on every wall, sunken armchairs and genuine rainy-afternoon quiet.
Tip: There's a shelf of Georgian literature in English translation — the city's best place to buy a souvenir you can read.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 7 min walk via Kikodze
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Show on mapლუი · Sololaki
A corner café open very late, with a Sololaki terrace and a crowd that never quite leaves.
Tip: One of the few downtown with a kitchen past midnight. The corner terrace is the best spot to watch Sololaki go by.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 4 min walk
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Show on mapდეილი გრაინდი · Old Town
A specialty coffee window 200 metres from Freedom Square: the best takeaway before heading down to the Old Town.
Tip: Opens at 8am, barely has tables and so never has a queue. Filter coffee 8 GEL, cheapest specialty in the Old Town.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 3 min walk via Kote Abkhazi
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Show on mapბუნკერი · Centro
A dead-end alley off Atoneli hiding Tbilisi's most experimental roastery: unusual cold brews and fermentations.
Tip: Try the anaerobic-fermentation cold brew: it tastes of fruit, not coffee, and it's the only one in town. 14 GEL.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 8 min walk via Atoneli
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Show on mapერთი კავა · Rustaveli
A minimal bar on a lane behind Rustaveli, with the most consistent espresso downtown and an office crowd.
Tip: Four stools and everything is drunk standing. The cortado is 7 GEL and the best value downtown.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 5 min walk via Laghidze
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Show on mapქოფისტა · Freedom Square
The Georgian chain that blankets the city: decent coffee, fast wifi and long hours right by Freedom Square.
Tip: The emergency stop before a tour: opens at 8am, takes cards and the bathroom is clean and free.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1), direct exit
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Show on mapკიკლიკო · Vake
A Vake neighbourhood patisserie with reworked Georgian cakes and the best shaded seats around.
Tip: Order the churchkhela tart — a rework of the walnut-and-grape-must sweet, and you won't find it anywhere else.
🚇 No nearby metro: bus 61 from Rustaveli or Bolt
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Show on mapლინვილი · Old Town
A Kote Abkhazi café-bistro with long breakfasts, newspapers on the table and the air of an old European café.
Tip: Breakfast runs till 1pm and it's the Old Town's best: eggs with nadughi, shoti and matsoni for 22 GEL.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 5 min walk via Kote Abkhazi
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Show on mapპური გულიანი · Saarbrucken
The cult Saarbrucken bakery-café: sourdough, filled pastries and a pavement queue every single day.
Tip: The nadughi-and-tarragon filled pastry is the speciality: they bake 60 a day and by 11am they're gone.
🚇 Marjanishvili (L1) + 8 min walk to Saarbrucken
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Show on mapმულენ ელექტრიკი · Fabrika
A café-bar in the Fabrika courtyard, with outdoor tables and the best seat for watching the hub's fauna.
Tip: Take the tables on the left wing of the courtyard: sun in the morning, shade in the afternoon.
🚇 Marjanishvili (L1) + 5 min walk to Fabrika
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Show on mapპროსპეროს წიგნები · Rustaveli
Tbilisi's oldest English-language bookshop, with its café in a Rustaveli courtyard: every expat's refuge.
Tip: Enter through passage 34 on Rustaveli — no street sign. The translated-Georgian-literature section is the best in the country.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 3 min walk
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Show on mapქოფისტერი · Centro
An independent café near Orbeliani with neighbourhood prices and a small bar that nails the basics.
Tip: Cappuccino at 7 GEL, among the cheapest downtown with specialty beans. Opens 9am, closes early at 7pm.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 8 min walk to Orbeliani
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Show on mapმშრალი ხიდი · Mtatsminda
The open-air Soviet flea market: Zenit cameras, medals, USSR porcelain and minankari enamel laid out on blankets.
Tip: Weekends from 11am is when it's fully set up. Always haggle: offer half and settle around 65%.
🚇 Marjanishvili (L1) + 10 min walk along the river
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Show on mapდეზერტირების ბაზარი · Didube
Tbilisi's biggest food market: spices, mountain cheeses, hanging churchkhela and fresh grape must come autumn.
Tip: Go between 8 and 11am. Buy svanuri marili (Svan salt), khmeli suneli and fresh churchkhela — in September they make it right there.
🚇 Station Square (L1/L2) + 5 min walk
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Show on mapმეიდნის ბაზარი · Old Town
The underground bazaar beneath Meidan Square, with tunnels full of wine, spices, carpets and Caucasus souvenirs.
Tip: It's underground, which makes it the Old Town's best rainy-day shelter. Prices are negotiable, wine especially.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 9 min walk to Meidan
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Show on mapგალერეა თბილისი · Freedom Square
The downtown mall inside a historic building on Freedom Square: international brands and a food court with a view.
Tip: The top-floor terrace is free and has the best view over Freedom Square. VAT refund desk on the ground floor.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1), connected underground
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Show on mapისთ ფოინთი · Samgori
Georgia's biggest shopping centre, on the airport road: 150 stores, cinema, food court and outlet.
Tip: It's on the way to the airport: if your flight is at night, leave bags in the lockers and kill the afternoon here.
🚇 Samgori (L1) + bus 350, or Bolt from the centre
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Show on mapსითი მოლი · Saburtalo
The Saburtalo mall where locals actually shop, with Georgian brands and local prices away from the tourist circuit.
Tip: The basement supermarket has the best qvevri wine selection at shelf prices — far cheaper than in the Old Town.
🚇 Vazha-Pshavela (L2) + 8 min walk
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Show on mapკავკასიური ხალიჩები · Old Town
Real Caucasus rugs: Dagestani kilims, Svan weavings and antique pieces with export certificates.
Tip: Anything over 50 years old needs a Ministry of Culture export permit — they handle it, so ask before you pay.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 8 min walk via Kote Abkhazi
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Show on mapანუკი · Vera
The store of Anouki Areshidze, one of the Georgian designers who put Tbilisi on the international fashion map.
Tip: Past-season archive pieces hang on the back rail at half price, with no sign saying so.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 10 min walk via Tarkhnishvili
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Show on mapჩემი სული · Sololaki
Georgian niche perfumery: fragrances built on tkemali, tarragon, walnut and other smells that exist only here.
Tip: Ask to try the tarragon (tarkhuna) one: it's the smell of a Georgian childhood, bottled. 10 ml travel vials 45 GEL.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 6 min walk via Galaktion Tabidze
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Show on mapეთნო დიზაინი · Vera
Ceramics, Svan felt, minankari enamel and textiles made by Georgian artisans, with not one imported souvenir.
Tip: Svan felt hats (papanaki) start at 35 GEL and are the Georgian souvenir people actually wear after the trip.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 8 min walk via Akhvlediani
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Show on mapხურჯინი · Old Town
An Old Town craft shop specialising in minankari (Georgian cloisonné enamel) and traditional silverwork.
Tip: A handmade minankari pendant starts at 90 GEL. Resin fakes weigh half as much — heft it before you pay.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 6 min walk via Anton Katalikos
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Show on mapსაუნჯე · Old Town
Medieval-Georgian-inspired jewellery and objects beside the Gabriadze tower: crosses, icons and contemporary minankari.
Tip: They copy motifs from 10th-century icons held in the Fine Arts Museum — see the museum first, then come to buy.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 10 min walk via Shavteli
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Show on mapორნამენტი · Old Town
Well-chosen Georgian souvenirs on Bambis Rigi: Shrosha ceramics, enamels, drinking horns and jarred spices.
Tip: A wine horn (kantsi) can't be set down — you must empty it. Buy the small one if you'll actually use it; the big one is decor.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 8 min walk
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Show on map8000 ვინტაჯესი · Old Town
Tbilisi's benchmark bottle shop: over a thousand Georgian labels chosen blind, with international shipping sorted.
Tip: They ship six-packs to Europe and the Americas — cheaper than excess baggage. Ask for the form when you walk in.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 5 min walk via Tabukashvili
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Show on mapდეკანტერი · Rustaveli
300 hand-picked Georgian wines in a hidden Rustaveli courtyard, with tastings from 15 GEL and small plates.
Tip: It's in an unsigned courtyard at Rustaveli 26 — go through the gate and keep walking. Three-amber tasting is 15 GEL.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 4 min walk, inner courtyard at Rustaveli 26
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Show on mapღვინის ბიბლიოთეკა · Old Town
250 Georgian wineries shelved like a library, with wines by the glass and Friday–Saturday tastings.
Tip: You can taste by the glass before buying the bottle — almost nobody in Tbilisi lets you. Tastings Friday and Saturday at 7pm.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 9 min walk via Chakhrukhadze
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Show on mapყარალაშვილის მარანი · Old Town
A 600-year-old family marani in the Old Town: qvevri buried in the floor and tastings from 5 GEL with the owner.
Tip: Ask to go down into the marani: the qvevri are under your feet and they'll show you the clay-sealed mouth. Free if you buy a bottle.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 6 min walk via Vertskhli
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Show on mapღვინის გალერეა · Chugureti
Half museum, half bottle shop, in a heritage building near Fabrika: rare labels and objects from Georgian wine history.
Tip: The antique qvevri collection at the back is free to see — ask at the counter, it isn't signposted anywhere.
🚇 Marjanishvili (L1) + 7 min walk via Tsinamdzghvrishvili
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Show on mapხარება · Rustaveli
The flagship store of one of Kakheti's historic wineries, on Rustaveli: chacha, saperavi and quick standing tastings.
Tip: The 45% white-grape chacha is the most Georgian gift you can carry: small bottle 25 GEL, and sealed it passes as duty-free.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 2 min walk
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Show on mapმუხრანი · Meidan
The shop of Prince Mukhranbatoni's estate winery beside Meidan: estate wines and the best gift packaging in town.
Tip: The estate reserve saperavi is worth it and isn't sold outside Georgia. They'll box bottles in wood at no charge.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 9 min walk to Meidan
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Show on mapპეტ-ნატი · Vera
A tiny Vera bottle shop devoted to natural wine and Georgian ancestral-method sparklings — the qvevri new wave.
Tip: They work with 2,000-bottle-a-year growers: what's here today may be gone tomorrow. Free corkage if you drink it in.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 10 min walk via Kostava
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Show on mapქართული კალათა · Orbeliani
A Georgian farm-goods store: natural wine, Gurian tea, unusual preserves, churchkhela and mountain honey.
Tip: Gurian black tea is the souvenir nobody takes and the one most appreciated later: 20 GEL per 100 grams.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 8 min walk to Orbeliani
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Show on mapბითაძის ჩაი · Sololaki
The Bitadze family have grown tea in Guria since before the USSR and sell their harvest here: green, black and smoked.
Tip: They let you taste before buying and don't charge for it. Ask for the smoked black — the tea the whole USSR drank.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 5 min walk via Galaktion Tabidze
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Show on mapთიხა · Centro
Handmade contemporary Georgian ceramics: supra plates, wine jugs and pieces that survive the suitcase.
Tip: The green-glazed wine jugs follow the traditional Georgian shape, and they bubble-wrap them free for the flight.
🚇 Rustaveli (L1) + 5 min walk
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Show on mapბაბალე · Old Town
An Old Town pottery studio where you can watch the wheel at work: cups, bowls and miniature qvevri pieces.
Tip: They run two-hour open classes for 60 GEL and your fired piece is ready in two days — book on arrival, not on your last day.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 7 min walk via Dumas
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Show on mapრეტრო ტრეში · Chugureti
Soviet objects, vinyl, cameras and vintage clothing salvaged from Tbilisi flats. The Dry Bridge, but curated.
Tip: Original Soviet enamel signs from 60 GEL — much better value than the Dry Bridge and no haggling needed.
🚇 Marjanishvili (L1) + 7 min walk via Mazniashvili
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Show on mapსელექტორი · Sololaki
Vintage clothing picked piece by piece, heavy on 90s sportswear and Soviet garments local designers come hunting for.
Tip: Restock is Thursday morning and the good stuff goes the same day. Fixed prices, no haggling: mostly 30–80 GEL.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 4 min walk
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Show on mapზარაფხანა · Freedom Square
The historic Georgian jeweller: minankari, filigree and reworkings of pieces from the national archaeological treasury.
Tip: The Colchian-gold series copies pieces in the National Museum three blocks away — worth seeing those first.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 2 min walk
Featured in: In Your Pocket
Show on mapოქროს ბაზარი · Chugureti
The gold market under the central station: dozens of workshops where you watch minankari being made and buy by weight.
Tip: Gold is priced per gram at the day's rate plus workmanship — ask for both numbers separately before closing the deal.
🚇 Station Square (L1/L2), lower level of the station
Featured in: In Your Pocket · Wander-Lush
Show on mapთონე · Old Town
A street-facing tone (clay oven) in the Old Town, where shoti bread comes off the wall for 1 GEL.
Tip: Bread comes out every 15 minutes from 8am to 8pm. Take it straight from the oven and eat it walking — that's how Georgia does it.
🚇 Liberty Square (L1) + 7 min walk via Sioni
Featured in: Lonely Planet · Wander-Lush
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