Where to eat good khachapuri and Georgian food near Tbilisi Old Town and Avilabari?

In October 2026 a participant recommended Dvor Nikaly: tasty and inexpensive, though more of a café in atmosphere. They also noted that last year in old Tbilisi every restaurant they visited served guests in Russian.

In August 2026 guests visited Pasanauri at 17/26 Nikoloz Baratashvili Street: the khinkali and khachapuri were tasty, although one of them found the khinkali slightly salty. The location is convenient, right next to the Old Town. The waiters were friendly and spoke Russian, there is also a Russian-language menu, and they sat on the second-floor terrace.

Asked where to find tasty, inexpensive khachapuri, a participant in August 2026 replied that it is made on nearly every corner in Tbilisi. In their observation, expensive cafés are rare: the priciest thing they saw was khinkali at 3 lari apiece.

In July 2026 a participant named a street shashlik stall by Avlabari metro as the place with the best grilled meat, and another traveler later confirmed it was indeed the best shashlik they had in Tbilisi. It is a nearby option in Avlabari if you want grilled meat as well as khachapuri.

In June 2026 a participant mentioned the restaurant Georgian House (ქართული სახლი), which they had visited several years earlier, in reply to a request for tasty Georgian food in Tbilisi. The visit was a while ago, so check recent reviews before going.

Street food in Tbilisi, according to a participant in June 2026, is mainly local bakeries with pies and pastries on every corner; buy where there is a queue. Early in the morning the choice is smaller: participants wrote that cafés and bakeries usually open around 10 AM, although one café in the Old Town was found opening at 9. They said 24-hour stores such as Goodwill and Fresco have decent pastries, though very early in the day they are unlikely to be fresh.

In June 2026 travelers looking for a tasty, inexpensive café in the Avlabari area said they had tried Vakhtanguri: the portions seemed tiny to them and the prices high.