Vera holds one of Tbilisi’s densest clusters of serious specialty coffee, which is lucky if you are staying here and want more than a decent cappuccino. Within a compact area you have local roasters, filter-focused cafés, and bakery-and-coffee spots, most
Blueberry Nights sits at 7 Chovelidze Street in Vera, one of the best parts of Tbilisi to be hungry in. Within a short walk you have traditional Georgian restaurants, contemporary kitchens, an Italian option, design-led cafés, and courtyard dining, which
Tbilisi has one of Europe’s most talked-about electronic-music scenes, and three venues anchor it: Bassiani, beneath the Dinamo Arena stadium; KHIDI, built into a bridge on the river; and Mtkvarze, a broader electronic club on the embankment. This guide covers
Tbilisi has a small but active network of places to buy vinyl: specialist record shops, electronic-music stores, hybrid record bars, an online-first Georgian and Soviet specialist, and a flea market for unpredictable digging. The scene is compact enough that you
Tbilisi has some of the most striking Soviet-era architecture anywhere, but most guides to it get the labels wrong. “Brutalism” gets used as shorthand for almost any dramatic concrete building, when the city’s Soviet landmarks actually span Brutalism, late Soviet
Tbilisi has no single architectural style, and that is exactly what makes it worth reading closely. Historic Georgian residential houses, Persian-influenced bathhouses, Imperial-era European styles, Soviet planning, and contemporary interventions sit on top of one another rather than in neatly
