23 Cool Bars in Tbilisi | Wine, Beer & Cocktails

The nightlife scene in Tbilisi is as lively and diverse as the city itself. When it comes to bars in Tbilisi, there is something for everyone, from cozy and intimate hideaways to trendy rooftop lounges with great city views.

Whether you are looking for a casual night out with friends or a sophisticated bar to enjoy a cocktail, Tbilisi bars are here to impress. This list of cool bars in Tbilisi includes local (and my personal) favorites, wine bars, craft beer spots, and cocktail bars.

Best bars in Tbilisi that locals love

Dedaena Bar

Situated in Dedaena Park (‘Dedaena’ means “mother tongue” in English), this is one of the local favorite Tbilisi bars to pre-party on live music before experiencing the underground Tbilisi nightlife.

Even if you are not planning on heating any clubs late at night, Dedaena Bar is still a great spot to attend some of their live music events and dance to the tunes of local musicians and artists.

Their diverse drink menu offers local beer (Alkhanaidze is everyone’s favorite), classic cocktails, chacha (local vodka-like spirit), and their own brewed Georgian Gin. And when you get hungry, they have delicious vegetarian burgers, appetizers, and falafel wrap.

Note that there is a face control at the entrance, and while they are moderate about who they let in, I’d suggest registering on their website to get the authorization and gain a multi-pass QR code.

Lado by Valiko Mansion

Located on Gudiashvili Square, a few minutes from Freedom/Liberty Square, Lado by Valiko Mansion is another favorite bar in Tbilisi for many locals and foreigners. 

With a vintage and slightly eclectic design, the space is big and full of interesting decor items and comfortable couches and armchairs. It’s a relatively quiet and laid-back space to hang out on weekdays and usually gets pre-club crowds on Fridays and weekends. 

Cocktails are delicious, with a variety to choose from. My Yellow Mellow was quite tasty with balanced sweetness. And if you get hungry, they serve a handful of meals, including salad, bruschettas, pasta, and dessert.

Black Dog Bar at Wine Factory N1

With now two locations, Black Dog Bar has become one of the favorite hangouts for locals and foreigners.

I like the branch at Wine Factory N1 on Petriashvili Street because it’s more spacious than the one in the Sololaki neighborhood, has more tables, and opens up as an open-air bar in warmer months. The interior, with plants and a painting on the wall, definitely adds a unique touch to the space. 

Their drink menu offers craft beer, cocktails, and other alcoholic drinks. The food is also quite delicious, and their extensive menu features burgers, grilled meat, burritos and wraps, salads, appetizers, soups, and even a dessert.

Mozaika

Mozaika on Vashlovani Street is another local’s favorite to hang out or even pre-party before going to a club. With a good atmosphere and lively buzz, Mozaika also attracts expats and tourists. 

This simple place offers a few tables on its first floor and more comfortable chairs and bin bags on the second floor. The space is small and sometimes gets packed. It’s also one of the relatively cheap bars in Tbilisi (depending on what you are drinking) to get the night started. 

Chacha Time

As the name suggests, Chacha Time is a bar offering a wide choice of high alcoholic Georgian spirit called Chacha. And if you don’t know, it is typically made from the leftover skin and stems of grapes after making Georgian wine. 

Chacha Time serves some of the best chacha from famous small and big companies specializing in this drink. Besides classic ones, they also have a wide choice of fruit tincture chacha on their menu, sold in 25 ML.  

However, if shots are not your type, they also have chacha-based cocktails, including Chacha Spritz, Chacha Sour, Bloody Mariam, Mimoza, and New York Saperavi, to name just a few. 

Their food menu also offers full dinner/lunch meals, desserts, and bar snacks. Their Nadughi (ricotta-like) sticks with matsoni-ajika (spicy yogurt) sauce were delicious, and so was the simple fried garlic bread with cheese sauce.

Rooster Bar and Grill

The ground floor section of the Rooster Bar in Dedaena Park is one of my favorite outdoor bars in Tbilisi during summer. Within the leafy surroundings of the park, this bar provides a relaxing atmosphere for locals and foreigners to unwind at the end of the day.

Whether you’re in the mood for a well-crafted cocktail or a simple beer, the bar has something to satisfy every taste. The bar also serves salads, sandwiches, and main courses.

Top speakeasy and cocktail bars in Tbilisi

Situated within a multipurpose dining hall called Zeche that was once a tobacco factory canteen, Brouge contributes to the venue’s industrial ambiance. 

The bar has a moody, underground vibe—think raw brick walls, warm amber and red lighting, and flameless candle-lit tables. 

The bar hosts various events, including live performances of local artists, making it perfect for late-evening hangouts or even a pre-club warmup.

Apotheka Bar and Lounge

Housed in the former pharmacy of a German pharmacist, Ferdinand Oten, at Leonidze Street, a few meters from Freedom/Liberty Square, Apotheka is a cocktail bar and a lounge opened by famous Georgian female chef Tekuna Gachechiladze.

She is also behind the Cafe Littera restaurant in Whriter’s House Museum courtyard and Taqueria Teko’s Tacos mentioned below and has a few other eateries in Tbilisi.

The building itself is one of the good examples of Sololaki’s Art Nouveau buildings, both inside and outside. The handpainted decorations on the walls and flower patterns on the ceiling have been restored during the renovation.

Massive wooden cupboards are also the original of the pharmacy that opened here in 1902, now displaying various glasses and bottles.

I love that the bartenders wear white lab coats and house cocktails symbolize the history and heritage of the place with corresponding names – Penicillin, Valeriana, Aspirin, and Floradol.

Besides cocktails, they have an extensive menu of various alcoholic drinks and a short menu of snacks to nibble on.

Ambavi

Located on Galaktion Tabidze Street, a few meters from Freedom/Liberty Square, this speakeasy-like bar is a go-to place for many locals to hang out. 

This dim bar illuminated with red light has one of the quirky designs where white fabrics with text on them drapes from the ceiling, walls have more text, and the furniture is vintage, sometimes even old cinema chairs. The menu includes local bottled beer and various cocktails. 

To find it, come to No.12 and look for a beige wooden door with AMBAVI stenciled below the building number. Walk to the last floor and ring the doorbell for the security to open. 

Taqueria Teko’s Tacos

Situated in Wine Factory No.1, Taqueria Teko’s Tacos is another choice for a fun night out. As the name suggests, the place serves tacos, Mexico-inspired meals, tequila, and other cocktails. It’s a fun place to be over the weekend when it gets pretty busy.

Their cocktails are pretty good and reasonably priced. They do all sorts of Margaritas and classics such as gin tonic and tequila sunrise. The Passion Fruit Margarita is very good and flavorful.

Unfound Door

Unfound Door is a complex with a hotel, an excellent restaurant for modern Georgian cuisine, and a late-night club-like space. If you are up for dancing to enjoy the local Tbilisi nightlife scene that’s not exactly a club, the basement floor is the space for you that pumps music until 2 am. 

However, if you are after more sophisticated and fancy bars in Tbilisi with an atmospheric setting in a 19th-century old merchant house that serves delicious cocktails, come to the restaurant space to enjoy their delicious signature cocktails.

Tbilisi wine bars

Sadzvele Wine Hub

New in 2025

Sadzvele Wine Hub, incorporating a wine bar, school, and a conference room, opened in the fall of 2024 in the historic building at Wine Factory N1.

This historic landmark, built in 1896, is also the oldest wine factory in Tbilisi and still preserves the oldest cellar in the city with hundreds of bottles you can peek at through a glassed door (unfortunately, not open to the public to enter).

Founded by three wine experts, Sadzvele Wine Bar features around 200 wines that they specifically selected based on taste, bouquet, and characteristics typical and unique to specific grapes and wines.

You can book a wine tasting to understand Georgian wines better or enjoy the beautifully decorated space with appetizers and platters that are well-paired with wine.

The space is massive, and various items, such as Qvevri clay vessels and old dusty wine bottles, are on display as interior decor before you enter the bar.

The Sadzvele Wine Bar’s room has a rustic yet modern charm with a vaulted brick ceiling. Long wooden tables with benches in the center invite communal gatherings, while smaller tables tucked into the corners offer a more intimate dining experience.

Grand circular chandeliers evoke the ambiance of a medieval cellar, while floor-to-ceiling metal shelving on the sides showcases an impressive collection of wine bottles, adding a functional yet aesthetic touch.

Ferment Wine Bistro

A new addition to the wine bars in Tbilisi, Ferment Wine Bistro is a lovely wine bar and an informal restaurant on the ground floor of the old 19th-century building off Gudiashvili Square, a 5-minute walk from Freedom Square.

Created by a winemaker, Rezi Tsetskhladze, the venue’s concept spins around fermented beverages and slow food, expressed in its unique design – fermentation bubbles of the bar and chiller adorned with vine and terroir-inspired panels.

The fusion kitchen offers an exciting blend of multinational influences with a characteristic Georgian twist crafted with seasonal and organic local produce.

The one-page food menu offers nibbles, salads, main courses, and desserts of modernized Georgian cuisine. Here, you can find olives harvested in Kakheti, 48-hour fermented sourdough bread, charcuterie with local ham, Kakhetian salad with peaches and Xeres (Sherry) vinegar, and many intriguing meals.

Rezi himself curates the wine selection of his bar and brings rare Georgian grape varieties, qvevri, natural, aged, and fine wines from different regions and worldwide. The flavor and taste of these unique wines differ Ferment Wine Bistro from other wine bars in Tbilisi.

It also hosts wine and culinary events occasionally, so keep an eye on its Facebook page.

Warehouse

This newly opened wine bar and shop, located in the Hotel and Cafe Stamba, offers a wide selection of natural wines from Georgia and Europe. 

As you walk through the plant-covered pergola from Stamba’s courtyard, the entrance is on your left. It’s right in front of Space Farm, the micro herb greenhouse. Gran a glass of wine and enjoy the vibrant yard environment. 

There is no menu, and they don’t offer all their wines by the glass. Instead, you can choose from a few open bottles chilling on an ice bed on the counter. They usually have both Georgian and European wines, as well as red and white. 

You can also visit the store’s warehouse to browse its wine selection and buy a bottle to enjoy at your convenience. 

Wine Point

Located a few minutes from Freedom/Liberty Square on Ingorokva Street, Wine Point is a small bar with an extensive selection of Georgian wines, from pet nats to ambers and sparkling wines. 

This Tbilisi wine bar’s cozy ambiance is ideal for a friend’s get-together or a romantic evening. They also offer wine tasting of four kinds of wines with appetizers for 45 GEL per person. Reservation is required. 

Every Friday and Saturday from 7 pm, they also have a wine buffet, which includes one glass of wine with snacks costing 25 GEL per person. Additionally, the bar offers “wine of the day” for 10-15 GEL per glass, depending on the type of wine. 

Wine Code 

Located in the historic Avlabari district on Wine Raise Street, this wine bar in Tbilisi is an excellent place to try some of the extraordinary Georgian wines. 

The friendly staff is eager to explain the unique story of each wine, its terroir, grape varieties, and winemaking techniques. The bar showcases wines from small to medium-sized wine cellars stored in a separate room in ideal conditions and at the right temperature where bottles lie down. 

The storage cellar also has small qvevris on display for you to understand and see where the traditional Georgian wine is made, while the satsnakheli, where the grapes used to be crashed, is turned into a table. 

Here, I’ve tried naturally blue wine colored with Saperavi grape skin. It has quite an unusual look and taste if you are up for something different.

Wine Code also offers wine tasting of four wines and high-spirited alcohol, costing 35 GEL (reservations are required). And besides the tasting, you can sit at their bar restaurant and pair your wine with a range of platters or Georgian meals.

8000 Vintages

8000 Vintages brings a wide selection of Georgian wine from big and small enterprises. The knowledgeable and friendly staff is always happy to recommend wines based on your preferences and provide insights into Georgian winemaking traditions. 

The wine bar also offers a variety of delicious food platters, from cheese and charcuterie boards to traditional Georgian snacks. 

With four branches in Tbilisi, 8000 Vintages also offers on-demand wine-tasting sessions, where professional sommeliers help you discover Georgian wine.

Vino Underground

Opened by leading natural winemakers, Vino Underground was the first wine bar in Tbilisi to serve bio, organic artisanal Georgian wines that are not widely available elsewhere. 

This basement wine bar with exposed brick walls and dim lighting creates an intimate, relaxed atmosphere. 

Like many Tbilisi wine bars, Vino Underground also offers wine tastings, allowing visitors to learn more about the history and culture of Georgian winemaking. 

Craft beer bars in Tbilisi

Process Craft Beer Bar

This tiny craft beer bar on Kostava Street in front of the Stamba Hotel has a wide selection of local craft beer from Georgian beer companies. 

They have both bottled and draft beer choices with Georgian Lager, IPA, or APA. Their menu includes beers from NaturAle, Megobrebi, Underground, and Alkhanaidze breweries and their own draft beer, all written on a blackboard above the bar. 

If you are up for unique flavors, they offer tomato gose, taragon sour ale, wildberry sour, khinkali, and cherry ale, to name a few. Besides beer, they also have shots, chacha, and Georgian ciders.

Tsota Tsota Pub

Tsota Tsota in Sololaki neighborhood is another craft beer bar in Tbilisi worth checking out. “Tsota” in Georgian means “a little” and refers to the number or volume. 

The bar serves craft beer from Megobrebi Brewery. They have a few selections on draft, while others can be purchased bottled or canned. And if you want to try various types at once, they have a tasting plate, too. 

When unsure what to order, the friendly staff explains the flavors and pallets and helps you decide. You can even ask them for a small tasting before ordering the drink to see if you like it. 

Tsota Tsota also serves food that perfectly goes with beer, such as burgers, snacks, and sets for sharing.

Abragi

Abragi is a haven for beer enthusiasts dedicated to showcasing the best Georgian craft beer for those looking to explore the vibrant local brewing scene.

Located on Dadiani Street, a few minutes from Freedom Square, Abragi offers a wide range of bottled and draft Georgian craft beer – from crisp lagers to hoppy IPAs and rich stouts; there is a brew to suit every palate. Some of the draft beers I tried here were very new to me, and most are only available in Abragi.

The knowledgeable staff is always eager to share their expertise, guide you through a mini tasting of beers on tap, and even help you decide which beer to try based on your preferences. 

If you are into bottled beers, Abragi has an extensive selection of Georgian small craft breweries, including Megobrebi, Underground Brewery, Svia, Otia’s Ezo, Amphora Craft Beer, and NatureAle, to name just a few.  

2 Tons – Craft Beer and Brewery

2 Tons is a craft beer brewery and restaurant offering Georgian and European meals, snacks, and appetizers that go well with the beer.

With four branches, this restaurant serves a wide selection of high-quality craft beer in Tbilisi. While we didn’t have the best experience with food service at the Tabidze branch, we truly enjoyed their beer. That’s why I am still including it in this list. 

Try Vienna Street Lager, Prague tilted Czech Pilsner, Taj-Mahal IPA, Rio Haney Ale, Rome Imperial Stout, or Berlin Barley Lager.