The 95 Best Places in Georgia

The grounds here were designed by a gardener imported specifically from Versailles, which tells you everything about the ambitions of the Bagrationi royal family and nothing about how good the wine will be. It is both, as it turns out. A winery visit in the heart of Georgia's ancient vine country, Château Mukhrani sits on a named spot on the World's 50 Best Vineyards list, with 60,000 bottles aging in a restored labyrinth of cellars beneath a 19th-century palace.

A Soviet-era post and telegraph office on Rustaveli Avenue, reimagined by Neri&Hu as a 239-room design hotel with the bones of the original Brutalist structure still showing. The layout borrows from the regional caravanserai tradition, drawing people through public spaces rather than sending them to their rooms, which explains the nine bars and restaurants full of locals who have no intention of checking in.

A curved glass facade designed to mirror the surrounding cityscape announces this 220-room luxury hotel at the edge of Tbilisi's historic Old Town. Interiors by a Paris firm fold in traditional Georgian motifs, chokha-influenced geometric patterns, and work by local artists. Five restaurants, a spa, and a concierge who seems to know everyone round out a hotel that earns its keep whether you've come to Tbilisi once or many times before.

A publishing house turned hotel, where the old editorial bones still show through velvet throws, Persian rugs, and handmade wallpaper layered over wood-plank floors. The Bar Room pours traditional Georgian wines, the restaurant draws locals who treat it as their own, and the leather sofas by the fireplace make leaving feel irresponsible. Tbilisi's Old Town cobblestones are just outside, which is a good reason to stay somewhere comfortable. It holds a Michelin Key.

Trees grow through the five-story central atrium, which tells you this hotel is going for something. Stamba occupies a 1930s publishing house in Tbilisi, and the post-industrial bones, leather headboards, brass fixtures, and weathered textures have been left largely intact. The Pink Bar with its crystal chandelier and the café draw as many locals as guests, which is usually a good sign. It holds a Michelin Key.

This is a rooftop restaurant and bar at the top of Batumi's Sheraton, where the main attraction is the 360-degree panorama of the Black Sea, with a steak or a burger as the supporting act. The menu wanders from T-bone and marble beef to sushi and baked sea bass, so everyone at the table gets to be difficult. Expect hotel-guest prices, date-night energy, and a Gault&Millau rating of 3 Toques.

The menu here was adapted from a 19th-century cookbook by Georgian writer Barbare Jorjadze, which is either a charming origin story or the most elaborate way to do recipe research. Either way, this family-run restaurant in Tbilisi revives dishes that had largely disappeared, cooked from fresh local ingredients in a room full of lace tablecloths, vintage crockery, and soft lamplight. A Discovery pick from the World's 50 Best.

A towering pine tree anchors the garden courtyard behind the Writers' House of Georgia, which is the kind of setting that makes you feel you've wandered into someone's very literary backyard. Café Littera is a restaurant where the chef has spent years reworking traditional Georgian flavors into something distinctly contemporary, with a menu that rotates often enough to reward return visits. Sololaki's prettiest table, arguably.

REPUBLIC is a fine-dining seafood restaurant with a panoramic sweep of Tbilisi, in a room by the French design firm Gilles & Boissier that blends local and contemporary touches. The menu runs to oysters, lobster, king crab, and aged prime beef, so dress like you're expecting a bill. The summer terrace pairs classic cocktails with Tsinandali Estate wines. It holds 3 Toques from Gault&Millau.

Veriko is a sit-down restaurant in an old wine factory in Tbilisi's Vere district, where the dining room doubles as an art gallery and a portrait of Veriko herself keeps an eye on your khinkali technique. The kitchen cooks Georgian classics with local produce, and the staff will happily explain the history of both the dishes and the wine. Gault&Millau gives it three toques. Expect to linger.

The rooftop glass-encased cocktail bar, looking out over the Mtkvari River and the old city's jumble of rooftops, is reason enough to book. This polished international chain hotel sits at the foot of the Dry Bridge antiques market, with a spa, indoor pool, and rooms done in pale parquet and floor-to-ceiling windows. It's the most contemporary sleep in a city that otherwise skews boutique and atmospheric, which is either a relief or a tradeoff, depending on your mood.

A beautifully restored heritage building in Tbilisi's historic district holds this boutique hotel, where the bones are old and the interior very much isn't. Rooms on the upper floors go hard on saturated orange and midnight blue; lower floors stay warmer and a little less theatrical. The in-house offerings are modest, but the staff fills that gap by knowing everyone in town. The Michelin Guide has it among its selected hotels.

A full-scale hotel on Petre Melikishvili Street that leans hard into Georgian theatrical history, with a retro-futuristic design palette running somewhere between a Soviet-era stage set and a sharp modern renovation. Across ten floors and 118 rooms, the look is consistent: warm, a little dramatic, and clearly intentional. A spa, a brasserie, and two bars round things out. The Michelin Guide has it among its selected hotels.

The bar is also the front desk, which tells you everything about a Moxy stay. This Tbilisi outpost follows the chain's playbook of industrial-chic styling, neon accents, and enough quirky objects to keep you looking, while the rooms dial things back to clean lines and calm colors. A 24-hour lobby snack station and an on-site pastry shop handle the before and after. Good for travelers who find lobbies boring and check-in formalities even more so.

One of only two surviving caravanserais in Tbilisi, this red-brick hotel with its Moorish facade sits in the old city, which means the history is doing a lot of the decorating. Inside, the restoration goes industrial-chic: a courtyard lobby with keyhole arches, dramatic lighting, and moody corridors leading to modern rooms with leather headboards and, in some cases, freestanding tubs and wraparound balconies. The restaurant has live music every night.

The facade alone stops people mid-stride: a sharp, ultra-modern statement that the name "Design Hotel" does not fully prepare you for. Rooms pull back from the drama outside, leaning instead on local craft and warm Georgian touches. A neo-bistro, a speakeasy bar, a garden restaurant, and an in-house coffee roastery round out the picture. Tbilisi's boutique hotel scene has been quietly ambitious, and this one fits that pattern.

A boutique hotel on one of Tbilisi's liveliest avenues, Unfound Door occupies an old building that sat untouched for decades before its current owners spent two years coaxing it back to life. The 13 rooms are all different from one another, period details intact but paired with proper modern comforts. The kind of place where the architecture does the talking, which is fortunate, because it has a lot to say.

Alubali means "cherry" in Georgian, and the cafe is built around the idea of a grandmother's village yard, complete with fruit trees, plain wooden furniture, and enough fairy lights to guide a plane in. The owners toured the countryside quizzing older locals on how the old dishes were made, and the menu is traditional Georgian cooking, homey and generous. Gault&Millau gives it 2 Toques, and the cherry cake is the move at the end of a long lunch.

ATI is a hotel-restaurant on the 10th floor of the Sheraton, which means a view of Tbilisi's old town and the quiet confidence of a place that knows you'll look at it between courses. The kitchen runs a modern Georgian grill with a Silk Road streak, and the cocktails are taken as seriously as the fire. Gault&Millau gave it two toques. Expect a polished room with some art on the walls, where a jacket wouldn't hurt.

Bina 37 is a Georgian restaurant on the 8th floor of an apartment block, where the owner keeps 43 qvevri of homemade natural wine out on the terrace. It's a home-style setup in the best sense: traditional dishes, a steady flow of that wine, and a host whose philosophy is that a guest is a gift from God. It holds two Gault&Millau toques, which seems like a lot of recognition for something above a stairwell.

Bioli Hall is an event hall that also serves dinner, which is a combination that usually ends badly and here somehow comes with a nutritionist. The "Georgian Wellness" menu takes the old flavors and cooks them the healthy way, with produce from the Bioli farm and wellness guests getting dishes matched to their medical diagnosis. It holds 2 Toques from Gault&Millau, and yes, the khachapuri has been to a doctor.

Café Gabriadze is an old-town Tbilisi café where the interior, down to the furniture, was designed by the puppet theater director who built the crooked Clock Tower across the way. The summer terrace looks straight at it, so every table gets a view of a sight everyone else is photographing. The menu runs through regional Georgian starters and char-grilled meats, with qvevri wines and house spirits at the bar. It holds 2 Toques from Gault&Millau.

Cafe Stamba is a big all-day cafe in a converted warehouse, where tall windows let passersby watch you eat your khachapuri like a nature documentary in reverse. The hall splits into two small drinking corners and a large dining zone built around an open kitchen with a live fire, so dinner comes with sizzling as the soundtrack. The menu leans Georgian with a fusion streak, and it holds two Gault&Millau toques.

Clouds sits on the 19th floor in Batumi, which means the sea view is doing roughly half the work before anyone orders. It's a trendy bar-restaurant with grilled dishes, international and Asian plates, and cocktails that arrive fully mixed. Weekends bring live bands and DJs, so go expecting a night out with friends, not a quiet dinner. Gault&Millau gives it 2 Toques, in case you were wondering about the cooking.

This is the hotel restaurant at the Crowne Plaza in Borjomi, a mountain spa town of Gothic Eclectic buildings and small bridges over the Mtkvari. The menu pairs Georgian and European dishes in a calm, cozy dining room, which suits a town where everyone arrives to sip mineral water and be gently restored. Mushroom soup with truffle, beef fillet, and salmon anchor an evening here. Gault&Millau gives it 2 Toques.

Georgian House is a sit-down restaurant in Tbilisi where the menu runs through every region of Georgia and then wanders off into European territory, like it couldn't decide which cousin to invite. The decor and the music play the same old-meets-new game, so expect a tablecloth kind of evening, not a standing-at-the-counter one. Gault&Millau gave it 2 Toques, and the staff greet you like the table was already yours.

Keto and Kote are Georgia's answer to a famous pair, a couple from literature and cinema so tied together that the restaurant named after them makes the same promise. It's a traditional Georgian restaurant with a garden terrace and Tbilisi laid out below. Expect khinkali wearing pesto and meat in Roquefort sauce, which the old Georgian grandmothers would call a bold move. Gault&Millau gives it 2 Toques.

Lolita is a cocktail bar with a kitchen in Tbilisi's Vera district, tucked into an old building with red neon and an open kitchen where your mac and cheese or lasagna gets assembled in front of you. It has nothing to do with Nabokov, which is probably for the best. The garden out back hides you behind bushes while the street goes by, and weekend nights fill up fast. Gault&Millau gave it 2 Toques.

Palaty is a Georgian restaurant in an old Imereti-style house near Kutaisi's white bridge, where the name means a house with a limestone ground floor. Downstairs is dim and romantic with live jazz, upstairs is bright and calm, and there's a flowered terrace and a small yard for anyone who can't decide. A wine bar and cooking classes round it out, and Gault&Millau gave it two toques.

Royal Cellar 1878 is the restaurant at Chateau Mukhrani, a white castle in wine country that French architects designed for a noble family and that looks like it was built to be photographed. The cooking runs from traditional Georgian to modern takes on it, and the wine comes from the estate, so the sommelier's commute is a staircase. Expect a dressed-up lunch, ideally with a cellar tour first. Gault&Millau gives it two toques.

Salobie BIA is a sit-down restaurant on Rustaveli Avenue built around the bean, which in Georgia is a bigger deal than it sounds. The kitchen digs up older dishes too, including a millet-based one from before beans took over the national diet, so it's a bit like eating the sequel and the original in one sitting. The room is plain and calm, and the white plum sorbet with white chocolate is what dessert people mention. Gault&Millau gives it 2 Toques.

This is the restaurant at a winery estate in Kakheti, where the vineyards run in tidy rows toward the Caucasus and you eat Georgian classics with the mountains as a backdrop. Take the table by the fireplace in cooler months, or the balcony when it's warm. Expect a long, unhurried lunch, a wine list that happens to be written by the neighbors, and Gault&Millau's 2 Toques on the record.

Shushabandi is a fine dining room in central Tbilisi doing modern Georgian cooking, which means the khachapuri has been to finishing school. It holds two Gault&Millau toques, and the staff manage to keep the place feeling cozy rather than stiff. Call ahead for a table, since plenty of other people have the same idea, and bring some patience, because the kitchen takes its time. Dress like you mean it.

The Alphabet Tower is a restaurant up in Batumi's skyline-defining spire, where the Georgian alphabet is wrapped around the outside like a very tall, very literate DNA strand. The panorama of beach, port, and Black Sea is the main attraction, and it's priced with that in mind. The menu leans on familiar international dishes rather than local ones, and the room suits couples and anyone who wants to be nice to a visitor. Gault&Millau gives it two toques.

Tiffany Bar & Terrace is a restaurant and cocktail lounge in Tbilisi where the terrace looks out over Mtatsminda and the old town, which is the real draw once the sun starts dropping. The kitchen mixes Georgian and European dishes, leaning toward seafood, and the bar takes its mixology seriously. It's a dressed-up, see-and-be-seen kind of room, with Gault&Millau's two toques on the wall and waffles for dessert.

A Negroni trolley in the lobby sets the tone: this is a boutique hotel that has opinions. Tucked into Sololaki, an old neighborhood of restaurants and live music with bones from its 19th-century heyday, the restored townhouse fills its rooms with jewel-toned walls and a roving collection of Art Nouveau to mid-century furniture. Breakfast comes around a communal table, or to your room if you're not feeling social.

The rooftop terrace is the real reason to book here, a perch for Georgian wine with the old city spread out below. This modern hotel sits a short walk from Metekhi Cathedral and the famous sulfur baths, which puts it ahead of most of the crumbling-charm competition nearby. Rooms run bright and contemporary, with parquet floors and jewel-toned accents, and there's a working fitness center, a detail that sounds minor until you try finding one in Old Tbilisi.

One suite has a glass floor suspended over the Mtkvari River, which sets the bar early for this boutique hotel in Old Tbilisi. The building dates from the 19th century, and the design layers Moorish archways, Art Deco headboards, and geometric tilework into something that makes Silk Road crossroads feel less like a history lesson and more like a mood. Every room has a balcony, breakfast is traditionally Georgian, and the rooftop looks out over the hills.

A 14-room boutique hotel occupying an antique townhouse in Chugureti, the kind of creative neighborhood where the coffee shops have opinions. Communal Plekhanovi mixes period architecture and classic fixtures with a boldly graphic color sense, and no two rooms look alike, though somehow it all coheres. Breakfast is a proper spread of Georgian cooking, and the bar and terrace keep things social. The Michelin Guide has it among its selected hotels.

A boutique hotel in Avlabari, steps from the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Khedi splits its 57 rooms and suites between two distinct moods: one vivid with a modern take on Georgian tradition, the other cooler and more spare. The Ginza Project, known in Russia for serviced apartments, made this its first hotel outside that world, and the difference shows in how seriously the restaurant is taken, with a well-regarded local chef running the kitchen.

Scalloped velvet headboards and botanical print throws make clear that the design team had strong opinions, and the 35 rooms lean into bold, shifting palettes rather than the usual neutral boutique hotel hedge. Some rooms look over the Mtkvari River, others onto the garden. The restaurant pulls from seasonal Georgian ingredients with international touches. Narikala fortress, the sulfur baths, and the old bazaar are all walkable, which does a lot of the work for you.

Floors 19 to 35 of Tbilisi's tallest building, in the upscale Vake district, with floor-to-ceiling glass turning city sprawl into wallpaper you never picked. This full-service hotel keeps a French restaurant and a sky bar on the 36th floor, a pool with an opening roof, and a spa on hand, so you can feel very high up in multiple senses. The Michelin Guide includes it among its selected hotels.

Georgia's Kakheti region has been making wine longer than most of Europe has had a civilization, and the Tsinandali Estate sits right in the middle of it. The Radisson Collection hotel is a modern, boutique-luxury property that earns a Michelin Key, its contemporary interiors nodding gently to the 19th-century estate around them. An infinity pool, a spa, and three in-house venues, including a wine bar pouring the estate's own vintages, round out the picture.

Sixty hectares of Kakheti countryside, tucked between the Caucasus Mountains and a quiet lake, with forest trails, vineyards, and over 200 rooms spreading out from what started as a small guesthouse. Lopota Lake Resort holds a Michelin Key. Horses, spa, estate wine from Château Buera, and vegetables that seem to have traveled about thirty feet before reaching the table. The scale could feel anonymous; somehow it doesn't.

A short drive from Tbilisi into the Kojori hills, this wellness resort hides behind a grass-covered sloping roof and a wall of native forest. Bungalows rise on stilts among the trees with floor-to-ceiling windows and private rooftop terraces; the chalets add a second level, lake views, and deck Jacuzzis. The spa handles detox programs and massage, but the forest walk and a glass of organic wine by the fireplace do roughly the same job.

Victorian antique furniture, sourced from England, fills the 19 rooms and suites of this restored 19th-century estate in the Kakheti wine region. The parkland rolls into working vineyards where grapes are fermented using the ancient qvevri method, and those wines pour at dinner alongside creative Georgian cooking built largely from the estate's own garden. It holds a Michelin Key, and feels like a Georgia most visitors never find.

Adjarian Wine House sits fifteen minutes inland from the Black Sea, a wine-cellar-and-banquet-table restaurant where Georgian cooking arrives in quantities that assume you brought a large family. The setting does most of the talking, and the hand-rolled Georgian tobacco is there if you'd like to take the afternoon seriously. It holds a Gault&Millau toque, and summer weekends fill up, so book ahead.

Be Chic is a European restaurant in Tbilisi Sea New City, and it has the sharp, polished interior its name promises. It holds one Gault&Millau toque. The room is built for a long lunch with friends, the kind where conversation runs louder than the music and the service moves fast enough to keep up. The menu leans on steak in pepper sauce and a few eastern-leaning chicken dishes, so plan on dressing a notch above beach casual.

Brasserie Buvette is a French-leaning European restaurant on Gudiashvili Street, a block that already does a fair amount of the romance work for you. The room goes for gala, with enough polish that jeans feel like a decision. The menu runs on brasserie classics like a Chateaubriand with bordelaise and a roast chicken with Romesco, in a city better known for khachapuri. It holds one Gault&Millau toque.

Ghumeli is a modern Georgian restaurant on the top floor of a Tbilisi hotel, built around a stone oven in the middle of the dining room, so dinner doubles as a cooking demonstration you didn't ask for. Khachapuri and khinkali show up in reworked shapes that would confuse a grandmother and probably delight her. In warm weather the roof rolls back over views of Old Tbilisi. It holds one Gault&Millau toque.

HOME 11 is a family-run Georgian restaurant on pedestrian Tabidze Street in Sololaki, a short walk from Freedom Square. The cooking stays close to what a Georgian grandmother would recognize, just plated with more composure than she'd bother with. The wine list leans heavily on qvevri bottles from small producers, so it pays to ask the staff before pointing. It holds one Gault&Millau toque, and the room is calm enough to hear yourself deliberate.

This Tbilisi restaurant takes its name from kharcho, the walnut-heavy meat stew that every cook in western Georgia insists is made correctly only in their own kitchen. The menu follows the traditional route with a few European tweaks, so expect cheese rolls, veal ribs, and dolma in vine leaves rather than anything foamed. It holds a Gault&Millau toque, and the dining room is tidy enough for a proper dinner without requiring a jacket.

Munich is a restaurant in a 19th-century building in old Batumi, where a church, a mosque, and a synagogue all share the neighborhood, which is more diplomacy than most cities manage. There's a green yard and terrace, retro interiors, German beer, and a seafood-and-sauces menu. Screens cover every corner, so football fans eat well, and it holds a Gault&Millau toque.

Old Town is a Georgian restaurant in Tbilisi built around a garden terrace, where rose bushes and assorted greenery do most of the scenery work. The menu runs through the national greatest hits, with a barbecue streak for anyone who came to watch things get grilled. It carries a Gault&Millau toque, and the chef's stated method is cooking with the heart instead of the hands, which is a lot to ask of a heart, but the kitchen seems committed.

This is the dining room of a five-star hotel in Old Tbilisi, so expect tablecloths, a sommelier, and furniture by an Italian maker who clearly doesn't believe in understatement. The kitchen is Italian but keeps one eye on Georgian cooking, reviving old dishes and giving them new outfits. It holds one Gault&Millau toque, and it draws a mix of hotel guests and locals dressed for something nicer than khachapuri.

Sirajkhana is a Tbilisi restaurant built around the idea that Georgian and Persian cooking were always meant to share a table, and the owners did their homework in old newspapers and with wine historians to prove it. Expect a menu designed for passing plates around a big group, a serious wine list, and a one-toque nod from Gault&Millau. It's a dinner with homework behind it, though the homework is edible.

Strada Café is a casual all-day cafe on Marjanishvili Street, part of a small chain started by a team of chefs from New York, London, and Moscow, which explains the pancakes at breakfast and the pasta at dinner. Prices stay low, the plants are everywhere, and the wine list is longer than a cafe strictly needs. It holds a Gault&Millau toque, and the warm cherry pie is the dessert people bring up unprompted.

Tabla Saloon is a Georgian restaurant dressed up like a grand old salon, the kind of place where the table gets its name from a word that once meant "wooden board." Expect fresh-baked tone bread, songs, folk dances, and a sommelier on hand for the wine shop tucked inside, which stocks about 250 Georgian bottles. Families and business types fill it, and Gault&Millau gives it one toque.

Terrassa Askaneli is a Batumi restaurant from the family whose chacha, brandy, and pitcher wines have quietly made it onto shelves in dozens of countries, so the house pours come with some pedigree. It has three separate dining spaces, each with its own mood, and a menu that wanders between Georgian staples and the wider world. Live music nights and wine-tasting classes fill the calendar. Gault&Millau gives it one toque.

A 19th-century townhouse in Kutaisi's old quarter, with Symbolist poetry stenciled on the walls and photographs of local playwrights keeping watch from the hallways. Each room follows the original floor plan and comes stuffed with antiques, including one with a clawfoot tub under a frieze of Jason himself. The Doli restaurant runs a traditional clay oven for Western Georgian cooking. A boutique hotel that wears its city's mythology lightly, which is harder than it sounds.

Moorish archways and hand-painted tiles survived the renovation of this historic villa in Georgia's wine country, and the team behind Communal's Tbilisi boutique hotels built around them rather than over them. The philosophy is communal in practice: a shared breakfast table, a poolside bar, an all-day spot for local food and natural wines. Rooms go full eclectic, with emerald accent walls, velvet daybeds, and handwoven rugs. The vineyards start just outside town.

A 375-foot saltwater pool cantilevered over the Black Sea sets the tone at this sprawling resort on Georgia's Black Sea coast, where the lobby also runs a walk-through aquarium because apparently the view wasn't enough. Rooms are light and wide, with private balconies and deep soaking tubs. An indoor waterpark, tennis courts, and a winter garden keep families occupied, while the spa handles the other half of the equation.

A hotel in Georgia's Kakheti wine region where the rooms come dressed in rich wood tones and vintage-inspired furniture, so the whole place reads like a well-heeled guesthouse that also happens to have three bars, one of them devoted entirely to local wine. Two restaurants serve Georgian food, a tea lounge overlooks the vineyards, and the spa and pools handle the afternoons. The Michelin Guide selects it among its hotels.

A wooden lodge dwarfed by snow-capped Caucasus peaks, this hotel in remote northern Georgia looks like a film set and knows it. The rustic-chic interior runs to floor-to-ceiling windows, leather sofas, vintage carpets, and a fireplace reliably surrounded by Georgian wine. Guest rooms stay deliberately spare, with private balconies facing the mountains, so the view does the heavy lifting. The terrace, the library, and the indoor pool all earn their keep between hikes.

This is a casual barbecue spot in Tbilisi's old town, built around a Josper, the charcoal oven that cooks steak at a temperature most home grills only dream about. It's a quiet challenge to the Georgian tradition of Kakhetian shashlik, in a neighborhood where the shashlik is not exactly hard to find. The produce is organic and so are the Georgian wines. Gault&Millau lists it as a Selected Restaurant, and you get to choose your doneness.

Puri Guliani is a Georgian bakery with a full kitchen attached, which means the bread and the khachapuri-adjacent breakfasts share a roof and a very open view. You can watch the whole operation from your table, so nobody can claim the dough is a mystery. It's one of the few places in Tbilisi that takes Sunday brunch seriously, and locals and visitors fill it up in roughly equal measure. Gault&Millau lists it as a Selected Restaurant.