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12 Rue Chardin
The best place for a proper meal on the Sharpen strip, with a mainly European menu and ambience, and French wine.
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Ankara
A short stretch of this busy street looks like it has been transplanted from Turkey, with Turkish restaurants, Turkish businesses and even a Turkish hotel. The Ankara is a modern, clean, air-conditioned restaurant done out in pink and white, where you can get plenty of good salad and sweets as well as kebabs and other meaty dishes.
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Cafe Nikala
A bright self-service place with dependable salads, rice and meat dishes, khachapuri and cakes - a far cry from the dreary self-service canteens of Soviet times.
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Caravan
Interesting lounge-style restaurant/café with an east-meets-west literary ambience. Eclectic and well-prepared food - from Uzbek plov to French steak or Norwegian salmon - is served at low tables with cushioned benches in a relaxed space amid kilims, hookahs and assorted prints and posters of writers.
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China Town
Colourful and consistently popular, China Town serves authentic Chinese dishes including tofu combinations and plenty of other options for vegetarians. There are meat dishes on offer too.
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Chocolate
Excellent little café serving baklava and other Turkish sweets, khachapuri and good coffee.
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Csaba's Jazz-Rock Café
Anyone curious about what to expect from a Hungarian-Georgian restaurant will be pleasantly surprised by the excellent salads and meat dishes in this friendly little establishment with a wooden interior. Most nights live jazz or rock is an enjoyable accompaniment from to .
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Dzveli Metekhi
Across the Metekhi Bridge from the Old Town proper, this understandably popular place attached to the Hotel Old Metekhi has sought-after balcony tables with superb views over the Old Town. The food is excellent Georgian and international fare, plus there's a good wine list. Live music most nights.
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Dzveli Sakhli
Down by the river, the expansive 'Old House' is one of the best places in town, serving authentic dishes - with a twist - from all over Georgia. There's often excellent Georgian music and dancing in the main dining hall, which has long banquet tables, ideal for small groups with time to enjoy a full evening. If you fancy a quieter meal, choose the partly open-air riverside hall. Service isn't rapid but the food is worth a wait. You can order wine by the jug.
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El Depo
One of the most central branches of this popular khinkali chain - a good place to enjoy this Georgian staple, with rustic wooden tables and other traditional decor. Does good lobio too.
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Hotel Kopala
Also on the Metekhi side of the river, the restaurant of the Hotel Kopala has one of the best views in the city (across the river to the Old Town) and a fairly tranquil ambience. It serves some of the best Georgian food and a good range of wines too.
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Il Garage
Sardinian chefs whip up yummy concoctions of fresh pasta at this minimalist Vake haunt facing the so-called Mrgvani Baghi (Circle Garden). Eat inside or surrounded by greenery patio.
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Kafe Literaturuli
The Literary Café is a great stop near the Philharmonia for tea, coffee and sweet snacks. One branch of a small chain, it's calm and informal, with neat modern design and a mildly trendy, artsy atmosphere.
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Kafe Lotus
This vegetarian canteen is one of the best places for lunch on the run in Tbilisi. It's cheap, cheerful and delicious, and the menu includes vegetarian versions of traditional Georgian meat dishes and oriental fare.
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La Brasserie
The Marriott Courtyard's not-too-formal restaurant is just the place if you feel like a truly enormous buffet breakfast. Wi-fi available too.
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Prestige
This fairly standard beer bar has a leafy back garden where it's nice to sit out over a mtsvadi (shashlyk) or a khachapuri on a summer evening.
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Puris Sakhli
A short walk from the sulphur baths, Puris Sakhli (Bread House) is one of Tbilisi's most popular and lively spots for a meal. The menu is in English as well as Georgian and a huge feast for two is unlikely to be more than L40 .
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Sachashnike
Straightforward and excellent-value place convenient for the Marjanishvili homestays. You can get khinkali for L0.40 each, pork mtsvadi for L4 and a carafe of Georgian wine for L3 .
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Sans Souci
This quirkily attractive little restaurant makes a great place for lunch or dinner. It offers friendly service and a view of both the Anchiskhati Basilica and the Hangar sports bar. The food is Georgian with original twists - try the leek hors d'oeuvre for starters.
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Shemoikhede Genatsvale
The name means 'Drop in, Love' and this restaurant enacts that invitation with terrific Georgian food in a fun, old-fashioned, but not overwhelming tavern ambience, with good service. Spot it by the Pirosmani painting of three men and a dog displayed outside. The house speciality is the excellent khinkali (with potato- or mushroom-stuffed varieties as well as meat) but there are very good mtsvadi (meat kebabs) and chkmeruli (sizzling chicken in garlic sauce). Wash it all down with draft beer or good house wine. The menu is in Georgian only, but some staff speak English.
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Shemoikhede Genatsvale, Old Town
Neat, modern and less atmospheric than the other Shemoikhede Genatsvale, but with the same excellent Georgian food and efficient service. Easiest identified by the Pirosmani painting on the street frontage of a dog and three men eating.
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Teremok
This cosy little restaurant in the style of an old Russian cottage specialises in scrumptious bliny, little round pancakes beloved of Russians and indeed most people who have ever tried them. You can enjoy them with mushrooms, meat, cream, jam, cheese, fruit or many other options. Other Russian and Ukrainian dishes are served too.
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Tokyo
This sleek Japanese place is one of Tbilisi's most stylish restaurants. The superb sushi is all prepared authentically, although it is pricey.
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