Best Anniversary Restaurants in Tbilisi (2026)
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The anniversary pick in Tbilisi for 2026 is Cafe Littera, Tekuna Gachechiladze’s garden room at the Writers’ House. Editorial runners-up: Keto and Kote, Barbarestan, ATI, Azarpesha.
Twenty-nine Tbilisi rooms sit in our directory. Six earn an anniversary. The list opens in the garden of the Writers’ House and climbs to a tenth-floor terrace over the old town.
Six Tbilisi Tables for an Anniversary
The shrimp kharcho is Tbilisi’s best plate. Tekuna Gachechiladze trained in New York, then came home to cook the Georgian canon lighter. The room is the garden of the 1905 Sarajashvili mansion at 13 Ivane Machabeli Street, behind the Writers’ House. Old trees, strung lights, mussels chakapuli. Around ₾80 to ₾120 a head. The garden anniversary, and the most romantic table in the city.
Carved wooden balconies, painted deep green, low ceilings that hold candlelight. Keto and Kote takes its name from a 19th-century Georgian opera and fills a townhouse of the same era at 3 Mikheil Zandukeli Dead End in Vera. The khinkali are faultless; the cellar runs deep. Around ₾80 to ₾130 a head. The candlelit anniversary.
The menu comes from an 1874 cookbook found in a flea-market box — 807 recipes by Barbare Jorjadze, Georgia’s first female cookbook author. Levan Kobiashvili cooks them at Aghmashenebeli Avenue 132. On the World’s 50 Best Discovery list. Mains ₾28 to ₾48, near ₾90 to ₾130 a head with wine. The anniversary with a story to tell over dinner.
The tenth-floor terrace looks across the Mtkvari to the old town and the Narikala fortress at sunset. ATI sits atop the Sheraton Grand Metechi Palace in Avlabari, opened under George Ninua and now led by Arthur Linkevich. Adjaruli khachapuri, lighter dolma, mains ₾35 to ₾70. Listed by Gault&Millau Georgia. The view anniversary.
A wall of silver wine ladles, two streets from Freedom Square. Luarsab Togonidze opened Azarpesha in 2013 with John Wurdeman of Pheasant’s Tears, the cellar that revived Georgia’s qvevri wine. Nettle pilaf, meatballs in sorrel sauce, mains ₾30 to ₾50. 2 Pavle Ingorokva Street. The intimate natural-wine anniversary.
Imeretian khachapuri and khinkali, eaten with the whole of Tbilisi laid out below. The Funicular Restaurant sits at the top of the Mtatsminda railway, on the ridge above the city. The setting is the point; dishes run ₾20 to ₾55, most diners near ₾60 to ₾100 a head. Ride the 1905 funicular up at dusk. The grand-view anniversary.
How to Book
Cafe Littera and Barbarestan are the hard tables; book one to two weeks ahead, more on a weekend. Cafe Littera runs as a garden room through the warm season — call ahead in the colder months, when it closes. Keto and Kote, ATI and Azarpesha want a few days. The Funicular Restaurant seats most couples on shorter notice.
Sunset. Book ATI’s terrace or the Funicular Restaurant for the light over the old town, and time the Mtatsminda ride up for dusk. At Cafe Littera, ask for a table under the old trees in the garden.
Frequently Asked Questions
The editorial pick for 2026 is Cafe Littera, Tekuna Gachechiladze’s garden room in the courtyard of the 1905 Writers’ House, the most romantic table in the city through the warm season. For a candlelit room year-round, Keto and Kote’s 19th-century opera-house townhouse in Vera and Barbarestan’s 1874-cookbook menu both suit a milestone.
Cafe Littera is the most romantic table in Tbilisi: a garden of old trees and strung lights behind the Writers’ House in Sololaki, with mussels chakapuli and the city’s best shrimp kharcho. Keto and Kote runs a close second, all carved balconies and candlelight inside a green 19th-century townhouse in Vera.
An anniversary dinner in Tbilisi runs around ₾80 to ₾130 a head with wine at the top tables — Cafe Littera, Keto and Kote and Barbarestan. ATI’s mains are ₾35 to ₾70, Azarpesha’s ₾30 to ₾50, and the Funicular Restaurant lands near ₾60 to ₾100 a head. Tbilisi stays a relative bargain against most European capitals.
For an anniversary with a view, ATI’s tenth-floor terrace atop the Sheraton Grand Metechi Palace in Avlabari faces the Narikala fortress and the old town across the Mtkvari, and the Funicular Restaurant on the Mtatsminda ridge looks over the whole city. Ride the 1905 funicular up at dusk and time dinner for sunset.
Book Cafe Littera and Barbarestan one to two weeks ahead, and earlier for a weekend; they are the city’s hardest tables. Cafe Littera closes in the colder months, so confirm the garden is open. Keto and Kote, ATI and Azarpesha usually want only a few days, and the Funicular Restaurant seats couples on shorter notice.