Meridian Table

Tbilisi, eaten weekly.

MERIDIAN TABLE

We live here. We pay for our own meals. We go back before we write. If a place is good we say exactly why, and if it is famous and bad we say that too.

Dispatches

  1. Aghmashenebeli Avenue, Four Stops, One Afternoon

    A walkable route that starts with natural wine and ends with bread worth missing a marshrutka for.

    MARJANISHVILI6 min

  2. Khachapuri Is Not One Food

    Four regions, four different arguments about cheese, and the tourist district loses all of them.

    CITYWIDE7 min

  3. Skip Fabrika. Here's Where the Locals Actually Drink

    The courtyard is a photo set. Three unmarked doors within fifteen minutes of it are not.

    CHUGURETI6 min

  4. The Dezerter Bazaar at 7 a.m., Before the Guides Wake Up

    Restaurant buyers clear the good produce by eight. Arrive before the churchkhela stalls open and shop with them.

    STATION SQUARE8 minComing next week

  5. Every Lobio in Sololaki, Ranked by a Man Who Regrets Nothing

    Eleven clay pots of beans in six days, and only four of them deserve your lari.

    SOLOLAKI9 minComing

  6. The Sulfur Bath Lunch Problem, Solved

    What to eat in Abanotubani when everything nearby is priced for people in towels.

    ABANOTUBANI5 minComing

Standing Reservations

One dispatch a month, by email only: closures before they're announced, the new places we're still testing, and the rankings a month before the site gets them.