What is Fabrika in Tbilisi's Chugureti district?

Fabrika, at Egnate Ninoshvili Street 8, is a Soviet sewing factory converted into a hostel, co-working space and courtyard of bars, cafés, studios and shops. It opened in July 2016. Moulin Electrique is open in the courtyard until 01:00, and Satatsuri café sits just outside.

How do you get to Aghmashenebeli Avenue in Tbilisi?

Take the metro to Marjanishvili, one of the original stations opened in 1966, and walk onto Davit Aghmashenebeli Avenue. The avenue was rehabilitated and reopened in November 2011, and Slow Tbilisi at number 36 has a patio on its pedestrianized stretch.

Which cafés near Marjanishvili in Tbilisi stay open late?

Coffeeshop Company on Marjanishvili Street serves until 02:00 from Monday to Saturday. In the Fabrika courtyard, Moulin Electrique is open until 01:00, as is Liel on Aghmashenebeli Avenue, and Puri Guliani on Saarbrücken Square stays open until midnight.

Cafés in Marjanishvili & Chugureti, Tbilisi: Hours and Map

Chugureti lies on the left bank of the Mtkvari, between Avlabari to the south and Didube to the north, and it holds the city's main railway station.¹ Its name comes from the Turkic chughur, a pit or deep hollow; a village called Chukhuri appears in a charter of 1707, and it joined the city in 1824.² German colonies founded in the first quarter of the 19th century did much to shape it.¹

Alexanderdorf, a colony of settlers from Württemberg founded in 1818, lined both sides of the road that is now Davit Aghmashenebeli Avenue. Its Lutheran church of 1820 stood on today's Marjanishvili Square until Soviet authorities had German prisoners of war demolish it in 1946–47.³ The avenue was renamed for King David the Builder in 1988 and reopened after rehabilitation on 23 November 2011.³

Local tip: Order a halva Raf at Puri Guliani on Saarbrücken Square and take it out to the patio over the river.¹⁰

Marjanishvili Square

Marjanishvili station opened on 11 January 1966 as one of the metro's first six stations, and its escalator is the oldest in the system.⁴ The square is named after Kote Marjanishvili, whose theater moved here from Kutaisi in 1930 into the Art Nouveau Zubalov People's House; it reopened after renovation in 2006 with The Threepenny Opera.⁵

Coffeeshop Company at Marjanishvili Street 5 serves from 08:30 to 02:00, Monday to Saturday. TBC Bank's cafeteria at number 7 sits in a 1912 building that was the Central Department Store from 1934 to 2002.⁶

Fabrika and Ninoshvili Street

Fabrika, at Egnate Ninoshvili 8, is a Soviet sewing factory turned into a hostel, co-working space and courtyard of bars, studios and shops; Moulin Electrique and Tone, a restaurant that bakes Georgian bread on site, are among its tenants.⁷ It opened in July 2016, after standing abandoned since the 1990s.⁸ Moulin Electrique is open 10:30–01:00 and Cityhikers 09:30–20:00.

Just outside, Satatsuri fills the former ground-floor apartment of Eka Janashia's family, with brick walls and wooden floors.⁹ Shavi has a branch at Ninoshvili 17, and Tsvari Roasters opened at number 64 in late 2025, with windows over padel courts near the Ninoshvili bazaar.⁶

Along Aghmashenebeli Avenue

Slow Tbilisi took over the café at Aghmashenebeli 36 in August 2025, on the ground floor of the Chavchanidze House of 1903, with a patio on the pedestrianized avenue; by night it pours natural Georgian wine.⁶ Corner House Coffee at number 109, run by the NGO Caucasus Culture Exchange, has a balcony, plenty of sockets and a small art gallery upstairs.⁶

Amo Rame at number 68 stays open until midnight, and Liel at 86/1 until 01:00. The painter Niko Pirosmani spent his last days nearby, in what is now a museum flat at Pirosmani Street 29.¹

Saarbrücken Square and the Dry Bridge

Puri Guliani's main café faces Saarbrücken Square, near the Dry Bridge market, with a three-group Slayer and a large patio over the Mtkvari that stays busy late.¹⁰ It is open 09:00 to midnight.

The Dry Bridge market has run in its present form since the 1950s; more than a hundred vendors sell Soviet medals, enamel, silver and old radios there every day, and local artists show paintings in the park nearby.¹¹

Cafés in Marjanishvili & Chugureti

At a glance

Anxious & Tired

Blanc

Cavis

Hats and Coffee

Liel

ასტერები

ბრევიო

ბულბული

დრო

ენთუზიასტები

თი თაიმ

ლითლ ბითლი

მაიჩა

პრო ბარისტა

პური გულიანი

რიტუალსი

სლინკ კაფე

სლოუ

ქართლური სიხარული

ყავა ლაირი

Cityhikers

Sapore

ამო რამე

მულენ ელექტრიკი

Aleksandrette cafe

Cafe Lava Story

Cafe Melissa

Cafe Valentina

Coffee Space Tbilisi

Ice Pack Tbilisi

Pancholi-na

SOSA Artisanal Cafe & Bakery

Suro

Teorema

ანტიზონა

არტ კაფე

Coffee chains in Marjanishvili & Chugureti

Entrée

Shavi Coffee Roasters

Canape

Coffeeshop Company

Marjanishvili Square

Fabrika and Ninoshvili Street

Along Aghmashenebeli Avenue

Saarbrücken Square and the Dry Bridge

Sources

More of Tbilisi

Old Tbilisi & Sololaki

Rustaveli & Mtatsminda

Vera

Vake

Saburtalo

Avlabari

Marjanishvili & Chugureti cafés: questions

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