Which café in Vake, Tbilisi, is open 24 hours?

Lui, at Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue 23–23a next to Mziuri park, is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It roasts its own coffee and has a children's play area. Its menu lists a small cappuccino at ₾8.90 and an espresso at ₾6.50.

What is Café Mziuri in Vake, Tbilisi?

Café Mziuri is a social café at Chavchavadze Avenue 23, by Mziuri park, which opened in 1982 on an idea of the writer Nodar Dumbadze. The café follows universal design principles, with a Braille menu and a corner for parents with babies, and serves only meat-free dishes on Mondays. It is open 10:00–22:00.

Where can you find specialty coffee in Vake, Tbilisi?

Coffee LAB has a branch at Zakaria Paliashvili Street 24, with booth seating, and Minimalist at Paliashvili 110 serves only manual brews, daily 09:00–22:00. Shavi Coffee Roasters has a branch in Bagebi, and Lui on Chavchavadze Avenue roasts its own beans and pours around the clock.

Cafés in Vake, Tbilisi: Hours and Map

Vake takes its name from a 19th-century word for a plain or flat place, and it was incorporated into Tbilisi in January 1906.¹ Intensive building began in the 1920s, and for a long time the neighborhood reached the center only along Melikishvili Street; in 1957 the lower Varaziskhevi ravine was filled in to link it with Heroes Square.¹ Today it is one of the city's largest residential areas, with universities and research institutes between the apartment blocks.¹

Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue is its spine: the old road to Tskneti, continuing Rustaveli and Melikishvili avenues and named after the writer.² Tbilisi State University, founded in 1918, has its main building at number 1, the former Nobility Gymnasium built between 1899 and 1906.²³ Mziuri park opens off the middle of the avenue and Vake Park off its western end.² The streets between them hold more cafés than any other part of Tbilisi.

Local tip: Climb the Vake Park staircase early, before the heat, then have breakfast at Lui on Chavchavadze Avenue, which is open around the clock.⁷

At a glance

98Cafés listed

45With opening hours

08:00Earliest opening

00:00Latest closing

Opens earliest: Day Off, from 08:00 (Daily 08:00–22:00).

Closes latest: ბუ' ნება 700, until 00:00 (Mon–Sat 08:00–00:00).

Most listed streets: Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue (4), Irakli Abashidze Street (2).

Most common features: open late (23%), outdoor seating (18%), wi-fi (17%).

Mziuri and Vake Park

Mziuri opened in 1982 in the valley of the Vere river, on an idea of the writer Nodar Dumbadze for a children's city in the middle of the capital; chaotic building in the 1990s cut the park down.⁴ Café Mziuri, the social café at Chavchavadze 23, is built on universal design principles, with a Braille menu, a corner for parents with babies and meat-free dishes every Monday.⁵ It is open 10:00–22:00 daily.

Vake Park opened in 1946 as Victory Park. A wide staircase climbs from Chavchavadze Avenue past a cascade of fountains to the Second World War memorial on the ridge, and the paths are laid with red sand.⁶ The park has its own cafés and restaurants and an open-air cinema, and the Mikheil Meskhi Stadium closes its southwestern end.⁶

Lui and the avenue

Next to Mziuri, Lui at Chavchavadze 23–23a is open 24 hours, seven days a week, and has a children's play area.⁷ It roasts its coffee in-house.¹⁵ Its menu lists a small cappuccino at ₾8.90, an espresso at ₾6.50 and shakshuka at ₾17.90.⁸

Further along, Stories at 14/16 stays open until 22:00 and The Little at 27/29 until 23:00, with tables outside, while Caffeine by WorkIn at number 47 serves 09:00–21:00 with Wi-Fi. Bubble tea has a foothold here too, with MAO at number 26 and My Boba at number 7.

Abashidze and Paliashvili streets

Irakli Abashidze and Zakaria Paliashvili streets run parallel to each other, with a café every few doors. On Abashidze, Day Off at number 22 and Puri Guliani Express at number 37 open at 08:00 and close at 22:00. The Express is the daytime branch of the bakery-café on Saarbrücken Square, with a shorter menu and fresh bread for delivery.⁹ Shukura at number 49 has outdoor tables.

On Paliashvili, Coffee LAB's branch at number 24 has booth seating.⁷ The company roasts its own beans and calls itself Georgia's first specialty coffee roastery.¹⁴ Minimalist at number 110, a tiny third-wave bar that serves only manual brews, keeps daily hours of 09:00–22:00.¹⁰ Between the two, Pelamushi at number 60 stays open until midnight, and Pon Ponchiki at 80 and Bonny at 82 set tables on the pavement.

Getting to Vake

No metro reaches Vake. A Vake station was planned for a third metro line, but work on it never began.¹¹ Buses and taxis cover the gap, and a bus ride costs ₾1, the same as the metro.¹²

Shavi Coffee Roasters has a branch further out in Bagebi, at Tskneti Highway 36a, open 08:00–19:00.¹³ For early starts, Lui never closes, and Early Bird on Bazaleti Street and Bu' Neba 700 on Merab Berdzenishvili Street both open at 08:00; Bu' Neba stays open until midnight from Monday to Saturday.

Cafés in Vake

At a glance

Caffeine by WorkIn

Day Off

ადრეული ჩიტი

ბონი

ბუ' ნება 700

დეიზი

ზე ლითლ

კანარი

კორნერ

ლუი

მაო ჩაის ბუშტები

მზიური

მინიმალისტი

მურ

პიტნა

პონ პონჩიკი

პური გულიანი ექსპრესი

საშ

საშ

სთორის

სლოუ

ფელამუში

ფიკა

ქართლური სიხარული

ქართლური სიხარული

ყავის სახლი

შაქარი

შუქურა

MoonBakery

დარიჩინი

თავი თავი

ი ფანგი

მაი ბობა

როლ აუტ

ქრიმი

21/08 Coffee And Wine Bar

Coffee chains in Vake

Entrée

Meama

Coffee LAB

Coffeesta

Shavi Coffee Roasters

Canape

Coffeeshop Company

Costa Coffee

Starbucks

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf

Mziuri and Vake Park

Lui and the avenue

Abashidze and Paliashvili streets

Getting to Vake

Sources

More of Tbilisi

Old Tbilisi & Sololaki

Rustaveli & Mtatsminda

Vera

Saburtalo

Marjanishvili & Chugureti

Avlabari

Vake cafés: questions

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