LALI - KITCHEN & BAR

Lali Kitchen & Bar sits on Pavstos Buzand Street in Kentron and runs a menu centered on Georgian staples. Khachapuri comes in four versions — Adjarian classic, Adjarian with mushrooms, Imeretian, and Megrelian — priced from 4100֏ to 4500֏. Khinkali are offered classic or with cheese, both at 650֏ each. Hot appetizers include adjapsandali (steamed eggplant, 4100֏) and lobio (steamed beans, 3500֏), alongside fried young potatoes (2400֏). Hot dishes cover chashushuli (4500֏), classic ojakhuri (4500֏), toltma with matsun (4400֏), squid with chkmeruli sauce (6800֏), and two durum wraps — one with sous-vide squid (3800֏), one from Lake Sevan with knyaz fish (4900֏). Soups include kharcho with beef (3750֏) and chikhirtma with chicken (3200֏) or seafood (4900֏). Salads range from a Georgian salad with walnuts and tomatoes (4500֏) to a Kamchatka crab salad (9500֏). Sauces — baje, green and red tklemali, matsun, mokhitklemali, chkmeruli — are sold separately at 700֏ each. The mangal section adds grilled salmon steak (9800֏), pork steak with baked sweet potato (5900֏), tabaka chicken (7000֏), and beef medallions (8900֏). Cold appetizers lean toward hummus with duck breast (4300֏) or caramelized sweet potato (3500֏), lyabne with roast beef (5300֏), and chicken liver pate (4300֏). Desserts are nush tart (3500֏) and cold pakhlava (3700֏). Drinks include Taste of Batumi, Tbilisi, and Kutaisi (2450֏ each) plus imported beers. Average check runs around 8000 AMD, fitting groups wanting a full Georgian spread or diners after a single hachapuri and soup.