Barbarestan
Nineteenth-century Georgian recipes, rebuilt from a duchess's lost cookbook
Barbarestan is the table that reawakened Georgia's culinary history. The family behind it found an 1874 cookbook by Duchess Barbare Jorjadze — the first written by a Georgian woman — at the Dry Bridge flea market, and built the whole menu from its 800-odd recipes.
The result is Georgian cooking you will not find elsewhere: dishes that fell out of fashion a century ago, served in a warm, lamp-lit room of lace and vintage crockery. The menu rotates with the season, so ask what the kitchen is cooking from the book that week.
What to order
It is the one Tbilisi dinner guests still talk about weeks later — book it early in your trip and, because tables go fast, let us reserve it the moment your dates are set.