10 Best Restaurants in Batumi for Vegetarians

Batumi is renowned for its beach, casinos, and its Adjaruli khachapuri: the iconic boat-shaped bread filled with cheese, a slab of butter and a runny yolk. So if you want to taste the real deal, this is the city you have to visit; nowhere (and I mean nowhere) will do it as well as Batumi and the Adjara region!

Batumi has a really good restaurant scene so even if you don’t fancy the pebbly beach and the casinos, come to Batumi for the food.

We’ve spent two weeks in the city over the last few years and so have managed to eat our way through many of the best restaurants in Batumi for vegetarians! Here are the ones you cannot miss:

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1. Retro

📍 10 Takaishvili St.

This is THE place.

There is an entire section on the menu just for Adjaruli khachapuri – different sizes, fillings, cheeses. There is even a ‘Titanic’ made for sharing that is huge and has six egg yolks!

We went for a classic Adjaruli khachapuri with sulguni and Imeretian cheeses, and wow, is it special. The bread is soft and crisp, the cheese is salty and chewy and a little charred on top, the yolk is smooth and creamy. Stunning. 10/10.

Adjaruli khachapuri is a bread boat filled with melted cheese and a runny egg yolk in Retro, Batumi - best restaurants in Batumi

2. Laguna

📍 18 Zurab Gorgiladze St.

Laguna serves THE most phenomenal Adjarian khachapuri, and it is the biggest that we have ever been served.

There are options for large or small, with or without egg. We went for the large with egg between us to get the full authentic experience. Before tucking in, use your fork or the end of the bread to break up the egg and mix it all in with the cheese and butter. Then carefully rip of bits of the bread boat rim to dip into the eggy, cheesy, buttery mixture. Try not to break the bread dam and it all spill out!

So calorific. So rich. So indulgent.

adjarian khachapuri bread boat filled with cheese and egg

3. Acharuli Khachapuri House

📍 39 26 May St.

This one was SO good that we didn’t stop to get a picture. It’s always such a dilemma, but the camera does eat first 95% of the time! They exclusively serve khachapuri and salad; so you know that it’s going to be good. The khachapuri was much smaller and more manageable between two people, but what made this one stands out was the crisp dough. The others that we have tried definitely had more of a stodginess. This wasn’t stodgy and so it felt lighter (though I’m sure that’s not true!).

Acharuli Khachapuri House - a bread boat filled with melted cheese and a runny egg yolk

4. Cafe Adjara Old House

📍 11 Kutaisi St.

Situated in the old side of the city, Cafe Adjara Old House has a welcoming feel and plenty of Georgian vegetarian options.

We tried the mushroom ojakhuri (mushrooms, potatoes and onions fried up with garlic and loads of herbs served on ketsi) and the ajapsandali (aubergine, peppers, onions, garlic and herbs) with a carafe of wine. One of our favourite all-round restaurants for the full experience from atmosphere to food to service.

a ketsi clay bowl filled with ajapsandali (a Georgian vegetable stew) sits beside two glasses of white wine

5. Pirosmani

📍 36 H. Abashidze St.

This is a pretty modern restaurant serving huge brothy khinkali and tasty Georgian salad amongst many other options. If you haven’t yet tasted khinkali, this is a great spot for your first experience. Khinkali are large boiled dumplings with a thin dough and traditionally filled with meat. However, there are herby mushroom varieties that can be found all over the country, and they are so flavourful! Georgian salad is typically tomato, cucumber, onion and parsley with a walnut dressing. Lovely.

6. Ardagani Cafe Restaurant

📍 5 Pirosmani St.

This is a proper locals’ place serving proper local food with no other tourists in sight. The menu is huge and has all of the vegetarian Georgian classics – you can’t go wrong with the mushroom ojakhuri and tomato and cucumber salad with walnut dressing.

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7. Panda (Chinese Restaurant)

📍 59 Chavchavadze St.

Delicious Chinese food with punchy flavours. The mapo tofu and spicy green beans in szechuan pepper and dried chillies were outrageously good, and if we had stayed longer in Batumi, we would definitely have gone back for round two!

three bowls sit next to each other on a table. Once has white rice, one has dry-fried, spicy green beans, and one has a bowl of spicy and saucy mapo tofu with spring onions on top

8. Vegan Bro Cafe

📍 33 Noe Zhordania St.

This is a small place in the old town with plenty of veg and vegan options to choose from. We went for the non-fish ‘fish’ burritos and they were delicious. Creamy sauce, all the salad, chewy flatbread, and very fish-like (I believe it was) tofu ‘fish’. And they serve a cup of complimentary ‘gratitude tea’ with your meal.

9. Uzbek Tandoor

📍 150 Vakhtang Gorgasali St.

The ultimate samsa spot! Uzbek cuisine generally doesn’t have many vegetarian options, but when we spent three weeks travelling the country, we lived off of pumpkin samsa. And then when wandering around Batumi, we stumbled upon a proper Uzbek tandoor with four vegetarian options (some of which are vegan!). Super crisp on the outside with a soft, savoury middle. Grab yourself a couple and head down to a bench by the beach.

a cross section of a potato samsa from Uzbek Tandoor in Batumi is held up with a beach background and blue skies

a close up shot of the inside of a working Uzbek tandoor shows flames at the bottom and uncooked dough parcels stuck to the inside walls while they cook

10. Freeduchio

📍 6 Griboedov St.

A quirky restaurant with a hipster feel about it, you will find several vegetarian options here. We went for the Middle Eastern breakfast which consisted of shakshuka, bread, hummus and salad. They do great breakfast options, big veggie sandwiches, coffees etc. too.

a black skillet of shakshuka (eggs baked in a tomato sauce, a couple of slices of bread, and a bowl of hummus with some veg

Other Things to Do in Batumi

Batumi is somewhere you could spend a few days checking out the wacky architecture and statues, wandering the seafront boulevard with an ice cream, exploring the old town, and searching for street art. There is a long cable car ride up and over Batumi for beautiful views. If you’re thinking of heading to Batumi for the food and specifically the Adjaruli khachapuri (which is a VERY good move), stay a little while and breathe in the sea air.

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