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🛍️ Shopping

Tbilisi for Shopping Lovers — 3 Days of Dry Bridge Antiques, Enamel & Kakhetian Wine

Soviet flea markets, contemporary Georgian designers on Aghmashenebeli, felt slippers and cellar-door wine from Deserter's Bazaar to Fabrika.

📍 Tbilisi, Georgia 📅 3-day itinerary

Tbilisi shopping runs from the Dry Bridge flea market's Soviet medals and Bohemian glass to concept stores selling Georgian designers at Berlin prices. Between them sit Deserter's Bazaar spice mounds, minankari enamel workshops and cellar wine shops filling bottles from qvevri.

Local Markets & Artisan Shops

09:00
🪙 Dry Bridge Market (Mshrali Khidi)

Open-air flea market along the Mtkvari embankment where sellers spread Soviet pins, Zenit cameras, Bohemian crystal and hand-painted icons on blankets. Daily roughly 10:00–17:00, busiest at weekends. Pins from 5 GEL, samovars 80–250 GEL.

⏱ 2-3 hours 💶 5–250 GEL
Start at the far end by Dedaena Park where prices drop; haggling to about 60% of the asking price is expected and done politely in Russian or English.
12:00
🌶️ Deserter's Bazaar (Dezerter Bazroba)

Tbilisi's largest food market beside the central train station, stacked with churchkhela strings, blue fenugreek, svanuri marili salt, sulguni cheese and walnut sacks. Open daily 08:00–19:00. Spice bags 3–8 GEL, churchkhela 5–10 GEL each.

⏱ 1.5 hours 💶 3–20 GEL
The covered upper hall has the cleanest spice stalls; ask for vacuum-sealed sulguni if you plan to fly it home.
14:30
🎨 Minankari Enamel Workshop, Ietim Gurji Street

Cluster of cloisonné enamel studios near Meidan where artisans fuse coloured glass into silver wire cells, a Georgian technique revived from medieval icon work. Pendants start around 120 GEL, larger silver pieces run 300–800 GEL.

⏱ 2 hours 💶 120–800 GEL
17:00
🧶 Meidan Bazaar (underground caravanserai arcade)

Vaulted brick tunnel beneath Meidan Square packed with felt shepherd hats, Tusheti wool slippers, papakhi, horn drinking vessels and enamel. Open daily until about 20:00. Wool slippers 25–45 GEL, horn kantsi 60–150 GEL.

⏱ 1.5 hours
Prices are fixed and tourist-facing here — note what you like, then compare with Dry Bridge sellers before buying the bigger pieces.

Boutiques & Design Districts

10:00
👗 Chaos Concept Store, Kote Abkhazi Street

Multi-brand concept store carrying Georgian labels alongside international streetwear, in a restored Old Town building. Open daily around 11:00–20:00. Georgian-designed tees from 150 GEL, statement outerwear 600–1,500 GEL.

⏱ 2 hours 💶 150–1,500 GEL
Ask staff which pieces are locally produced — the Georgian racks change faster than the imported ones and rarely restock.
13:00
🏭 Fabrika Tbilisi courtyard shops

Former Soviet sewing factory in Chugureti turned hostel and creative hub, its courtyard ringed with studios selling ceramics, silkscreen prints, jewellery and slow fashion. Shops generally open 12:00–20:00 around a graffiti-covered yard.

⏱ 1 hour
15:00
💍 Agmashenebeli Avenue design strip

Pedestrianised nineteenth-century avenue between Marjanishvili and Fabrika lined with small ateliers, leather workshops and jewellers working in silver and Georgian motifs. Silver rings 180–400 GEL, handmade leather bags 250–600 GEL.

⏱ 2 hours 💶 180–600 GEL
18:00
📚 Prospero's Books & Caliban's Coffee, Rustaveli Ave

Courtyard bookshop off Rustaveli with the city's best English-language section on Georgian history, Caucasus travel writing and translated Georgian fiction, plus maps and postcards. Open daily to about 21:00.

⏱ 1 hour
The Georgian-literature-in-translation shelf near the counter is the shop's strongest — Dato Turashvili and Aka Morchiladze sell out fastest.

Souvenirs & Hidden Gems

09:30
🍷 Vino Underground, Galaktion Tabidze St

Cellar wine shop and bar founded by a cooperative of natural qvevri winemakers, stocking small Kakhetian and Imeretian producers you won't find abroad. Bottles 35–90 GEL, tastings around 25–40 GEL for a flight of three.

⏱ 2 hours 💶 35–90 GEL per bottle
Amber (qvevri-fermented white) wines travel best; staff will wrap and box bottles for hold luggage at no charge.
12:30
🫖 Georgian ceramics stalls, Rike Park riverside

Riverside craft stands below the Bridge of Peace selling glazed clay wine jugs, Kakhetian pitchers and hand-painted plates in the traditional dark-green and ochre glazes, alongside felt toys and woven table runners.

⏱ 1.5 hours
14:30
🧵 Tbilisi Carpet Gallery / Silk Road rug dealers, Betlemi St

Steep Old Town lane above Abanotubani with dealers in Caucasian kilims, Karabakh and Kazakh rugs, plus Georgian pardagi flat-weaves. Small kilims 300–900 GEL, antique tribal pieces 2,000 GEL and up.

⏱ 2 hours 💶 300–2,000+ GEL
17:30
🛍️ Galleria Tbilisi, Rustaveli Ave

Glass-roofed mall built into the restored 1930s post office building at Freedom Square, with international chains, a supermarket for spice and wine gifts, and a rooftop terrace over Rustaveli. Open daily 10:00–22:00.

⏱ 1.5 hours
The basement Goodwill supermarket sells the same tkemali, adjika and churchkhela as the bazaars with barcodes and receipts — simpler for customs declarations.

📍 Route map

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