Where to work in Tbilisi

Tbilisi is compact: most of the places people work from sit within a few kilometres of Freedom Square, and the two metro lines connect the busiest areas. Still, each neighbourhood works differently, from the office towers of Saburtalo to the courtyards of Sololaki. Below, each area with its live numbers from our directory: how many coworking spaces and laptop-friendly cafés it has, what a day pass typically costs, and the nearest metro stations with the median walk.

The places named in each section are picked by rule: the best Work Score first, then places we've verified, then the ones nearest the centre.

Saburtalo

Tbilisi's busiest work district: universities, office towers and apartment blocks along Vazha-Pshavela and Pekini avenues, with the second metro line running through it. It has more coworking spaces than any other part of the city, including branches of the main networks, and it's practical rather than pretty: you come here to get work done, close to home if you live in the area.

13 coworking · 11 cafés · day pass about ₾34 · metro Medical University, Delisi (7 min walk)

Start with Collider Saburtalo and Caffeine by WorkIn. All coworking in Saburtalo and its work cafés.

Vera

Between Rustaveli Avenue and Vake: old townhouses, embassies, Vera Park and the Stamba complex in a former Soviet publishing house. It has the densest mix of work cafés and small coworking spaces in the city, plenty of places to eat, and Rustaveli metro within a short walk of most of it.

4 coworking · 10 cafés · day pass about ₾30 · metro Rustaveli (9 min walk)

Start with Chika Rustaveli and Tsre. All coworking in Vera and its work cafés.

Vake

Leafy and expensive, around Ilia Chavchavadze Avenue and Vake Park. It's quieter, with good cafés and restaurants and some of the newer office buildings, but there's no metro station: from most spaces the nearest stations are a long walk, so people come by taxi or bus.

10 coworking · 14 cafés · day pass about ₾40 · metro Rustaveli (20 min walk)

Start with Ska Juices and Coffee LAB Paliashvili. All coworking in Vake and its work cafés.

Chugureti and Marjanishvili

Across the river from Vera, around Marjanishvili Square and the restored Aghmashenebeli Avenue. Fabrika, a Soviet sewing factory turned hostel with a courtyard of bars and studios, anchors its creative side. Two metro stations, Marjanishvili and Station Square, make it one of the easiest areas to reach.

6 coworking · 8 cafés · day pass about ₾40 · metro Marjanishvili, Station Square (10 min walk)

Start with Puri Guliani and Moxy Now Bar. All coworking in Chugureti and its work cafés.

Sololaki and Mtatsminda

The quieter end of the old town, below Narikala and Mtatsminda: nineteenth-century houses with carved balconies, small cafés and Freedom Square at the bottom of the hill, with its metro station. Good for a few hours in a café between meetings in the centre.

5 coworking · 10 cafés · day pass about ₾30 · metro Liberty Square, Rustaveli (5 min walk)

Start with Regus Freedom Square and Santino Tabidze. All coworking in Sololaki and its work cafés. All coworking in Mtatsminda and its work cafés.

Old Tbilisi and Avlabari

Meidan, the sulphur baths and Rike Park: beautiful and full of visitors, with few places to sit with a laptop for long. Avlabari, across the river, has the Sameba cathedral and its own metro station.

1 coworking · 8 cafés · metro Liberty Square, Avlabari (6 min walk)

Start with Daily Grind and PAUL Galleria Tbilisi. All coworking in Old Tbilisi and its work cafés. All work cafés in Avlabari.

Didube and Nadzaladevi

North along the river, around the Didube bus station and the Dinamo stadium: busier, cheaper and more practical than pretty, with several stations on the first metro line.

3 coworking · 1 cafés · metro Gotsiridze, Station Square (13 min walk)

Start with Regus Stadium and Shavi The Hub. All coworking in Didube and its work cafés. All coworking in Nadzaladevi.

Dighomi, Didi Dighomi and the Nutsubidze plateau

Residential districts on the city's northern and western edges, newer apartment blocks in Dighomi and Soviet-era ones on the Nutsubidze plateau above Saburtalo. The few spaces here serve the people who live nearby.

3 coworking · 0 cafés · metro Vazha-Pshavela

Start with Hubitat Coworking. All coworking in Didi Dighomi. All coworking in Nutsubidze.

Isani and Samgori

The left bank's residential districts along the first metro line, where a couple of spaces serve the neighbourhood.

2 coworking · 0 cafés · metro Samgori

Start with Combinati. All coworking in Isani.

Choosing

• On foot from the metro (a median walk of ten minutes or less): Sololaki, Old Tbilisi, Saburtalo, Avlabari, Vera, Mtatsminda and Chugureti.
• The most cafés to work from: Vake, Saburtalo and Vera.
• The most coworking spaces: Saburtalo, Vake and Chugureti.
• Quiet and green: Vake, if you don't mind a taxi.

Prices and what to check before you pay are in our coworking guide.