This collection of must-try signature dishes showcases the unique splendor of Georgian cuisine.
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The Ultimate Guide to Georgia Food: The 10 BEST Dishes You Must Try!
Serious Eats / Georgian National Tourism Administration
When you arrive in Tbilisi border officials don’t just stamp your passport; they hand you a bottle of wine. It’s a fitting welcome in Georgia a mountainous country wedged between Europe and Asia where dinner guests are revered as “gifts from God” and traditional feasts called supras unfold in biblical proportions and can last for days.
It’s easy to lose track of time at the Georgian table. On a visit to the country’s capital I joined some friends for dinner which consisted of a dizzying array of salads followed by steaming vats of heady stews and roasts gallons of orange wine and occasional forays into polyphonic harmony a hallmark of Georgian folk music. When I stumbled back to my hotel at 4 a.m. stuffed and blissfully happy I felt as if I’d woken from a culinary fever dream.