Halal food and prayer in Georgia: what we have checked

How to read this page

For each place we say which kind of evidence we have: a listing in Zabihah, an independent halal directory; the restaurant’s own statement; or, for a mosque, the page of Georgia’s national tourism board.

None of this is a certificate, and we have not yet been to these restaurants ourselves. Before your departure we confirm the points that matter for your dates and tell you what was confirmed.

Mosques

Mosques in Tbilisi and Batumi, with what is confirmed and what is still to confirm.

Mosque	What is confirmed	Still to confirm
Juma MosqueBotanical Street, Abanotubani, old Tbilisi	What is confirmedThe national tourism board’s page states that Friday and Eid prayers are held here.	Still to confirmThat page gives neither the time of the Friday prayer nor the women’s prayer area. We ask the mosque before your departure.
Orta Jame (Batumi Mosque)Kutaisi Street, Batumi	What is confirmedThe mosque of central Batumi, built in 1866. Friday prayers are held here. It is small and fills beyond its capacity on Fridays, when many worshippers pray in the streets around it.	Still to confirmThe women’s prayer area. On a Friday, plan to arrive early.

We found no mosque in Gudauri, Bakuriani, Borjomi or Stepantsminda (Kazbegi). There, prayers are said in your room or at a stop on the road: prayer mats travel in the vehicle, we stop at prayer times, and your itinerary shows the prayer times for each day.

The facilities page of Tbilisi International Airport does not mention a prayer room. We ask the airport before your departure and tell you the answer.

Restaurants

Restaurants we have checked from published sources, with the evidence for each. Not yet visited by us.

Restaurant	Evidence
Spectra27 Vazha Pshavela, Tbilisi	EvidenceZabihah listing: “All food at this restaurant is certified halal”; no alcohol. Egyptian, Italian and Middle Eastern food.
Food Palace51 Davit Aghmashenebeli Avenue, Tbilisi	EvidenceZabihah listing, quoting the management: all meat bought is halal and no alcohol is served. Indian, Pakistani and Middle Eastern food.
Spice Garden123 Davit Aghmashenebeli Avenue, Tbilisi	EvidenceThe restaurant’s own site describes its food as “100% halal”; the Zabihah listing says the owners have confirmed it; no alcohol. Indian, Pakistani, Persian and Middle Eastern food.
Delivac23 Angia Bochorishvili Street, Tbilisi	EvidenceZabihah listing: staff gave a verbal assurance of halal status; no alcohol. Georgian and Middle Eastern food. The listed hours are 10:00–18:00, so it suits lunch rather than dinner.
Georgian Arabic Restaurant Mecca30 Kutaisi Street, Batumi	EvidenceZabihah listing; no alcohol. Georgian, Middle Eastern and Turkish food.
Spice Garden BatumiBatumi	EvidenceA branch listed on the restaurant’s own site, which describes its food as “100% halal”. The restaurant’s own description only.
Spice Garden GudauriGudauri; the address is not given on the restaurant’s site	EvidenceA branch listed on the restaurant’s own site, which describes its food as “100% halal”. The restaurant’s own description only. The opening months are not stated, so we confirm whether it is open in your month.

These places come from a third-party halal guide or from the restaurant’s own description, as stated for each one; our team has not yet visited them.

In the mountains and on the road

In Tbilisi and Batumi there are restaurants listed as halal; in the mountains the choice is very small. In Gudauri, Bakuriani, Borjomi and Stepantsminda, and on the motorway section near Kutaisi, we have not been able to confirm a halal restaurant, apart from the Gudauri branch that describes itself as halal.

Mountain meals are therefore arranged in advance and confirmed to you before departure. When the Gudauri restaurant is open, lunch is reserved there; when it is closed, we order a packed halal lunch from Tbilisi. Dinner at a mountain hotel is arranged with the hotel beforehand, and we tell you what the hotel has confirmed.

Georgian cooking uses pork widely, including in some khinkali dumplings, so please ask before ordering outside the restaurants named here.

Friday prayer

Friday prayers are held at Juma Mosque in old Tbilisi and at Orta Jame in Batumi. If you wish to pray the Friday prayer at the mosque, tell us when you book: we set the order of the days so that Friday falls in Tbilisi or in Batumi, wherever your flights allow.

No wine in the itinerary

No wine tasting and no winery visit is scheduled on our itineraries for guests from the Gulf.

What we confirm before you travel

Before your departure we confirm the points we could not verify from published sources:

• The time of the Friday prayer and the women’s prayer area at Juma Mosque.
• Whether the Gudauri restaurant is open in your month.
• Whether Tbilisi airport has a prayer room.
• The qibla direction and a bidet sprayer in your hotel room.

Sources

We read each of these pages on 6 October 2026. Every link opens the page itself. If a rule has changed since that date, the official page prevails.

• Georgian National Tourism Administration: Juma Mosque (opens in a new window)Official tourism page: Friday and Eid prayers are held at the mosque.
• Zabihah: Spectra, Tbilisi (opens in a new window)An independent halal directory, not an official register.
• Zabihah: Food Palace, Tbilisi (opens in a new window)Independent directory; the halal statement is the management’s.
• Zabihah: Spice Garden, Tbilisi (opens in a new window)Independent directory; halal status confirmed by the owners.
• Zabihah: Delivac, Tbilisi (opens in a new window)Independent directory; a verbal assurance from the staff.
• Zabihah: Georgian Arabic Restaurant Mecca, Batumi (opens in a new window)Independent directory; listed as serving no alcohol.
• Spice Garden: the restaurant’s own site (opens in a new window)Lists the branches, Batumi and Gudauri among them, and describes the food as “100% halal”. The restaurant’s own statement.
• Wikipedia: Batumi Mosque (opens in a new window)Not an official source. The year the mosque was built and its capacity.
• JAMnews: the Muslims of Batumi (opens in a new window)A news report: on Fridays worshippers pray in the streets around the mosque.
• Tbilisi International Airport: facilities and services (opens in a new window)The airport’s own page; it does not mention a prayer room.