Tbilisi

Entrée is a great cafe chain for a quick breakfast. It will spoil you with a selection of coffee and teas, as well as mouthwatering croissants and cakes, but also with the traditional Georgian pies with cheese, beans or meat. Check out the company's website to look for other Entrée's locations in Tbilisi, all featuring the same cosy ambience.

Carpe Diem is a small cafe where you can grab a coffee, a beer or a fresh mojito along with some good cakes and snacks. The location is really unique and cosy, and it features a lovely balcony with a great view of the old town on which you can actually spend hours watching life going by.

Tbilisi has a knack for refurbishing old industrial spaces. Once a soviet sewing factory, Fabrika has been revived and transformed into a multi-functional urban space that combines a hostel, a co-working space, cool cafes and bars, a few hipster shops and restaurants. During the day digital nomads and local creatives tap away on their laptops, while after 6pm a lively party crowd fills the inner courtyard. It's the ultimate meeting spot in Tbilisi.

Coffee LAB is a stylish digital nomad hangout spot with two floors of seating. It is frequently busy with most people working on laptops and only soft music playing in the background. The coffee is great, of course. In the evening, try their amazing coffee-based cocktails. If you are hungry, delicious burgers, bistro menu and desserts are available.

Daphna is a minimalist pastel-coloured venue that offers a decent variety of hand-wrapped Khinkali, Georgian dumplings, and other light meals such as a salad, cheese plate, or fried potatoes. The highlight of the menu is Dambalkhacho — a particular type of delicacy made from buttermilk cottage cheese that remains after churning butter.

Puri Guliani is a restaurant, cafe and bakery with loft-style interior, shaded patio with a view over the Mtkvari river. Great any time of day, it is particularly popular for brunch. Baked goods are on point: both savoury Adjarian khachapuri and buttery almond croissants. This cafe is kid-friendly and has a play area upstairs, so adults can have some time to unwind while the young ones are entertained.

Prospero's bookstore features a wide range of English books and is a perfect quiet place to read and relax surrounded by the aroma of coffee and tea. In the same location, Caliban's coffeehouse imports a variety of coffee beans from Kenya, Haiti, Brazil, Indonesia and Colombia, and offers one of the best coffees in town, as well as a huge selection of teas.