Our company offers very special gourmet tours
Healthy products, ancient recipes,
excellent cooks – this combination makes a wide range of festive and colourful dishes
LOVE FROM THE FIRST BITE
The abundant land of
Georgia gives delicious vegetables and
fruits and certainly different savory
herbs
To travel from region to region and see, observe and prepare
food with your own hands!
The best cooks and locals -
also skilled cooks will show you the best of the Georgian
Cuisine. You will get initiated with the secrets of this age-long art. So, come
and get them!
Tabaka – flattened young chicken fried in clay pans or heavy
skillets. Is served with tkemali or Niortskhali souse – a pungent garlic souse.
Tkemali – sharp and savory souse made of sour plum,
extremely good for health..
Khashi – Tripe Soup
Khashi is not only tasty and killing the bad effects of
hangover but has curative power for a stomach well.
Matsoni – (Georgian yogurt) soup.
This is perfect for a vegetarian diet. Fresh mint and
cilantro give very special touch to this dish.
Kupati – traditional Georgian coiled sausage is perfectly
spicy with cinnamon, barberry, cloves and is fried in a skillet.
Satsivi – made of poultry, turkey being most famous. Broth
from the boiled bird is mixed with walnut souse and plenty of spices, ground
marygold among them. This dish goes well with corn bread and Ghomi.
Ghomi- boiled corn, reminding American homini grits is eaten
hot with special sulguni cheese.
Khachapuri – excellent cheese bread. Visitors will discover
several different kinds of khachapuri and surprisingly enough each cook bakes
it in different ways.
Lobiani – Bean-stuffed bread, tasty and healthy dish with
little cholesterol.
Khinkali – extremely popular with Georgians as well as
visitors. These are stuffed dumplings. The stuffing in most cases is meat –
beef, mixture of pork and beef or mutton. Easy to find khinkali with cheese,
cottage cheese, potatoes, mushrooms. Khinkali are served hot. As khinkalis
develop juice inside they replace soup in some way.
Bazha, Sinori, Chakapuli, pkhali, the list will continue
much longer .All these dishes require good store of wine to wash them down – excellent
Georgian wines chosen carefully for suitable delicatessen.
Typical Georgian
desserts are not that versatile for typical dessert are fruits – fragrant, inviting, delicious.
Although today visitors are sure to try plenty of various pastry and
confectionery from different countries.
Churchkhela – Georgian candy with a difficult name but
wonderful taste. Threaded walnuts or hazelnuts dipped in thickened grape juice
prove being delicious and healthy sweet.
Better to taste everything and then judge!
Day 1. Arrival in Tbilisi. Accommodation in the
hotel.
Morning excursion in Tbilisi visiting major museums and the
sites of cultural importance.
Lunch in the national
restaurant. Getting familiarized with local dishes.
Preparation of khinkali. The group observes and takes part.
Dinner in one of the best restaurants with wines and live music.
Overnight in the hotel.
Day 2. Walking around picturesque quarters of
the old city.
Tbilisi – Gori – Kutaisi
Departure from Tbilisi to Gori. See around this old town and
visit Stalin Museum.
Head for Ateni – picturesque village, see marvelous 7th
c. church and go to locals’ house to have lunch. Observe preparation of
Mkhlovana – spinach pie and tabaka – flattened chicken. Taste some superb
pickles and Kada – local cakes.
After lunch continue to Kutaisi.
Accommodation in the guesthouse .
Observe and cook eggplant with walnuts and baking
khachapuri.
Dinner with local Imeretian wines.
Day 3. Kutaisi -
Racha
Observe making pancakes with jam.
Drive via picturesque Nakerala Pass to Ambrolauri.
Reach locals’ house and take part in preparation of LObiani.
Lunch with homemade superb wine Khvanchkara. This is subtle
sweet red wine made of distinctive grapes.
Continue driving in the mountains towards Oni – the capital
of the district.
Accommodation in the guesthouse.
Prepare local mushrooms and Lobio – special thick soup with
smoked ham. Lobio is
Served in clay pots.
Dinner with local wines.
Overnight in the hotel.
Day 4. Racha - Batumi
Breakfast, depart for Nikortsminda
Drive the same road, en route visit a unique 11th
c. St Nicholas Church. Incredible releaves and frescoes are interesting to view.. Pass
along the beautiful Shaori Lake.
Lunch at the local family in Terjola. Cooking Kupati – hot
sausage and Chadi – corn bread. Wash down with light local wine.
Continue driving towards Batumi – the Black Sea Coast.
Accommodation in the hotel. Relax.
Dinner in the hotel. (Georgian as well as international cuisine).
Day 5. Batumi
Breakfast in the hotel.
Short excursions around this charming city. Gonio Fortress –
impressive typical old Roman fort very well-preserved close from the sea. Visit
Caucasian sheepdogs’ nursery.
Go to Sarpi – the village that borders with Turkey. Lazis –
famous Georgian tribe live in this village.
Visit the local family and watch and participate in
preparation of Achma – peculiar khachapuri and incredibly delicious fried fish.
Try Batumian beer.
Go to see the centre of Batumi – churches, mosque, relax in
the promenade.
Dinner in the restaurant at Batumi. Local dishes – Borano,
Sinori Apokhti and of course super khachapuri – special Adjarian one. Having
shape of boats (we are at the seaside).
Especially interesting baking these ones. Red wines will be
helpful to wash down these delicacies.
Overnight in the hotel.
Day 6. Batumi -
Tbilisi
Breakfast, start for Tbilisi.
Lunch en route in the local restaurant.
Shashlik – barbeque, pkhali – different herbs with spices
and walnuts.
Visit Mtskheta – the World Heritage UNESCO site.
Arrive in Tbilisi, overnight in the hotel.
Day 7 Tbilisi –
Kakheti - Tbilisi
Breakfast at the hotel, depart for Kakheti, east of Tbilisi.
Visit Ninotsminda Complex (6-18th c.)
Continue to Inner Kakheti, drive up to Signagi – fortified
medeavel town, see around and drive to the village of Chumlaki – interesting
experience awaiting here – baking of dedas puri – local bread, shashlyk and
Kakhetian pride – khashlama.
Lunch with superb Kakhetian wines accompanied with live
music – folk songs.
Preparation of Tatara
and churchkhelas– dessert made of walnuts and grape juice.
Head for Tbilisi, return to the hotel. Dinner and overnight
an the hotel.
Departure.
Number of persons
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3
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5
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8
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15
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20
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Price per person
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1010
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870
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795
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730
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710
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Price of the tour per person in
USD:
The price includes:
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Accommodation in DBL rooms on FB
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Transfer
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Transportation
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Guide
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Lunch
with superb wines, chchas accompanied with live music – folk songs
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