Cafe Retro

Batumi


There’s no better place to decide whether you like khachapuri Acharuli, Adjara’s large boat-shaped variety of Georgia’s national fast food with a lightly fried egg on top, than this local institution widely considered to make the best in town. It even serves mini-khachapuri for those not entirely sold on the delicacy!


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Nearby Batumi attractions

1. Batumi Archeological Museum

0.35 MILES

This excellent museum showcases some of the many valuable archaeological discoveries made in Adjara, particularly at the Gonio Apsaros Fortress. The main…

2. Adjara Arts Museum

0.46 MILES

Well displayed and well lit in an attractive neoclassical Soviet building, the small permanent collection upstairs covers Georgian art from the late 19th…

3. Batumi Boulevard

0.63 MILES

Everyone soon finds themselves strolling along Batumis bulvari, the park strip fronting the main beach, originally laid out in 1884 and now stretching 7km…

4. Evropas Moedani

0.67 MILES

Broad Europe Sq is surrounded by beautiful belle-époque buildings – renovated survivors from Batumi's original heyday, plus new buildings in a similar…

5. Medea Monument

0.67 MILES

Towering over Evropas moedani is this striking portrayal of Medea, the local princess who would help her future husband Jason obtain the Golden Fleece. A…

6. Dancing Fountains

0.7 MILES

On the southern part of the boulevard, known as the New Boulevard, an ornamental lake hosts the Dancing Fountains, an entertaining laser, music and water…

7. Batumi Tower

0.73 MILES

Georgia's tallest building (even if much of it is its needle), the 200m-high Batumi Tower boasts a mini Ferris wheel of deeply questionable aesthetic…

8. Ortajame Mosque

0.95 MILES

Batumi’s only surviving mosque, built in the 1860s, is finely painted in pinks, greens and blues, with Quranic calligraphy on the walls – but is no longer…