Georgian Folk Shows in Tbilisi: Where to Go and Prices

Georgian folk shows in Tbilisi come in two formats: a ticketed concert by a national ensemble, or a restaurant where dancers and singers work the room while you eat. A concert date we could confirm is Erisioni’s “Georgian Treasure” on 30 October 2026 at the Tbilisi Sports Palace, from 60 GEL (about $23, €20.60, £17.40) for 90 minutes. The daily option is Ethno Tsiskvili in the Dighomi district, which says on its own site that live music and dance run every evening from 20:00 to 00:00. The loudest name, Sukhishvili, is the awkward one: it reaches Tbilisi in bursts, with a fixed slot at the Art-Gene festival each July and occasional concerts of its own, so it’s not something you can plan an autumn trip around.

Two ways to see it: a stage or a table

The choice comes down to what you want from the evening. A concert is a produced show with a start time, a seat and an end. A restaurant folds the same dances into a long dinner, and you eat, drink and watch in whatever order suits you.

The prices come from the organisers’ own pages, checked on 13 October 2026, and the restaurant’s menu prints its numbers without a currency sign; at that level they can only be lari. Both change, so confirm the night you want. Our events calendar shows what else is on in the city that month.

Erisioni at the Sports Palace, 30 October 2026

Erisioni is an ensemble of dancers and singers whose own site dates its history to 1885. On 30 October 2026 it stages “Georgian Treasure”, which the ensemble describes as a grand show with vocal pieces and dance compositions it hasn’t performed before, plus modern stage effects.

The practical numbers sit on the ticket page: doors open at 18:30, the show starts at 20:00 and runs 90 minutes, children from 6 are admitted, and tickets start at 60 GEL. They’re non-refundable, so buy them once your dates are fixed, not as a hopeful placeholder.

The Sports Palace stands on Bidzina Kvernadze Street in Saburtalo, roughly 5.4 km from Freedom Square, or about 9 minutes by car without traffic by our OpenStreetMap calculation. After a 90-minute show, book your taxi in an app rather than flagging one down in the street, which is also the UK Foreign Office’s advice for Georgia.

If your trip doesn’t touch that date, take it as a pointer to where dates appear: the ensemble posts them on its own site and sells through biletebi.ge.

What the dancers are doing on stage

Georgian folk dance isn’t one thing, and the show programmes are built as a tour of the country. Erisioni’s own programme page describes the pieces of its standing repertoire (its pages don’t publish the 30 October set list), and a handful are good to have in your head before any of its shows:

• Kintouri is the city dance. The ensemble’s notes say it belongs to the urban type and reflects old Tbilisi, with its name tied to the kintos, the small traders of the old town.
• Khorumi is a martial dance that stands for the valour of Georgian warriors.
• Kazbeguri comes from the mountains and, in the programme’s words, was performed only by boys there.
• Acharuli is the romantic dance of the Black Sea coast, where love between a man and a woman is told in song and movement.
• Davluri was danced at the royal court and is described as the pinnacle of Georgian folk choreography.

The singing is the other half. In Georgian polyphony several singers carry different vocal parts at the same time, and one piece on that programme has travelled further than any dancer: Chakrulo, which the programme calls a Kartli-Kakhetian heroic table song. NASA’s list of the music on the Voyager Golden Record includes it as “Georgian S.S.R., chorus, Tchakrulo”, 2 minutes 18 seconds long, and the Voyager probes carrying that record launched in 1977. So when the singers start it, you’re hearing a song that rides on a spacecraft.

Ethno Tsiskvili: the show comes with dinner

Ethno Tsiskvili is the first restaurant of the Tsiskvili chain, opened in 2002, and a natural waterfall runs inside its dining area. The restaurant’s page puts the program at live music and Georgian dance every day from 20:00 to 00:00, with the premises open from 16:00 to 01:00 and the kitchen working until 23:00.

That last detail matters. The show runs an hour past the kitchen, so order your main course before 23:00 and keep the dessert and the wine for the final act. Reservations go through +995 32 2 005 555 or reservation@tsiskvili.ge, and ask on the call which table is closest to the stage and whether a minimum order applies that evening.

It’s in Dighomi at A. Beliashvili Street 99, about 11 km from Freedom Square, or around 16 minutes by car on an empty road. That’s an outing, not a stroll from the Old Town, so plan the ride back as part of the evening. If you’re choosing a base partly for nights like this, Where to Stay in Tbilisi sorts the districts by how they connect.

What lands on the table is classic supra fare, and our food guide explains khachapuri, pkhali and mtsvadi dish by dish. If the night turns into a late one, Tbilisi’s nightlife guide covers where the clubs start after the last dance.

Booking a bundled evening

Booking platforms sell a packaged version of this kind of evening, a dinner with a folk-dance show. On Viator, a search on 13 October 2026 returned a listing titled “Tbilisi: Georgian Dinner & Dance Show - Social Night”. We couldn’t open the listing page from a script, so we haven’t read its terms; check the venue, the pick-up and what’s included before you pay.

A bundle is worth it only if it includes a pick-up, since the restaurant is about 16 minutes by car from Freedom Square, and it saves you the phone call. Booking direct costs only the menu and gets you a table of your choosing.

Other restaurants advertise shows on listing sites, Georgian House among them. Its own website showed “Georgian House Website is Under Construction” on 13 October 2026, so ring before you cross the city for any venue whose operator you can’t reach online.

Where Sukhishvili fits

Sukhishvili was founded in 1945 by Iliko Sukhishvili and Nino Ramishvili, and it’s the name visitors are most likely to have heard. In Tbilisi it surfaces at festivals: on 23 July 2026 it was billed for the opening night of Art-Gene, and our Art-Gene guide has the running order. On the city’s ticketing site biletebi.ge, the two Tbilisi events under its name that we found on 13 October 2026 were dated June and July 2025.

So don’t plan a Tbilisi autumn around it. If Sukhishvili is the point, late July and Art-Gene are the reliable bet: it has been on the organiser’s programme every year from 2023 to 2026. Otherwise plan around Erisioni or a restaurant, and treat any other date as a bonus.

What an evening costs

A worked example from the Ethno Tsiskvili online menu on 13 October 2026, for two people: two Adjarian khachapuri (23 each), two bowls of kharcho (22 each), one pkhali (17) and two portions of pork mtsvadi (25 each) come to 157 GEL, about $60, €54, £46. Drinks, wine and any service charge come on top, and the restaurant would need to confirm those by phone.

The same two people at Erisioni’s cheapest ticket pay 120 GEL, about $46, €41, £35, and that’s before dinner. So if you’d eat out that night anyway, the restaurant folds the show into the price of the meal, while the concert adds 120 GEL on top of whatever your dinner costs; the open questions at the restaurant are drinks, service and any minimum order. Pick the concert when a 90-minute production in a hall is the point, and the restaurant when the whole evening around a table is.