Brian Cicioni
| Special to USA TODAY 10Best
More than three-quarters of New York’s roughly two dozen Georgian restaurants and bakeries are located in Brooklyn. And that’s no accident as the majority of New York’s 5,000-plus Georgian population live in South Brooklyn neighborhoods like Brighton Beach, Bensonhurst and Sheepshead Bay.
While the Georgian eateries in Manhattan are more upscale with higher prices and smaller portions, you can eat well in Brooklyn’s Georgian restaurants for under $30 per person (minus drinks). The places in our list have one thing in common, besides serving Georgian food: they all cater to a primarily Georgian- and Russian-speaking customer base.
Here are 10 of our favorite Georgian restaurants in Brooklyn.
ASSAIA
Assaia is one of the newest Georgian restaurants in Brooklyn. Opened in December 2021, Assaia is a larger and more upscale version of Toné Café, which the same owners opened back in 2014. The main dining room is decorated with paintings by Georgian artist Hatu Chkheidze. Her brother Nick and his wife Eka make up two-thirds of the partners, who can now claim the largest Georgian restaurant in Bath Beach.
As far as the food goes, you can expect the same giant khinkali and soft bread that…
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