Bolero bakery Tbilisi

Pastry for the whole city

Maia from Tbilisi

About me I am a linguist passionate about photography and I love uncovering my city’s hidden gems and sharing the tastiest dishes made with love. I've lived in Tbilisi since birth and taking up photography as a hobby has enabled me to explore unique places and numerous pieces of street art around the city. Why Tbilisi? In Tbilisi, you’ll find a blend of “skyscrapers” and M...
"The most spectacular thing I noticed here is the delicacy the shop owners handled each slice with while placing them into the takeaway box. "

“This is where the whole city comes to purchase pastry”, I’ve been told. Knowing how rapidly and thoughtlessly Tbilisians catch up to ever-emerging, fresher, and fresher trends, I was initially pretty skeptical about a pastry shop called Bolero.

But, as always, my stomach won over and I decided to give Bolero a shot. Walking in (back then it was just a garage shop, but now they have a fancy new location and fancy new glass fridges), I spotted all the classics I grew up savouring, the leftovers from the Soviet era: the classic Medok — pastry with condensed milk cream, choux and eclair with the mushiest cream I’d ever tasted, variations of chocolate or fruit cakes… Whatever your inner child’s stomach desires, if you grew up in a post-Soviet country. 

The most spectacular thing I noticed there was not only the diversity of the pastries blasted straight from my childhood, but the delicacy with which shop owners handled each slice while placing them into the takeaway box. 

So, if you're done marveling at the monument of Vazha-Pshavela and you're up for a sugary snack, you can go a little uphill and enjoy all the pastry classics, the taste of which no other pastry shop in the city can offer.

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About me I am a linguist passionate about photography and I love uncovering my city’s hidden gems and sharing the tastiest dishes made with love. I've lived in Tbilisi since birth and taking up photography as a hobby has enabled me to explore unique places and numerous pieces of street art around the city. Why Tbilisi? In Tbilisi, you’ll find a blend of “skyscrapers” and Milan-style streets amid Soviet-era dwellings and ancient buildings, just waiting to be explored. As the country is a bridge between Asia and Europe, I love the variety of cultures and cuisines the cit...

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