Taste Of Georgia
“My vegetarian husband loved the mixed vegetables, and the several variations that included eggplant.”
“For that alone, I will return., By the way…the bread was krispy and warm, but soft inside.”
“The advantage of getting your khachapuri at a bakery is the superior bread/dough that covers the cheese.”
Taste Of Georgia
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Bike Parking: Yes
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We stopped in shortly before closing for some cheese bread. It was round and only had cheese. The best way to describe it would be a sauce-less pizza with the cheese baked into the crust.
I also tried a small blintz stuffed with a chicken organ pâté. (I wasn't sure if it was heart of liver).
They have a delicious assortment of cakes and salads as well. Note that it's a cash only business.
Taste Of Georgia is a little place on Kings Hwy nestled in a very ethnic part of Brooklyn. With many other similar ethnic places around you would expect this place to blend in. However, this place really separates itself with that home-style feel.
With it's different varieties of bread, desserts and other miscellaneous dinner items it's definitely worth stopping by.
The ACHMA is a must try.
A friend and I sat in Kelly Park trying to suss out just what made the Georgian cheese so appealing. First, there's a pleasant lack of anything sweet. Instead the dominant flavors are salt and sourness. Unlike in feta, these are in harmony – one doesn't feel like a horse given a piece of salt to lick.
The most famous application of this cheese is the khachapuri – which elevates cheesy bread to an art. There are oval, boat-shaped khachapuris, multi-layered khachpuris and kinds that add eggs and potato to the already heavy mixture.
We went with a penovani khachpuri (simply called a square khachapuri on the English menu, I had to do a fair amount of Googling to figure this out at home) and took it into the park. In Gerogia this would just be a snack, but at $5.50 this kept up satisfied for more than three hours. The advantage of getting your khachapuri at a bakery is the superior bread/dough that covers the cheese.
A couple bites of flaky, airy crust wipes away any memories of the superfluously similar soggy bureks that dominate Balkan cuisine. This is food so delicate that a 1,000 calories can appear to be only a slightly decadent repast.
Also available here are some incredible-looking bulging baguettes, walnut-dominated salads, eggplant rolls, dumplings for at-home baking, and a rotating assortment of entrees. The staff behind the coutner is English-speaking, friendly and willing to help Caucasian neophytes navigate the menu. (Although it's probably best to keep any pro-Russian opinions to yourself.)
For residents of North Brooklyn and Manhattan, this is a long journey for a place with no seats. On the Q train it might even seem like going straight to Tbilisi would have been a more convenient option. But on that playground, my friend and I decided that cheese like this is worth the journey.
Without Yelp, I would have dismissed this bakery and walk past it without even glancing twice but since I was getting my car inspected around the area, I decided to check this ethnic bakery out.
Located in the heart of Midwood in Brooklyn, this delightful bakery really does an amazing job serving specialties from their homeland, Georgia.
As I walked in, I immediately noticed their fresh bread neatly lined up on the rack. Behind the rack I saw a man kneading dough with his hands and not with a machine — a definite plus!
I decided to go for their baguettes called Shoti ($2.50) and boy was it good! When I ordered it, the bread was still warm. I tried it immediately and it was perfect. It was crunchy on the outside but oh so moist and chewy on the inside with a slight touch of salt. It was so good that even when I heated it back up in my oven, after putting half of it in my freezer, it still comes out as good as the day I brought it.
I also ordered their Achma ($4), which is a Georgian Cheese Lasagna and oh my god was it absolutely delicious!!! Oozing with rich feta melted cheese and slices of pasta, it was just perfect. Let's just say, I didn't care how much calories it had, all I cared about was how good it was. If I had to describe my comfort food, this would be it.
I highly recommend this tiny bakery and think it's certainly worth the trip especially if you're nearby in the neighborhood.
I'm not gonna attempt to try and spell the appropriate names for the food here but if you don't speak Russian you'll be just fine.
The ladies are always very nice and you can just ask away.
With that out of the way… The varieties of bread there are delicious, the cheese bread is amazing and I would eat it everyday if I wasn't so confident it's terrible for me. The shoti bread is awesome. Crispy and crunchy on the outside but doughy and soft inside.
Don't be afraid, go in and ask questions.
Every summer Badri takes off for his home country, shuttering Georgian Bread, forcing fans of Khachapuri and Shotipuri breads to find alternative options. Taste of Georgia should be the best option for Georgian food addicts in dealing with the emergency!
They have all kinds of bread: the Shoti Puri (long, gun shaped), Lavash (round, multiple textures from crispy to chewy), and the Khachapuri (cheese filled, in either puff pastry or round bread). The bread is often flying off the shelves and one has to wait 10 minutes or so to get one's hands on a new batch. So, you know that it's hot, fresh, and tasteful.
Carboholic that I am, I've engaged in many impulse purchases in addition to the bread (not simply the spinach / eggplant with walnut salads, or the Adjika: red pepper paste). A couple of months back, they were carrying walnut cookies (don't know the name) which I got addicted to, and this weekend a multi-layer pastry with walnuts and cream. Despite my efforts at prying the name of the pastry, and a description, out of the lady all I got was 'cream filling'. Recognizing the language barrier (you can't hold that against them), it would help to have English names. I say that because it was one of the best pastries I've had lately. Admittedly, the rustic design and construction can't compare to the elegance of a Parisian Pastry, but its strength lied in its simplicity and perfect execution. I have no shame in admitting that I was licking my fingers after finishing it!
However, I still haven't figured out how many parties happen in the Georgian community for people to be picking up loaves and loves of the Lavash bread? Yesterday, two ladies took 12 of those, and frankly if I've ever seen a single bread large enough to feed an entire family – it would be this one!!
The hachapuri is huge (the size of an individual pizza!), soft, pillowy, with just the right amount of cheese.