Our Take on Hangar Bar
The square outside belongs to the leaning Gabriadze clock tower and its puppet theater crowds. Inside number 20 Shavteli, model airplanes hang from the ceiling and the volume tracks whatever match the big screen carries that night.
In Your Pocket's Tbilisi guide files The Hangar as the city's reliable Irish pub: international rugby and football on the big screen, key club games, Guinness alongside international and local taps.
The kitchen runs a long menu of Irish, British, American, and Italian dishes with daily specials, and Restaurant Guru reviewers keep returning to the portion sizes.
Reading the Room
Dark wood, flags, and screens angled so no stool misses the play. The airplane models overhead give the room its name and its only decoration policy.
In summer the terrace opens onto the square with the Gabriadze Tower in view, and In Your Pocket notes live music joins it in the warm months.
The Menu, Edited
Who Shows Up, and When
This is Tbilisi's expat living room on fixture nights: teachers, NGO staff, and traveling fans wedged in with locals who want the rugby. Quiet afternoons read more like a neighborhood pub.
Six Nations weekends and Champions League nights fill the room before kickoff. Arrive 30 minutes early or stand.
The Word on the Street
- In Your Pocket lists the big screen rugby, football, and key club fixtures as the standing program.
- Restaurant Guru reviewers highlight sizeable portions at prices that do not sting.
- Madloba.info logs the model airplane ceiling and the mixed expat and local crowd.
- The summer terrace onto the Gabriadze Tower square draws as many reviews as the sport.
Go, or Skip
- Expats and travelers who need the match with commentary in English
- Groups that want screens, taps, and a real kitchen in one room
- Avoid if you came to Tbilisi for natural wine and quiet; this is the other thing
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