Have you tried everything in Kutaisi?

Try three walnut-bound veggie pkhali at once — this vegan dish was born in Kutaisi during hard times, not on a menu trend.

At a family-run khinklis sakhli you order by how many dumplings you can handle, not by the plate.

Bite into the walnut-and-grape-juice 'Georgian Snickers' every grandmother insists her string is the best.

Sip the original 1887 soda from a stall tucked inside Green Bazaar, still syrup-mixed on the spot.

Locals down this 60-80 proof grape spirit before 9 AM and call it digestion aid — refusing questions their distilling skills.

Take it up to Besik Gabashvili Park in late afternoon, then spin on the vintage Ferris wheel above the trees.

Never drink before the toastmaster's cue — interrupting a tamada is said to shame your whole family.

Grab a scarf from the entrance basket before entering — forgetting one instantly outs you as a tourist.

Drop a genuine "Madloba" (mad-lo-ba) after every kindness — it lands better than any tip.

Squeeze into Kutaisi's top expat-local hangout for craft beer, language exchange, and a rowdy quiz round.

Fall in with the informal jogging crowd along Rioni embankment before the city fully wakes up.

Find any flat patch of pavement where kids play until dark and ask to join — football is Kutaisi's real religion.