I absolutely love this Georgian restaurant! It's a small and cozy spot, so I'd recommend making a reservation since seating is limited. The atmosphere is warm and inviting, and the service is genuinely friendly. Our favorite dishes were the Adjaruli, cauliflower with walnut sauce, and lamb stew--all were incredibly flavorful and well-prepared. The portions are generous and great for sharing among four people. We spent around $30 per person before tip, which felt like great value for the quality of food. I'll definitely be coming back!

A nice Georgian restaurant with many of the classics that the cuisine has become known for in the city. Service was good, attentive and helpful our food, wine, and water without getting stuffy at all. Decor feels very west village with bits of Georgian specific decoration around, a good place for a group of friends or a somewhat casual date. We got the appetizer plate because it is frankly too hard to make decisions in a large group and everything on it was honestly really tasty. Their homemade cheese is really good, super milk and lactic acid forward and frankly miles ahead of most restaurants serving bland burrata with bread. The adjaruli khachapuri is the classic and done well here with fluffy but crisp bread and a satisfying but heavy center. We also got the Ubani special and megruli khachapuri which felt very reminiscent of, and apologies now for the simplification, a good bean quesadilla and a good cheese quesadilla respectively. Pretty good although my palate isn't really tuned to this sort of dish and I still could never imagine ordering and eating one of these on my own. The cauliflower with walnut sauce is pretty solid although I do feel like it would be even better with a crispy cauliflower as opposed to a pan roast. The chashushuli sounds simple, just slow cooked beef in tomato sauce but the sauce is just satisfyingly aromatic and savory. The beef is tender and cooked fairly well but fell to the background of the much more flavorful sauce. The Chanakhi funnily enough is kind of the reverse. The dish description is a long list of ingredients and application but the resulting sauce itself is just kind of mild and anemic compared to the chashushuli. The meat though was just quite a bit more savory and juicy; if I could have the chashushuli sauce and the chankhi meat, I'd be a happy camper. The khinkali meat was really intensely savory and juicy, really quite good although the dumpling skin at the top of the twist was underdone by virtue of its thickness. I suppose this is technically a solvable problem by just eating the pouch portion of the dumpling but that just seems wasteful and I'd really rather see that a restaurant not serve underdone dough. An absolutely massive stinker of a dish though was the chicken in pomegranate sauce. Maybe this is how it's traditionally made but the pomegranate sauce felt thin and watery, a bit tart and sweet but lacking in savoriness and texture. The chicken itself was also overdone, so much so that my friend considered it inedibly dry. Thankfully the honey cake and napoleon were both satisfying. The honey cake was tender and sweet but had a noticeable amount of honey flavor and the napoleon was crisp with nicely defined layers. Overall food here was pretty solid but the problems we had were deeply unpleasant. Do get the breads and appetizers but the main dishes were just too inconsistent to put this as a strong recommendation.

A nice place for a night out! I'll start with the negatives. We arrived 5 minutes before our reservation, but weren't seated until 25 minutes after. The staff pointed out our table and said we would be seated when the party was done, but took them 20 minutes to give them the check to encourage them to leave. We were seated outside and at times, it felt like they forgot about us. They ended up bringing us the wrong dish, but we ate it anyways because we weren't able to see a server for so long. It also took very long to take our order, nobody checked in if we wanted more food/drinks, and we had to flag someone down for the check. If you decide to come, make sure to get a table inside. Other than that, I thought the food was great. The khinkali especially stood out to me. We also ordered a sweet wine and loved it. It's a cute spot for a dinner with friends or a date. If you're seated inside, I would definitely recommend coming!

Great place, great staff, great service, great food, great wines. Can't say enough good things. From the food to the many glasses of wines, this place didn't really miss the mark at any point. Highly recommend the classic khachapuri as well as the honey cake. If you find yourself here, give the amber wines a try. No matter if you prefer red or white normally, they'll have an amber for you.

Came here after dinner for some dessert as honey cake is quite hard to find in the west coast. This honey cake flavor was on point! The last two layers were a bit dry and the service took forever even though there were only 4 groups at the restaurant. That's my main complaint that they could've been more attentive but I enjoyed the honey cake and I'd come back if I was ever craving Georgian food. Honest rating is 4/5

Super cute place for dinner in the West Village, a great spot for a date since it's a bit dark inside and candle-lit. Great wine selection and had Georgian orange wine. Not that big inside, but it was easy to get a table on a weekday night. Georgian traditional salad ($15) - this was quite simple, but I did like it. It was just tomato and cucumbers, but it was very refreshing and quite flavorful with the herbs. Adjaruli Khachapuri ($17) - this is the cheese boat that I associate with Georgian food. Has cheese and they mix an egg in. Honestly, tastes exactly as it looks but it was really tasty when paired with white wine. Chanakhi ($25) - lamb stew with Georgian bread - this was quite flavorful and the lamb was tender. The bread was the same as the one with the cheese boat. Khinkhali ($18 for 6) - We tried the beef one. This was my first time trying these so I was expecting more flavor. But they taste exactly like they look - the meat wasn't dry, but it also wasn't bursting with flavor (but maybe I'm also guilty of comparing these to Chinese xiaolongbaos).

We had a great dinner at Ubani. My only regret is that we came without a reservation and ended up in the heated porch, which was mostly fine but just a little chilly when servers needed to come in and out. Service was great--very friendly and, as a relative Georgian food amateur, I appreciated the full tour of the menu we received as there's a fair amount on offer. The adjaruli khachapuri is much written about but was delicious, we genuinely could have had a second. The veal chakapuli was a great warming stewy soup on a chill night and the sour plum really brings it to the next level. Lamb Khinkali to close out the savory section was a must. The honey cake is fantastic--I don't fully know what I'm talking about so it's hard to say if it's a good version of honey cake, but it's definitely real good. We had a bottle of orange wine (the Chinebuli in the pic) that was refined and natural. Clearly a well made vintage on a very Georgian wine list, which tied the whole meal together nicely. I look forward to getting a seat indoors next time!

Under-the-radar Georgian spot with lovely minimalist decor that somehow avoided the restaurant price mark-up of both the NYC Georgian cuisine boom and the pandemic. That alone should warrant four stars! But also, the food is quite good. The Lobiani is huge, cheesy, carby, and beany--absolutely delicious. The Adjaruli Khachapuri was a tad salty, but otherwise perfectly done. The Chanakhi was a perfect stew, while the beef and lamb Khinkali were both bursting with broth and flavor. I made the mistake of getting the Honey Cake for the table, and remembered one bite in that I don't actually like Georgian honey cake that much (too dry)--but Ubani says theirs is made in-house, so that's something, right? Drink-wise, there's plenty of that Georgian amber wine to choose from at affordable prices of $14-16 per glass.