Wine Restaurant

Pheasant’s Tears

Appears in
Tasting Georgia: A Food and Wine Journey in the Caucasus

By Carla Capalbo

Published 2017

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In the glass-walled dining room at Pheasant’s Tears restaurant, a supra dinner is taking place. Dishes of delicious food cover the long table from end to end, with more appearing from chef Gia Rokashvili’s tiny kitchen all the time. The table is full of guests – Georgians and foreigners – and the wines are flowing, as they do here. Two women and three men sitting together at the table start to sing, a cappella, and the dissonant harmonies of a medieval Georgian polyphonic chant electrify the room. When it ends there’s rapturous applause as the feast continues.