Toné Café – Georgian Bread Bakery & Authentic Cuisine 🥗☕️🥧

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“Toné Cafe”- The Georgian Authentic Cuisine and fresh-baked bread “Shotis Puri” in a traditional clay Tone.

“If you’re in Brighton Beach and are able to consume gluten without causing your intestines to unionize, we simply see no reason to avoid Toné Café—a calm Georgian spot on Neptune Avenue named for the big circular clay oven that bakes the restaurant’s puri.

Every meal at Toné Café should involve something baked in said clay oven, which functions in the same way as a tandoor does. If you need to narrow down the list to one choice, make it the adjaruli khachapuri. This boat-shaped flatbread has a center overflowing with molten farmer’s cheese, a sunny yolk, and a thick sliver of butter that melts so fast it looks like it’s running away.

In addition to their small dining room, Toné Café also sells cakes and pastries in their bakery next door. Unless you’re short on time, we’d suggest having a sit-down meal in the restaurant over the quicker grab-and-go approach. That way you can try all of the menu’s highlights–including thick-skinned khinkali, Georgian orange wine, and fizzy tarragon soda that tastes like a piece of licorice after a spa day.

Toné Café’s nap-inducing Georgian dishes are much better suited for a post-beach meal rather than a pre-beach excursion. (The restaurant is about a 20-minute walk from the boardwalk, FYI.) If you fall asleep on the shore and unfamiliar 8-year-olds cover you in sand, don’t say we didn’t warn you.”

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HANNAH ALBERTINE