The upstairs dining room at Aromati — cane chairs, tufted leather, burgundy walls

Murray Hill · Manhattan

AROMATI

Café  ✦  Wine Bar

Two floors on East 34th Street where Georgian cooking,
natural wine and serious coffee share one table.

Explore the Kitchen The Wine Bar
40.7447° N — 73.9825° W Scroll 103 E 34th St, NY 10016
01 The Idea

A corner of Tbilisi, poured into a Manhattan morning.

Burgundy wall, organic mirror and cane chairs inside Aromati
Upstairs Burgundy, cane & oak

Aromati, from the Georgian word for aroma, is a bi-level café and wine bar in Murray Hill, where American coffee culture meets the oldest food and wine traditions in Europe.

Downstairs, an open kitchen and coffee bar move at the pace of the city: espresso pulled, matcha whisked, khachapuri blistering in the oven. Upstairs, the room slows down into burgundy walls, tufted leather, cane and oak, and low globe light, a dining room and wine bar built for long evenings.

  • GroundCafé & open kitchen
  • AboveDining room & wine bar

Georgia has been making wine for eight thousand years. We think it pairs beautifully with a Tuesday in New York.

Golden hour light across the window tables at Aromati
Golden hour East 34th Street
2Floors — café below,
wine bar above
8,000Years of Georgian
winemaking behind the list
10016In the heart of
Murray Hill
02 The Kitchen

Bread, cheese, and broth: the holy trinity of the Georgian table.

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Adjaruli khachapuri, cheese boat with egg yolk and butter

Adjaruli Khachapuri

The signature cheese boat: molten suluguni, a bright egg yolk, a knob of butter. Stir, tear, dip.

Khinkali, Georgian soup dumplings

Khinkali

Hand-pleated soup dumplings. Pick it up by the knot and sip the broth first, that’s the rule.

Imeruli khachapuri, round cheese-filled bread

Imeruli Khachapuri

The everyday classic from Imereti, a golden round of bread sealed around fresh cheese.

Badrijani, eggplant rolls with walnut paste and pomegranate

Badrijani

Eggplant rolled around spiced walnut paste, jeweled with pomegranate.

Pkhali board with mchadi corn cakes

Pkhali & Mchadi

Beet, spinach and eggplant pâtés with herbs and walnut, served with warm griddled corn cakes.

Shotis puri, canoe-shaped Georgian bread with ajika

Shoti’s Puri & Ajika

Canoe-shaped bread from the tone oven, served with fiery red ajika.

Tolma, grape leaves with matsoni sauce

Tolma

Grape leaves wrapped tight, finished with cool matsoni, Georgian yogurt.

Layered honey cake with pistachio

Honey Cake

Layer upon layer of caramelized honey crumb, crushed pistachio on top.

…and salads, stews,
toast & sweets
in between.

Come Hungry
03 The Café

Downstairs runs on espresso.

The ground floor is a proper New York coffee bar — lattes worth photographing, matcha in three colors, and a pastry case that empties by noon.

Tiramisu latte in a branded Aromati cup
Tiramisu Lattemascarpone cream, cocoa, a ladyfinger on top
Maple syrup iced latte with cold foam
Maple Syrup Iced Lattetopped with silky maple cold foam
Three fruit matcha lattes held in a stack
Fruit Matchasstrawberry, mango & blueberry, layered over ice
Flat white with rosetta latte art
The Classicsflat whites & cappuccinos, poured properly
04 The Wine Bar

Eight thousand years in the glass.

Georgia is the cradle of wine — fermented in qvevri, clay vessels buried in the earth, the same way for two hundred centuries. Upstairs, our list leans into that history: skin-contact ambers, inky Saperavi, natural bottles you won’t find twice in this neighborhood.

Saperavi and a cheese and charcuterie board at Aromati
Upstairs Boards, bottles & the long way home
  1. I
    Amber

    Skin-contact whites — textured, tea-like, made for the table.

  2. II
    Saperavi

    The great Georgian red — dark, inky, built for khachapuri.

  3. III
    Qvevri

    Clay-buried fermentation. UNESCO-listed, eight millennia old.

Evenings, second floor

Stay for a Bottle
05 The Room

Cane, leather, burgundy — and light that lingers.

The full dining room — banquette, mirrors, pendant globes
Tables set with wine glasses beneath pendant lights
A bottle of Saperavi with an Aromati wine bag
Georgian salad with walnut dressing and pomegranate
Cappuccino with heart latte art
Strawberry and goat cheese salad
The Aromati storefront on East 34th Street
06 Visit

Come say hello,
Murray Hill.

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