When traveling, finding vegetarian or vegan food can be a challenge – especially if you don’t speak the language.

Nowhere is this more the case than the city of Tbilisi, Georgia. While other cities may simply be difficult for vegetarians and vegans, Georgia appears actively antagonistic to the non-meat eaters among us.

In 2016, a vegan cafe in the nation’s capital was attacked by meat-wielding nationalists who harassed guests “wearing sausages around their necks and carrying slabs of meat on skewers,” according to The Guardian.

But that was 2016. Since then, the city has become an emergent cultural hotspot, home to creatives on the cutting edge of art, music, design, and more.

As more tourists pour into Tbilisi, a growing number of vegetarian and vegan restaurants have emerged in response to the increasingly cosmopolitan populace.