Men with sausages attack vegan restaurant Rowdies throw meat into veggie dishes at Tbilisi counterculture spot

Thugs wearing sausage necklaces and brandishing kebabs stormed a vegan cafe in the historic old city of Tblisi and threw grilled meat into diners' vegetarian dinners.

The men — reportedly more than a dozen far-right extremists — began brawling with the patrons and staff of the Kiwi Cafe, according to Radio Liberty's account of Sunday's incident in the Georgian capital. The melee spilled onto the street where neighbors joined the fray, some on the side of the vegans and others reinforcing the carnivores.

In a Facebook page statement, the Kiwi Cafe described the attackers as "neo-Nazis" and said "they pulled out some grilled meat, sausages, and fish and started eating them and throwing them at us, and finally they started to smoke.... They were just trying to provoke our friends and disrespect us."

Police finally arrived, but no arrests were made. The meat men had already fled.

The Kiwi Cafe is a trendy, alternative spot frequented by foreigners and members of the LGBT community.

It was not clear if the attack was a "mess with the vegans" stunt that got out of hand, or if was a deliberate attempt to do harm to a counterculture, Western-friendly restaurant by Georgian ultra-nationalists.

In 2013, violent threats against gay activists in Tbilisi forced the cancellation of a gay-pride parade in the Georgian capital.