Best Uzbek in Queens
The 10 best Uzbek and Bukharian restaurants in Queens, from Rego Park's 63rd Drive plov to Forest Hills' Bukharian Broadway kebabs.
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- 1Rego Park · $$ · 63 Dr-Rego Park (M R) · 92-09 63rd Drive, Rego Park, NY 11374
A long-running kosher Uzbek and Bukharian anchor of Rego Park's 63rd Drive restaurant row. Food press repeatedly names it the borough's essential Uzbek destination.
The flaky cheburek and charred lamb shashlik are why this is the first stop on any Uzbek tour of Queens.
It is kosher and always busy on 63rd Drive, so get the cheburek and lamb shashlik.
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- 2Forest Hills · $$ · 67 Av (M R) · 63-61 108th Street, Forest Hills, NY 11375
A family-owned kosher Bukharian-Jewish restaurant of 20-plus years on 108th Street's Bukharian Broadway. It is regarded as one of the top Bukharian spots in Queens.
The liver kebab is the dish regulars order before they even sit down.
You are on 108th Street's Bukharian Broadway here, so order the liver kebab that regulars swear by.
- 3Rego Park · $$ · 63 Dr-Rego Park (M R) · 63-52 Booth Street, Rego Park, NY 11374
A Glatt kosher Bukharian teahouse-style cafe just off the 63rd Drive strip. It is known for tandoor-baked lepeshka and samsa and a real tea-culture setting.
Fresh lepeshka from the tandoor with a pot of tea is Bukharian hospitality distilled.
It is closed Saturdays for Shabbat, so come for the tandoor lepeshka, samsa, and a pot of tea.
- 4Rego Park · $$ · 63 Dr-Rego Park (M R) · 94-03 63rd Drive, Rego Park, NY 11374
A halal Uzbek and Central Asian restaurant on the dense 63rd Drive row in Rego Park. Classic plov and manty come with rotating monthly specials.
The plov is rich and generous, and the monthly specials keep the regulars guessing.
It is halal with rotating monthly specials, so the beef plov and manty are the staples to start with.
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- 5Forest Hills · $$ · 67 Av (M R) · 101-15 Queens Boulevard, Forest Hills, NY 11375
A Forest Hills kosher institution blending Bukharian, Israeli, Uzbek, Turkish, and Ukrainian influences. Kebabs, pilaf, and samsa lead the menu under Cup-K supervision.
The lagman noodle soup is the kind of bowl you think about days later.
It is kosher and multi-influence, so the lagman noodle soup and samsa are the go-to order.
@stixkosherrestaurant ↗Stix Kosher Restaurant
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- 6Rego Park · $$ · 63 Dr-Rego Park (M R) · 98-98 Queens Boulevard, Rego Park, NY 11374
A halal Uzbek kebab house on Queens Boulevard with a deep 4.6-star following. It runs a full range of kebabs, plov, and dumplings and gets busy for Ramadan iftar.
The kebab platter with lamb plov is a feast that lives up to the crowds.
It is a halal kebab house that fills up for Ramadan iftar, so time your visit and order the kebab platter with lamb plov.
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- 7Rego Park · $$ · 63 Dr-Rego Park (M R) · 94-09 63rd Drive, Rego Park, NY 11374
A kosher, family-run Uzbek restaurant named for owner Yuri Moshev, from Fergana. Food bloggers love it for home-style, family-recipe cooking with its own livestock.
You taste the family recipes and the own-raised meat in every bite of the Fergana plov.
It is kosher and family-run with its own livestock, so order the Fergana-style plov.
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- 8Rego Park · $$ · 63 Dr-Rego Park (M R) · 97-13 Queens Boulevard, Rego Park, NY 11374
A Glatt kosher Bukharian steakhouse of 28 years on Queens Boulevard. It fuses Central Asian grill traditions with a steakhouse format under VHQ supervision.
The grilled lamb chops bring steakhouse precision to Central Asian fire.
It is a Glatt kosher steakhouse take on Central Asian grill, so the lamb chops are the splurge.
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- 9Forest Hills · $$ · 67 Av (M R) · 64-06 108th Street, Forest Hills, NY 11375Map ↗verified 6w ago
A kosher Bukharian restaurant on 108th Street's Bukharian Broadway. Kebabs and narin lead a BYOB, hookah-friendly room.
The narin and kebabs in a BYOB room make it an easy place to settle in for the night.
It is BYOB and hookah-friendly, so the narin and shish kebab anchor the table.
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- 10Rego Park · $$ · 63 Dr-Rego Park (M R) · 99-04 63rd Road, Rego Park, NY 11374Map ↗verified 6w ago
A kosher Bukharian, Uzbek, and Tajik bakery-restaurant hybrid in Rego Park. The lepeshka comes from a large in-house stone tandoor, alongside samsa and family-style kebabs.
The tandoor lepeshka alone is worth the trip, warm and blistered straight from the stone oven.
Do not let the name fool you, it is Bukharian and Uzbek, and the lepeshka comes straight from the in-house tandoor.