Uzbekistan

The very first vegan café in Tashkent focuses on organic products and offers a great choice of dishes to eat in and take away. Breakfast, salads and soups, well-stocked bowls, main courses and desserts with bright colors and flavors... This new kind of café has become a real cultural center and a landmark for foreign travelers. Concerts, film screenings, poetic and musical evenings and meetings attract young people who are eager for exchanges, new ideas, openness to the world and different visions.

The Jipek Joli Hotel has opened this lovely restaurant where you can taste the karakalpak specialties including the beshbarmak le jugara gurtuk which are noodle and beef dishes that cook for a long time in a broth. They are usually served with shorpa, the cooking stock. It is a unique opportunity to discover an aspect of Karakalpake culture. Also the great classics of Uzbek cuisine for lunch: chachlyks and plov in the lead! Like the hotel, the restaurant enjoys a not unpleasant touch of decoration.

In a "suburb" of Noukous, Shadli aul, this fish restaurant is appreciated by the locals. You can eat there either on the terrace, under the awning in summer, or indoors, the must is to reserve a small dark cube where you can meet with friends. You will eat traditional karakalpak fish dishes such as karma, a noodle and fish dish that cooks for 3-4 hours. You can also taste the famous local Qarataw vodka, famous even in Russia! But don't overuse the fish anyway, which grows in pesticides..