The best Uzbek restaurants Boukhara

It is more a teahouse than a restaurant, but if you are cooking a tasty plov at lunch time, you might as well come and enjoy it. The interior of the restaurant is splendid: the traditional wooden architecture has been entirely decorated by local craftsmen, whose many products are displayed everywhere and for sale. Throughout the day: pastries, spiced tea and Turkish coffee. For lunch, traditional salads and plov (it is best to order in the morning to ensure a table). A good plan !

The restaurant lives up to its name: you lunch or dine under a beautiful iwan supported by its wooden columns, with its niches and stucco carvings and its wooden ceiling. It is nicely restored, and the volume offers an appreciable freshness during the hot summer days. As for the rest, you can taste a home cooking of excellent quality, the plov being the star of course, but there are many other nuggets to discover. Save a little room for the desserts, which are rather well done and are not drowned in cream as too often.

The restaurant is located in an old house in the Jewish quarter, and to sit in the courtyard, under the iwan supported by its venerable wooden columns, or to let your gaze be lost in the stucco decorations of the walls and niches is a moment of happiness... We let ourselves be interrupted with pleasure by the waiters circulating with their hands full of dishes each as appetizing as the other: the Bukhari specialties are here declined to perfection. It's fresh, local and homemade. Book in advance, the courtyard is quickly full.

Above his cutlery, Ikromov opened this charming restaurant in 2019, which is a little higher up and has large windows offering beautiful views of the old stones of Bukhara. The setting is impeccable: well-arranged tables and neat traditional decoration, with a space that can accommodate a group but is more suited to individuals. Cooking is flawless: Bukhari and Uzbek specialties are very well made and served in generous portions, it's fast, tasty and cheap. Excellent address.

Two hundred meters east of the liab-i-khaouz, this three-storey tchaikhana, the last one offering beautiful views of the city, offers a simple and varied home cooking, including the main Uzbek specialties such as plov, chachlyks, mantys and raw vegetable salads, but also the specialty of Bukhara: the djiz in particular (on order) is very successful. In terms of atmosphere, tourists and locals mix in a good-natured atmosphere. It's a bit noisy but if you can find a place on the terrace it will be perfect.