From authentic plov to modern cafes
21 restaurants

A late-night shashlik spot on Sharq Tongi Street.
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A small local kitchen for fans of traditional nakhot shorak.
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A manti house for anyone after real Samarkand manti.
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Flaky samsa in the Kokandskaya Street area — an address locals know.
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A samsa bakery on Termez Street with traditional baking.
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One of the city's best-known samsa bakeries, often called “the samsa o…
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A small shashlik house focused on charcoal-grilled meat.
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A city chaikhana in western Samarkand serving shashlik around the cloc…
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A popular shashlik house on Ayni Street.
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A well-known Samarkand shashlik house with family rooms.
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A plov house in the 8 Marta area — an everyday lunch option.
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A local plov house where everything happens in the kazan's two-hour wi…
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An oshkhona off the tourist trail where locals have lunch.
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A plov centre where osh is served not only at lunch but in the evening…
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A small plov centre on Ayni Street, known among fans of local osh.
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A neighbourhood plov centre where you can still find osh in the evenin…
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A local oshkhona that people visit for the plov and the feel of a real…
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A plov house with a short lunchtime window — for those who know when t…
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A famous plov centre on Ibn Sino Street that people travel to just for…
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One of the city's best-known spots for Samarkand plov.
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A late-night shashlik spot where locals go for hot shashlik until dawn…
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