Introduction
When a cold day calls for soup at lunch or dinner, this issue helps you choose between shurpa, mastava, mashkhurda and kuza shurpa. Shurpa is a soup with meat and large-cut vegetables, often made with lamb. Mastava is thicker: rice, meat and vegetables, usually cut small.
There are 16 places. Shurpa is on the menu at 12 of them, mastava at 9. Shaykhantahur and Yakkasaray have 4 places each, Mirzo Ulugbek another 3.
The selection drew on what Tashkent food writers publish; the places were checked for winter 2026. Swipe to the soup you want: for shurpa, ask which meat is in it and whether it comes on the bone; for mastava, whether katyk or sour cream is served on the side.
How we choose. Joy Top editors pick the places by menu, prices and guest reviews. Places in this issue: 16.
Paxta ko'cha shashlik
Джанон
Why it is here
The menu is short, with two soups — shurpa and khash. Shurpa is among the dishes guests mention most, together with achichuk salad. With the soup, take suzma and onion, and for a main — chunk, minced or liver shashlik. The café only works in the daytime, so it is a lunch place, not a dinner one.
What to order
Шурпа
45,000 soum
Шашлык из печени
28,000 soum
Молотый шашлык
28,000 soum
Кусковой шашлык
28,000 soum
У Влада
Мавляна Риёзи
Why it is here
For a cold day there are three first courses here: khash, borscht and meatball soup. Residents in the Potrebitel.Uz community ranking call the khash the reason to come in winter. After the soup, take the fried carp — it made a residents' list of 25 places — or lamb shashlik on the rib. Easy with children: there is a playground.
Камолон ОШ Drujba
Why it is here
Beyond plov there is a whole soup section here: oxtail soup, ilik shurpa, spicy soup, mastava, chuchvara and khash. With soup, take katlama patir, and for salad — achichuk or chimchi. For something more filling there is halim and beshbarmak. Easy with children: there is a kids' room and a playground.
What to order
Cho'ng'ara osh kg
448,000 soum
5 xil osh kamplekt
353,000 soum
Choyxona osh kg
345,000 soum
Чайханский плов кг (ночной)
345,000 soum
Ченсон
Сарбон
Why it is here
The soups come from different kitchens: Korean beef soup, tom yum with shrimp, trout ukha, solyanka and borscht. For a cold day there is also a consommé the menu calls khash, plus cream soups — pumpkin, mushroom and lentil. From the Korean section, take beef he or steamed dried carp with your soup. Easy with children: there is a kids' room and a kids' menu.
What to order
MEAT MIX # 3
630,000 soum
MEAT MIX # 1
630,000 soum
MEAT MIX # 2
550,000 soum
SOGOGI TIM
385,000 soum
Шурва № 1
обводная улица Нурафшан
Why it is here
Shurpa is the main thing, but for a cold day the menu has other hot-broth dishes too: mastava, chuchvara and manpar. There is also shilpildoq, and for something more filling — nukhatshurak and norin. For mains — manti, lagman and tushonka. Open until midnight, so you can come for shurpa late in the evening.
Кафе Полёт
Авиасозлар
Why it is here
Kuksi is served cold, and for a cold day the same section has hot Korean soups: galbitang, kimchi jjigae, puktyay and yukgaejang. With soup you can take pigodi, and for starters — kimchi, fish he and carrot-cha. For a main there is dolsot bibimbap and bulgogi. The café opens at 10:00 and serves breakfast.
What to order
Пулькоги
135,000 soum
Таккоги покым
103,000 soum
Мясо по-китайски
88,000 soum
Телятина с грибами
88,000 soum
Иброхим Бек
Мукими
Why it is here
Shurpa and mastava are the Uzbek side of the soup section, next to borscht, mixed solyanka, lentil soup and green shchi with meatballs. For noodle lovers there is meatball and noodle soup and chicken noodle soup. After soup, kazan kabob or beef shashlik in chunks, with kazy and yakhna for the table. For a big group there is a large hall.
What to order
Шашлык из говядины кусковой
64,000 soum
Молотый
48,000 soum
Шурпа
47,000 soum
Куриные крылышки
36,000 soum
Bukhara Compliment
Магрур
Why it is here
Mastava comes two ways here — regular and spicy — and the menu also has shurpa, chicken soup, solyanka and cheese soup. With soup, take Bukhara or alat samsa and suzma. After the soup — lamb or beef shashlik in chunks, and for a big group the shashlik platter. For a celebration there is a banquet hall.
What to order
Вагури с фри
276,000 soum
Кусковой из филе
64,000 soum
Шурпа
60,000 soum
Кусковой из баранины
55,000 soum
Sim Sim
Мукими
Why it is here
Borscht and two noodle soups — chicken and meatball — are what guests mention most, but the menu also has shurpa, mastava, solyanka and mushroom soup with vegetables. For cream-soup fans there is mushroom and lentil, and the same section has pelmeni. With soup you can take samsa and achichuk. For a family lunch there are several large halls with wood carving and ceramics.
What to order
Plov
45,000 soum
Lagman
38,000 soum
Шашлык ассорти большой
847,000 soum
Регистан
706,000 soum
Bosphorus Family
Why it is here
Turkish ezo gelin soup and tongue soup sit here next to mastava and lentil soup. After soup, kuzu tandir, lamb jiz or pide — with kashar cheese, with meat and vegetables, with spinach. They open at 08:00 and serve breakfast, with a business lunch in the daytime. Easy with children: there is a kids' room and a playground.
What to order
Кузу Тандыр
753,000 soum
Вагури
420,000 soum
Жиз из баранины
418,000 soum
Стейк рибай
325,000 soum
Tong
Бадамзар
Why it is here
The restaurant is open around the clock, so hot mastava or shurpa can be ordered deep into the night. Besides those, the soup section has solyanka, meatball soup and lentil cream soup. After soup, take lamb or beef vaguri, dolma or lyulya kabob, and for a big group — a shashlik platter for 4 or 8.
What to order
Шурпа
55,000 soum
Пельмени
53,000 soum
Мастава
45,000 soum
Окрошка
42,000 soum
Dunyo
Why it is here
Besides kaynatma, the first courses include fish shurpa, tongue soup and chuchvara. Lentil soup comes two ways — spicy and as a cream soup — and there is also pumpkin cream soup with a cheese crisp, and mushroom soup. Kazy and suzma from the salads go well with the soup. Fine for a late dinner too: the kitchen works until midnight.
What to order
Кайнатма шурпа из говядина
54,000 soum
Уйгурский лагман
48,000 soum
Баранина кусковая
36,000 soum
Говядина кусковая
36,000 soum
Хан Чапан
Уста Алима
Why it is here
Chapan soup, shurpa, mastava and khash are the hot choices for a cold day, and for something spiced there is lentil soup with spiced veal. With soup take mini somsa with meat, greens or pumpkin, or qutab with meat. After it — beshbarmak, khan's beshbarmak or kazan kabob. Good for a family lunch.
What to order
Бешбармак
210,000 soum
Казан кабоб
155,000 soum
Салат Восточное оливье
69,000 soum
Мастава
60,000 soum
Sayqal
Заргарлик
Why it is here
For a cold day the hot choices are mastava, beef shurpa and lentil soup, with achichuk salad. If you want fish after soup, there is carp and pike-perch fillet; for meat — beef jiz and minced shashlik. Residents put the Khorezm plov from here into the Potrebitel.Uz community ranking in April 2026. Families have a playground.
What to order
Сазан
128,000 soum
Жиз говядина
108,000 soum
Сан- себастьян
81,000 soum
Хрустящий баклажан
74,000 soum
Tilla
Геофизики
Why it is here
Fish shurpa is listed here as shurpa with balyk, next to kaynatma shurpa, lentil soup, chuchvara and borscht. With soup, take patir with greens or kizil patir and achichuk salad. Pastry includes gumma and kopshirma, and after soup — kaymok kabob or beef jiz.
What to order
Оилавий ассорти
500,000 soum
Шашлык Ассорти
300,000 soum
Хуроз Tilla
270,000 soum
Шур-кебаб
170,000 soum
Qanotchi
Мукими
Why it is here
At this steak-and-grill house the soups are few: mastava and oxtail shurpa. After soup — beef tenderloin steak, T-bone in butter or the chef's lamb rack, with corn and country-style potatoes. Starters include lamb 'seeds' and pachaksay. Good for a family dinner.
What to order
Тибон в сливочном масле
754,000 soum
Бон-филе Канотчи
607,000 soum
Стейк бон-филе
293,000 soum
Гамбургер Канотчи
168,500 soum
