Introduction
For a plov lunch or a big family table, this issue gathers places where plov is the main dish. Plov is cooked in a kazan from rice, meat, carrots and onions. Tashkent, wedding, Samarkand plov and zigir osh differ in their ingredients and in how they are cooked.
There are 17 places: 5 in Shaykhantahur and 2 each in Yunusabad, Mirzo Ulugbek, Yashnabad, Yakkasaray, Uchtepa and Mirobod. Besides plov, the menus include mastava, shashlik and manti.
The selection drew on what Tashkent food writers publish; the places were checked for winter 2026. Swipe on, pick a district, and before you go, check when plov is served and whether it comes with kazy, a horse-meat sausage.
Updated October 22 · 4 new places
How we choose. Joy Top editors pick the places by menu, prices and guest reviews. Places in this issue: 16.
Камолон ОШ Drujba
Why it is here
Several kinds of plov come together in one set here: the menu has a combo of five. Besides wedding, zigir and chungara plov, the kitchen makes choyxona plov and oshi sofi. Have achichuk and kazy with your plov, and order katlama patir or halim for the table.
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
Beshqozon
Ифтихор
Why it is here
The choice goes beyond wedding and choyxona plov: there is also zigir osh, devzira osh and tovuqli osh made with chicken. Kazy, extra meat or quail eggs (bedana tuxum) are added to a portion separately. Apart from plov, they bake samsa with meat, with chicken and with vegetables.
RegistanOsh
Паркент
Why it is here
Samarkand plov here is the work of oshpaz Dilmurod. The menu has a full portion and a 0.7 portion, plus sets for two and for three to share. Plov comes with achichuk with cucumber, radish and chimchi; kazy or pay can be added on the side.
What to order
Лаган сет
372,500 soum
Сет Плов на троих
325,000 soum
Сет Плов №4 Pepsi
301,000 soum
Сет Плов на двоих
230,000 soum
SamOsh
блок
Why it is here
Samarkand osh shares the menu with home-style samsa. Plov is ordered as a full or a 0.7 portion, with meat or pay taken separately. There is more than achichuk to go with it: chalop, anzur onion, radish and suzma, and kazy and quail eggs among the extras.
What to order
Минеральная вода Borjomi
21,000 soum
Энергетический напиток Red Bull
20,000 soum
Иброхим Бек
Мукими
Why it is here
The reason to come for plov is the Samarkand zigir osh, which Plov Patrol tasted in September and October 2026. Start with mastava or shurpa. If the table wants different dishes, there are also manti, kazan kabob and beef shashlik in chunks.
What to order
Шашлык из говядины кусковой
64,000 soum
Молотый
48,000 soum
Шурпа
47,000 soum
Куриные крылышки
36,000 soum
Plov City
Янгибозор
Why it is here
Samarkand and wedding plov come both as single portions and as sets. Their payli osh is on the Potrebitel.Uz community list. With plov there is achichuk, kazy and anzur onion, and to round out the meal — mastava, meat samsa and minced-meat shashlik.
What to order
Самаркандский плов комплект
85,000 soum
Свадебный плов порц комплект
85,000 soum
Чайханский плов
66,000 soum
Самаркандский плов
66,000 soum
Zig'ir osh payshanba
Кушбеги
Why it is here
Zigir plov here is cooked in linseed oil and served on its own or as a set. It comes with achichuk with basil and Samarkand bread, which is also sold by the portion. Pay and quail eggs are among the extras, and gurob goes well with the salads.
What to order
Зигир плов комплект
67,500 soum
Зигир плов
53,500 soum
Мясо
27,000 soum
Салат Аччик-чучук с базиликом
20,000 soum
Museum of Palove
Катта Дархон
Why it is here
Regional plovs are served in small kazans here: bayram osh, Kokand chungara osh and Bukhara oshi sofi. Samarkand plov comes the same way. Add sukok samsa with greens or pumpkin for the table, and finish with pakhlava.
What to order
ПЛОВ САМАРКАНДСКИЙ В КАЗАНЧИКЕ
590,000 soum
КУКОН ЧУНГАРА ОШ В КАЗАНЧИКЕ
590,000 soum
БАЙРАМ ОШ В КАЗАНЧИКЕ
490,000 soum
Meat Assortment
490,000 soum
King Plov
Джурджани
Why it is here
Two plovs to choose from — wedding and choyxona — each as a regular or a 0.7 portion, on its own or as a set. You can add extra meat, and order kazy, dumba fat, dolma or quail eggs alongside. With plov there is achichuk, katyk, suzma and chirokchi salad. It suits a family lunch or a meal with friends.
What to order
Choyxona osh komplekt
65,000 soum
To'y oshi komplekt
65,000 soum
Choyxona osh komplekt 0.7
63,000 soum
To'y oshi komplekt 0.7
63,000 soum
Anjir Milli Taomlari
Шота Руставели
Why it is here
A foreign travel blogger named the plov here a Tashkent favourite; on the menu it is listed as wedding plov. Next to it are norin with horse meat or beef, halim, and manti both steamed and fried. A separate section is given to Uyghur dishes: Uyghur lagman and fried lagman. Hot dishes include kazan kebab and dum kazan kebab, soups include mastava and kuza soup. Good for lunch with friends.
What to order
Бифштекс
55,000 soum
Нарын с кониной
48,000 soum
Кусочный шашлык
31,000 soum
Молотый шашлык
26,000 soum
Boboy Uzbek
Батыра Закирова
Why it is here
Three plovs are on the menu at once — regular, festive and Samarkand — so one table can compare several. With plov, take olot somsa or flaky somsa, and from the national dishes — norin, halim and kazan kebab. Soups have their own house section: mastava, chuchvara and lentil. It works with children: they have their own menu.
What to order
Плов
82,000 soum
Лагман по-уйгурски
78,000 soum
Оливье
76,000 soum
Куриный суп
58,000 soum
Tandiriy
Укчи
Why it is here
The tandir here is used for more than meat and samsa: corn and vegetables are cooked in it too. A foreign travel guide singles the place out for its tandir lamb and samsa and its wedding plov. There is plenty of samsa: alat samsa by 4 or 8 pieces, with lamb, chicken, potato, and a meat assortment. There are five kinds of manti, including salmon and pumpkin, and among the unusual dishes — dolma with cherries and with buckwheat.
Центр плова Chustiy
New11Б
Why it is here
Each of the three plovs comes as a regular or a 0.7 portion, so one lunch can easily cover two kinds. With plov there is achichuk, suzma, anzur onion and chirokchi salad. Before plov you can have mastava, and for those who want something else — lyulya kebab and lamb, beef or chicken shashlik. Easy with children: there is a kids' room.
What to order
Плов сет на четверых
243,000 soum
Плов сет на двоих
124,000 soum
Плов сет
64,000 soum
Бухарский плов
62,000 soum
Навбахор
NewБунёдкор
Why it is here
This is not a restaurant but the chaikhana of the Katta Navbahor mahalla, the way old Tashkent remembers it: a pool and plane trees. Regulars recall that their fathers and grandfathers came here and write that the atmosphere is the same as forty years ago. At lunch it serves plov and kazan-kabob, and groups still order a kazan and cook the osh themselves.
Samdi osh
NewКурган
Why it is here
Samdi used to stand by the road on the Small Ring Road, and Tashkent's plov lovers drove out for its Samarkand osh. A couple of years ago it moved into a courtyard in a mahalla in Mirzo-Ulugbek district: there is no restaurant sign, and guests write that they sit "not in a café but at someone's home". The plov here is Samarkand-style, cooked on zigir (flaxseed) oil.
Payli Osh at Chorsu
NewWhy it is here
Payli osh is one of Tashkent's old plovs. Here it is cooked by oshpaz Abdurashid aka — according to the city's plov-lovers community, he has been at the kazan for 30 years. It is a self-service canteen by the former GUM at Chorsu: few seats and no interior to speak of, but the set lunch with salad, bread and a pot of tea costs about 30,000 sum.
