"Kashkar Cafe isn’t just the best place to eat in Brighton Beach, it’s one of our top 25 restaurants in the entire city. This Uyghur-Uzbek restaurant serves life-affirming, lamb-centric food, in a curtained space that feels like a refuge. Even the fluorescent lighting is oddly comforting. Eat some reassuringly soft hand-pulled noodles, fried to the slightest char, a plate of petite dumplings in a fat-accented broth that could probably cure the plague, and kebabs that have us looking up synonyms for the word “succulent.”" - molly fitzpatrick, willa moore, kenny yang, carina finn koeppicus