Cheburechnaya
Uzbeki restaurant · Rego Park ·
Central Asian specialties: kebabs, chebureki, plov, manti
Central Asian specialties: kebabs, chebureki, plov, manti
"Cheburechnaya is a restaurant that specializes in the Jewish food of Uzbekistan — with Russian flourishes. The food is splendidly inexpensive and includes plov (Central Asian pilaf), pastries with lamb and chicken, fist-sized manti dumplings, composed salads and bread dips, flatbreads prepared on the premises (try the parabolic cracker noni toki), and one of the city’s best collections of kebabs. These include chicken, lamb, beef, veal sweetbreads, and calves’ liver, and sometimes chunks of meat are separated by lamb tail fat to enhance succulence." - Eater Staff
"I imagine the menu’s core as charcoal kebab brochettes in the style of Uzbek restaurants such as Cheburechnaya — the skewered, grilled meats that inspired my recurring lamb-rib kebab dreams." - Robert Sietsema
"A Rego Park institution making Kosher Uzbek fare, Cheburechnaya impressed me with its kebabs: I ordered bone-in chicken and lamb ribs ($3.75 each) that were succulent, highly seasoned, and perfectly charred from the charcoal grill — I don’t think I’ve had better skewers in NYC." - Eater Staff
"In Uzbek kebab joints like Cheburechnaya I often see the parabolic, cracker-thin flatbread noni toki served alongside the kebabs." - Robert Sietsema
"Named after meat-stuffed turnovers called chebureki, this kosher Uzbek restaurant specializes in kebabs, and several involve organs. Due to their high fat content, the lamb or veal sweetbreads (in this case, the thymus gland) are especially good at absorbing the smell of the smoking charcoal over which they’re cooked, and are also bargain priced at this BYOB spot in Rego Park." - Robert Sietsema
