Bob Marvin

"It was with some trepidation that I visited this restaurant, which had been suggested by my brother-in-law, last night. The Avenue X location is the far side of Brooklyn from my home, there were NO reviews that I could find, and there were many unfamiliar items on the online menu I located for this UzbekCentral Asian restaurant, which appears with Russian before English--things like "manta" and "plov". With the aid of Google I discovered that the former is a kind of lamb dumpling and the latter is the Uzbek national lamb stew. I ordered both and they were really good. Others in my party ordered the feta cheese cigars , spinach kutab , and grilled eggplant appetizers and the striped bass and lamb kabob entrees. these were accompanied by excellent home made fruit punch. We ended the meal with Uzbek tea for my companions and Turkish coffee for me. Service was quite good and friendly something that also concerned me because a Bukaran restaurant I visited in Queens some time ago had service verging on hostile. I intend to return to this place and bring friends looking for something exotic"

"January 16, 2020"