Suzani Restaurant | Steaks & Kebabs — Restaurant in Philadelphia

Often times while traveling, my wife and I always make an effort to grab different types of food that we don't have in our area. Imagine our surprise, that while in town for business, and with time to kill before an art exhibition, we discovered an Uzbeki restaurant.

Immediately upon entering, we were greeted and led to a large comfortable booth in the back of the restaurant. The lighting was warm, the walls were adorned with beautiful rugs, and the customers' spirits were high. Each table had been pre-set with the resutarant's lovely plates and crystal drinkware.

Given that this was our first time at an Uzbeki eatery, we asked our server for some suggestions. Upon doing so, she then asked us if we prefer meat or fish. After perusing the menu a bit more and taking her suggestions into consideration, we had decided to order a wide array of sorts, opting for the pickled herring and potato appetizer, some Tandoori Samsas, a bowl of the Kharcho soup, and an order of the Guyru Dumplings.

Our dishes were brought out promptly and our server made sure to check on us periodically throughout our meal, at one point even offering to allow the kitchen to split some of our dishes up for us to make it easier to share with one another. The pallet of flavors we were presented with was colored and wonderful; the pickled hairing playing a perfect duet with the hearty roasted potatoes, pairing well balanced acidity and perfectly crisp potatoey goodness, the kharcho simultaneously lightly spicy and fully refershing with that dill coming throough alongside juiicy chunks of lamb, and the the delectable dumplings, swimming in a flavorful bath of broth and sour cream.

As we neared fullness, we realized we had forgotten to add one more piece to this meal...the dessert! After this realization, we decided to share a piece of wonderfully sticky Phaklava, adorned with and generously filled with walnuts and golden raisans.

Suzani Restaurant is not to be missed. It is a dining experience that makes me feel like you've been invited into someone's home, but also that you are sitting down for a royal banquet. Be sure to check it out if you ever find yourself in the...

Came here Monday night at 8:30pm, we were seated right away, the whole restaurant was empty.

Beef Samsa $4 - Reminds me of a steak roll you get at a Chinese store, had beef and onion, had a great flavor, would get again.

Cheburek $4 - meat inside, but no onion? It was very empty inside a lot of space. inside, with just cooked meat. This was a bad dish and would never get it again, lacked flavor completely.

Babaganoush $10.99, had a great flavor and the bread was warm and crispy/crunchy, which surprised me since I thought it would be softer. Overall, still good. Might get again, price makes me hesitate.

The beef kebab had 4 pieces of meat on it and a small pile of lemony onion. This had the best flavor and tenderness out everything we ate, but was ridiculously expensive. $9 for just 4 bite size pieces. Might get again. Enjoyed the lemony onion flavor.

Exotic Pineapple Sweet Chili Chicken $14.99 - tasted asian, flavor was good, not great, not bad, would not get again though. Can definitely taste sweetness and pineapple and the chicken, wasn't an amazing dish.

Kutaisi Style Beef $19.99 - texture is in between hamburger and steak, flavor was decent, strange not like hamburger, but not like steak either. Not worth $20 honestly though.

The hostess is also the waitress, barely spoke any English, barely understood any English either, which was hard, when she was trying to take our babaganoush and I told her " We still want it." and "We want to keep it here." and other ways to say it. She also didn't tell us that the drink she placed on the table was not the drink we ordered, and we opened it realizing it was peach carbonated water. It ended up being $6 on the bill extra. Just wish we had a disclaimer. It would benefit this restaurant to have someone speak English.

Parking? Free inside the parking lot. Food? Hit or miss. Only things worth getting for certain IF COOKED the same way are the Beef Samsa and Beef Shish Kebab. Service? Good, just wish the restaurant had a better English speaking person. Would I come here again? Yes, but only for take out, hoping for...

We have dined in at Suzani before and our previous impression was very good. Today, we opted for a quick pick-up. The food was carefully packaged, no spilling. The menu is rather extensive with lots of Uzbeki traditional dishes as well as some East European specialties such as borscht, herring with potatoes, "Olivier" salad, etc. Very impressive line-up of kebabs/shashlyks from chicken, lamb, beef, and "lulya" (ground meat similar to "Seekh" kebab) to shrimp, beef tenderloin and "Napoleon" (thin cut and layered rib-eye grilled on charcoal). Endless choices of hot appetizers such as chebureks and kutabi with beef. Endless choices of gourmet salads and soups; the former category features "Sultan" (the original combination of veal in a soy sauce with feathers of green onion, cilantro, garlic, sweet peppers and fresh cucumbers), "Achichuk" (traditional Uzbek salad of thin sliced tomato, onions and hot peppers) and "Bakhor Salad" (veal tongue, daikon, tomato, cucumbers & onion served in mayo with quail eggs), among other specialties. The soups section offers "Okroshka" (cold yogurt soup with fresh greens, vegetables and sausage), "Uyghur Lagman" soup (hand pulled noodle with vegetables and beef), "Shurpa" (vegetable soup with chickpea and beef), and "Kharcho (spicy soup with vegetables, rice and lamb), among others. Don't miss on Uzbeki traditional oven baked bread "lepyoshka"! Fish entrées include fried sazan (Eurasian carp), branzino and Chilean seabass. Attention: there are two restaurants in the area called Suzany. The one you need (the one you can order your food online) is Suzany located on Welsh Rd and not Suzani Palace situated on Red Lion Rd. Great food, good prices. Highly recommended. Very...