Afsona Shevchenko — Restaurant in Tashkent

It was okay. We've been traveling all around Uzbekistan for a month and today is our last day here. Last night we wanted one last Uzbek meal. I searched for a nice Uzbek restaurant. Mostly we've been eating at small side of the road type places and way off the beaten path places The reviews for this place were all really good. I just wasn't really that impressed. The tomatoes were bland while I've been raving about how UZ has the best tomatoes in the world for the past month. We didn't order lamb chops, but here you see we were served them and they were served well done, or in other words, ruined and we couldn't get what we had really ordered because the restaurant was closing early due to quarantine restrictions.. The norin, and the laghman were good, the plov was dry. And this one last thing didn't actually bother me at all I'm only throwing it in because I know it's important to some people: I've been living outside the US for over 7 years and no one around me speaking my language has just become part of my everyday reality but the reviews said the servers spoke English and were very helpful, in case that's important to you, that was not the case for us. Our server knew the menu in English but that was it. He didn't speak English and when we tried to ask him questions he was lost, so don't expect an English speaking server, but if you're traveling outside your country and still expecting people to speak to you in your language you're being a jerk, we're all in it for the experience, right?? You'll be okay! Go! Explore! Don't worry if someone can't understand you. They're...

I heard this is a quite highly recommended restaurant in Tashkent. I thought it would be nice to visit but I didn't make any reservation and so happened I walked past on the last night so decided to try my luck. Arrived at dinnertime and the place was crowded. Asked for a table and was rejected by the staff saying its full for the night. I was disappointed but then I decided to stand at the entrance for a while and see if luck would be on my side. True enough, a couple left after 10 minutes and I got the table. Came to see if there was anything to try for Uzbek food that was in my list. Saw the Mashkurda and Samsa Parmuda which looks interesting and decided to order. The soup was good and I liked the Samsa a lot as well, though the size was a bit small for me to feel satisfied. Saw the chak-chak under dessert and it sounds playful and mysterious and wanted to give it a try without knowing what it was. Turns out its a deep fried snack with honey. It was good but it tasted familiar as it resembles something we have in Asian dessert like the sachima. Food was good overall but price was a little expensive. Service of the staff was average, would be good if they were more attentive. Raised my hand a couple of times they were standing in front of me but didn't see it. Those who saw me would signal they come back to me after serving food to another table but then was forgotten after. Nevertheless its a good experience to dine here and would recommend it if you are...

We went to Afsona for dinner. We had a reservation for 8.30pm and were seated quickly on the terrace. Around 8.45 the waiter took our order : one salad and two main dishes (plov and manty). The salad came quickly. However, around 9pm the waiter informed us that the plov was no longer available. We were quite hungry by then, and picked another dish (naryn), which, we were told, would take no more than 20min to cook. The manty were brought out around 9.20pm (35min after we ordered them), but the naryn was nowhere to be seen. Finally, by 9.50pm, after we've asked several times to check on the dish, we were told that the kitchen forgot (!) about the naryn order and it will be another 10 minutes before it's ready. By that point we were tired of waiting (over an hour), frustrated and still hungry, so we just asked for the bill. That was brought to us promptly, though there was neither an apology from the management nor any courtesy gesture of good will (eg discount on food). In fact, a 20% surcharge was added to the order for service that left much to be desired. An extremely disappointing experience in a place that used to be quite good...