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| - We didn't entirely know what to expect out of Kavsar Restaurant. But the second I saw that there was an Uzbek restaurant in Pittsburgh, I knew we had to try it. This isn't something you can get just anywhere, folks. It's unique. And it's DELICIOUS. The food at Kavsar is 5 stars, hands down, no debate about it.
Kavsar is definitely not a restaurant one would have found in the days before GPS and Yelp. It's off the beaten path in a residential neighborhood, far from the hub of activity in the city. To get there, we drove up and down crazy streets with massive inclines and sharp turns, through some areas of the city we never would have seen otherwise. Kavsar is located in a small, old building on the corner of a dimly lit residential street on Washington Mountain. There is a private parking lot for it on the opposite side of the street a block away. (They ask you on a sign there to remember your license plate number and register it in the restaurant, so that non-patrons do not use the lot, but the waitress told us we didn't really need to give it to her.) The restaurant smells really good. We were led up their small staircase up into the upstairs dining room. It all seemed a little sketchy at first, but once you get up there, it's a very nice atmosphere.
It was a real toss-up of what to order here. It all looks so good. I had the ugra, a soup of beef, noodles, potatoes, carrots, dill, green onions, and some other spices. It is a traditional Uzbek soup and it was absolutely delicious. The noodles and potatoes were perfectly cooked and you could tell everything had been slow-cooked carefully with just the right amount of each spice. I highly recommend the ugra.
My mom had the nuhot shurak, a delicious dish of beef, onions (pickled?), and chickpeas swimming in savory beef broth and a spice mix. It was heavenly. The beef in the nuhot shurak was the best thing we tasted here. The chickpeas were perfectly cooked and absorbed the flavor of the broth well.
My dad had the plov (also spelled palov), which is Uzbekistan's essential rice dish, with a little beef, carrots, and green onions mixed in, and a whole lot of spices. The plov spices were definitely very unique. You can tell this place cares about getting everything just right, because they used different spices in all of our dishes. They don't take shortcuts here. They make stuff just how it is intended to be made.
There's little more a restaurant can do to be perfect. If you're in Pittsburgh this is a must!!! Where else can you get an authentic Uzbek meal?? I want to try it all...the lagman, the gampan, the kovurma chuchvara, the shurpa, the mastava, the okroshka...I have no doubt that it would all be delicious. And on top of everything, it's pretty cheap too! Our meal for three was under $30 excluding tip!
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