Shashlik Mashlik

Good vibe. Good chebyreku. Good sides not so good sashliki. And is the main reason for going ti a place like this.

They changed their name to Café Euphoria! Wow, you know a restaurant must be doing bad if they literally have to rebrand themselves to get new customers. I ordered from this place via Seamless, where there weren’t too many reviews. checked Unilocal,but there were no reviews under Café Euphoria either… decide that I’ll try something new, why not? I’ve been in love with Uzbeki plov lately, and it seems this was one of the few places in the neighborhood who had the dosh on their menu. I ordered at 2:03 and it is now 3:32… keep in mind, I’m only a 20 minute walk (the most) from the restaurant. I called them at the 2:45 mark and a guy answers saying that it’s on its way. called again around 3:15 and this time a lady answers, saying that their delivery guy is trying to get the orders on time, but theirs something wrong with his car. I ask for a refund, because I assume by then my food is cold. she says to call seamless, and that it isn’t their fault because of the circumstances that took Place. What freaking circumstances? your delivery guys only have one motor vehicle?
sigh… no wonder they had to rebrand the restaurant to trick new customers. very pathetic.

Former Italian restaurant or some sort of space +décor makes it odd, but in the end food is good and cheap bring your own alcohol.

Sorry «shashlik-​falseshik», I gave it another chance when I ordered second time… shashlik’s are pretty mediocre and half of the items on the menu are not available. The owner or maybe manager (Georgian) looking guy is nasty as hell. Oh, yea they do not like credit cards either, he made a big deal when I tried to pay with credit card — $ 80 that he has tables waiting (2 tables). I realize you like to run your crap place as cash business but with food quality and your attitude you just gonna loose both.
Avoid this hole.

You get the feeling that the proprietors at Shashlik Mashlik are trying, but not succeeding at being clever.
Take the current Unilocal score — 1 star. That’s going to scare away quite a few potential dinners, both the Russian-​speaking crowd looking for kebabs and the foodies on outer borough adventures. The damage seems partially self-​inflected, as this restaurant tried to deal with a couple of negative reviews by spamming this site with fake positive reviews. The result is that Unilocal removed all good reviews, including a couple that seemed genuine.
That same sense of overbearingness is present at the restaurant, which so clearly rebuffs the ban on smoking that it seems like a time machine to 2004. The manager greeted our party of 13 warmly, but also tried to take charge of ordering. We were there as part of a food tour so had to be relatively conservative in our choices, but he kept trying to put us on the banquet track.
After some firm but friendly direction — and acquiring the new nickname of «Captain» — our food started to arrive.
The flatbread here is served in pieces, not as a one large unit. It was hot but appeared to be reheated — which is an incredible sin and denied my companions of a great pleasure of this cuisine.
The dolma was nice, no hints of sweetness that you find in other places, and the plov, had nice pieces of lamb to balance out the oiliness of the rice.
But the main courses, a few lamb and chicken kebobs along with a vegetable platter for the non-​meat eaters in the group were problematic. The lamb was chewy and underseasoned, the vegetable mix appeared to be juiced with frozen cauliflower and carrots.
So while I can refute some of the more outlandish claims on here — no one got food poisoned, no one was overcharged, nobody was mean and they let us bring in alcohol without charge — I can’t give a positive review.
A final note — the menu has a picture of Samarkand and a number of Uzbek dishes listed. None of these, including the samsa, were available and the owners response — «No Uzbek, only Azeri.» — begs the question of why they are on the menu to begin with. A much better alternative for this type of food is Old Baku in Midwood.

I agree with all reviewers thus far. Recently had a family party here and several relatives fell so ill from the food that they spent the night in the bathroom. It’s atrocious that a business could get away with serving such low quality and spoiled food to their customers. They should be ashamed of themselves. DO NOT EAT HERE.

t this place has me in awe. Un-​real. Some of the best food I have ever eaten — period. The shepherd salad w/​cheese? Check. Lamb shish kebab? Double check. The leeks? YES. The kitchen is definitely a well-​oiled machine — the food comes out quickly and it’s hot and fresh. The wait staff is TOTALLY on their game. THE BEST. Great food and service. Glamorous? No. But really amazing food at really amazing prices. you must get the fried liver cubes. whether I eat there or take it to go, it’s delicious and RELIABLE. My favorite dish is probably the lamb chops, best lamb, liver shashlik very TASTY WOW

if you are in the mood to sit down with a couple of friends for some great tasting Kebabs and Liver (sHASHLIK IS WOW NO KEBABS IN BROOKLYN HAS THE TAST LIKE THIS PLACE (to die for.) This is the spot. THIS PLACE is great for family and friends birthday party.
I’ve been going here for 3 years. And no other restaurant can be compared to shashlik Mashlik. Food is delicious, very cheap and clean. I’ve tried many restaurants and won’t switch this place with any other. unless you go to moscow. Also if you love russian home fries with mushrooms the tasty hhmm yummy unreal
their Dolma, lamb kebab Lyulya kebab is done the real baku

Not a shish kebab place!
Will not come back.

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I am not sure what the previous reviewers ate, or what their definition of a shish kebab is but I think something may be wrong with their taste buds. I am a meat eater let me start off with that, i love a big fat juicy steak, I BBQ in the winter and rain, so you can trust this review!
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I have to say that I am a huge fan of Shish Kebabs, as well as the Pilaf, or «Plov» tonight we ordered from Shashlik Mashlik not having tried it before, and my G-​D it was amazing! such wonderful food, perfectly cooked, not charred how I usually like it, but with a delicate touch, cooked just to done, nice and juicy with lots of flavor, they even give you the fatty bits with the shishkebabs! (for the fatty’s like me that will eat it!) the Seared Tuna salad was great, with an asian flare it had just enough seasonings and greenery to pass for a salad. the dipping sauce (not sure what it was) was like a mixture of steak sauce with tomato ketchup, delicious on EVERYTHING! shish served up with the obligatory sliced onions and parsley, the only thing missing was the Russian style bread (which I didn’t see on the menu…) I will buy from here any day of the week, and they now have a lifelong customer. I promise you will not be disappointed!

Surprised that there are only 2 reviews for this place, and both are 1 star. I’ve been here a LOT of times for family parties (closing the restaurant down type of deal) and the food has always been delicious, ALL of it. Maybe it’s different if you just go there to eat and not close it down for a party, I don’t know, but I’ve never had a bad experience there.

I agree with the previous reviewer. For a place that has «shish kebab» in its name, the shish kebabs were awful. The only tasty things were the kompot and french fries. Rather ironic.

In a quest to find best «shashlik» (shish kebab) in the area, me and my friend finally decided to visit Shashlik Mashlik. The only thing that I liked was their compote (stewed fruit drink), and Caesar salad was good too (but then, how difficult it is to prepare a decent Caesar salad?).
We also ordered beef kebabs, fried potato with mushrooms, and «vegetables on grill» (turned out it’s _​one_​vegetable_​— you can choose either a tomato or an eggplant). Potato/​mushrooms (the commonest button mushrooms, instead of forest mushrooms or portobello, like they do in other places) was ok, nothing to write home about. Kebabs were made from a cheap cut of beef (too many tendons) and badly grilled (so dry I had trouble even cutting it), and only 4 small pieces of meat per portion (around $ 8, and if you wanted any bread /​rice /​etc with it it had to be ordered separately). The eggplant on a grill… I am used to grilled veggies which are cut and placed on a grill for a few minutes each side, you get the picture. Here they took one small eggplant and BURNED the poor thing. Literally. The outside was one big black piece of charcoal. When I cut it in half, insides were mushy and had no taste at all. Not surprisingly, since eggplants are not supposed to be «grilled» this way.
Oh yes, and the dipping sauce such places usually serve with kebab — spicy, tomato-​based, with various herbs etc — here turned out to be, I kid you not, a watered-​down ketchup. Yuck.
Overall, it’s not even funny that a cook working in a kebab place doesn’t know how to work the grill, and the prices for such food were outrageous (usually one skewer of kebab costs you about $ 4 by itself, or $ 8 – 10 if it’s a meal, meaning it comes with veggies /​rice /​potatoes /​etc). Pretty certain we will not be coming back — there are many other places in NYC.
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UPD:
For some reason, since I posted my unfavorable review, all of a sudden there appeared several 5-​star reviews stating that Shashlik Mashlik is the best place on earth for a kebab. I keep wondering where were all those people before I reviewed the place, and why they all are newly registered and have only one review each.
I stated very specifically what is was we did not like about the food. Since other reviewers are unanimous in that «it’s the best», maybe we somehow came to the restaurant on a bad day, or at a bad time, or were just plain unlucky. We may go back in a little while to see whether «grilled vegetables» and a $ 8 skewer of meat improved in quality.