Cheburechnaya

The meat is incredibly delicious. In the homeland, I searched a lot of things to find the best. In New York I found at the first try.

Came here on a Sunday, had a good crowd. We seated ourselves and our orders were taken quickly. We ordered the chicken, lamb and rib. It was tasty and even though it looked like it wasn’t enough we left super full. We also ordered the potatoes filled turnovers, it was delicious. The Service was exceptional… nothing over the top. I would come here again… but not anytime soon…

Grilled lamb chop and the manty were the best. Green baklava were okay.
Grilled lamb was a bit tough but good flavor. Overall very good value

Well, what can I say… It’s simply the best Georgian/​Uzbek/​Kosher place in the neighborhood! Chebureki and dolma are delicious, and so are gozhdizhda and fresh salad. This food is authentic and you feel yourself like home. I highly recommend this place for big family lunches, brunches and dinners!

I think this is one of the most awful places to stay for eat. I ordered Heineken beer, and waitress brought me two closed bottle of it, and then when I asked to open it, he asked me back could I open it on my own. Of course not! Are you kidding me? I’m a customer here, not employee! And also they don’t have special glasses for beer, so I was drinking a beer from the bottle.
Another waiter took out from my table extra plates and forks and gave to my friend knife and not knife for me. Wow! I’ve never seen so much rude stuff in one place.
P. S. Ok, chebureki were delicious, but it’s only one stuff that was good in this place!

Very chill on Thursday afternoon.
Some Russian friends suggested that I try the meat dolma, I’ve only ever had the ones with rice and other veggies inside, the meat ones were the best I’ve ever had!
The chebureki and sour vegetables were also excellent.
We had pistachio baklava for dessert. It had much thinner phyllo dough than the Greek kind, and it was super tasty.

Lulya kebabs are tender, juicy and melt-​in-​your-​mouth delicious. Lamb kebabs are perfectly cooked. fresh salad has avocado, asparagus, cucumbers and tomatoes. Manty (Uzbek dumpling) is filled with meat and onion and steamed to perfection. The cuisine is not overly spiced. The delicate flavors and freshness make me crave the cuisine a few days later!

Not bad at all, meat is fresh, salads are great and above all it extremely cheap !!
Strongly recommend this place.

When it comes to restaurants, I try to do my best to not judge a book by its cover. You develop this mindset after living in Queens for years. You learn that the exterior may seem simple and basic (sometimes even dirty), but after giving some of them a chance, you can be rewarded with a memorable experience.
That mindset led me to Cheburechnaya. Cheb is clearly exposed in the middle of 63^rd drive Rego Park, Queens. It’s located mid-​way between my apt and the 63^rd drive train station on Queens Blvd. Walking home, I often noticed that it was always packed with Russian families, young and old, right around 5 pm (and around 11 a.m. on weekends).
When my girlfriend came to visit me one weekend, I decided to pull out some of my mental bookmarks and try something new. So we gave this place a chance since neither of us had Russian before. I ate, came back again, and again and again… over a period of 3 weeks. I went home and did more research on Russian food on Google and Youtube, so I can come back to try new dishes. The food here was truly that delicious and authentic. Whenever I think about places like these in NYC, it saddens me that such eclectic options are no longer so easily accessible.
At first glance, the soup, salads and entrees all look very simple. When you starting eating it though, you can taste all off the creativity and uniqueness in each and every dish. The soups are hearty, healthy and delicious. Any of the Samcys are worth a try. The meat are so flavorful and fresh. I’ve had a lot of lamb in my years, but what I had here was definitely special.
And on a side note, they don’t seem to get offended when you ask them for hot sauce or Sriracha on the side. Sorry, but I need to have that with almost everything.

When I come here all I order is the boneless chicken, Israeli salad, sweetbread (well done), and the lamb.
One word. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm­mmmm.
They have an awesome beer that comes in a 7 and a 9 (I guess that’s how drunk you get in a scale of 1 – 10 after having a couple). If you’re not driving, get the 9.
I need to stop writing the review, as I am getting hungry thinking about it.

Originally my go to spot for good kebabs is in Brooklyn (Nargis) but I have tried many places in queens that serve uzbeki food, specifically kebabs, plov, samsa and chebureki. And so far, for queens, this place tops them all.
The chebureki are not greasy at all, instead crispy and bursting with the juice from the meat (literally bursting, have a few napkins on hand).
The kebabs, beef/​lamb/​chicken and liver were all tender. Sea bass kebab is good but needs a sauce to go with it, otherwise it just taste too fishy.
The fresh salad is one of its kind, it literally had all the vegetables you could imagine in it, not really to my liking, I was expecting just some cucumbers, tomatoes and onions, but hey everyone has their preferences.
The overall atmosphere is very stalovaya/​cafeteria like, with bright white lights and lack of décor. The service is quick and comes with a great Russian smile (bitchy resting face). The place is BYOB just make sure it’s kosher.

What a great surprise and wonderful kosher uZbeki treat to enjoy ! Pilaf rice with lamb melted in our mouth. Variety of kababs a left us fully stuffed and satisfied. Roe sky staff that key is sit and enjoyer our company well after we finished our meal. The only reason I did give it a 5 is because of the bathroom condition and the noisy setting. But it’s a great value for quality ethnic kosher food! Coming from Long Island continuing past Main Street queens to rego park was well
Worth it and less expensive !!!

Amazingly affordable, interesting and delicious food. I highly recommend trying this place. Central Asian food is great and not widely available.
The pumpkin samcy, like a pumpkin ravioli but bigger and in pastry dough, was my favorite thing
The mushroom and potato chebureki were delicious! I would like to try the other chebureki if I go back
The monty were excellent lamb filled dumplings
The Fresh Salad was great and totally worth ordering, had lots of fresh vegetables including avocado
I would suggest getting both the sea bass and the lamb kebabs.
The Baltika 9 beer was ok, interesting to try Russian beer but nothing special
The green pilaf was the least exciting part of the meal
The baklava was an excellent dessert!
Overall, this is a good sit down place, not far from the train with reasonably attentive service. There was no water brought to our table even though we asked. I would strongly endorse this place

One of the few central Asian places that actually managed to stay in business all these years and that means there is something they are doing right.
Went there on Sunday evening. Place is relatively spacious and it was PaCKED. Almost everyone in the restaurant spoke Russian.
menu let’s you order your meal tapas style if you wan to try as many items as possible in order to get proper intro. Prices are dirt cheap, which is just what my credit card prescribed.
We ordered manty-​Uzbek steamed large dumplings with beef which lacked a flavor, samsa– layered Asian style baked empanada with ribs and potatoes, chebureki-​fried thin dough empanadas with beef. The highlight of the dinner was morkovcha which is carrot salad (I do not like carrots, but I like em carrots), lamb ribs and ground lamb kebab, bth marinaded in Russian style marinade. If you are there also try Russian beer Baltika.
Service is very prompt, definitely still typical «service with smile» but after taking a look at the clientele mainly consisting of Russian and central Asian crowds who were definitely not smiling types, it was clear why the staff was not smiling either.
It is a bit sad that they do not carry Russian desserts like smetannik or medovik.

My boyfriend took me here on a date, which was much needed after a rough week at work for the both of us. We ordered a ton of things and were enticed by the authenticity of the restaurant and the staff working there. The manty (dumplings) were the first dish we started with and were so delicious. You absolutely must get them if you visit here. We had borscht, lamb kebabs, traditional pilaf, and the namesake cheburechnaya with meat. We also had baklava for dessert. The lamb and pilaf were okay — the meat in the pilaf was really greasy and fatty. But everything else was delicious, especially the baklava, which I was having for the first time, as per other Unilocalers and my boyfriend’s recommendation.
The service was okay. We were confused at first because we were approached by many different waitresses and kept denying we needed their help because we wanted to be loyal to the first waitress who had brought us our drinks. We wanted to order appetizers and keep ordering based on how hungry we felt throughout the meal, but they didn’t seem to get that concept and it took them about 15 minutes to come back and take the rest of our order, after we had our appetizer delivered. The language barrier between us and the waitress was large, so that might have contributed to it, but overall I would absolutely recommend this place.

many of my friends recommend me the place,
I finally decide to go try it out,
I search the place on google.
Google showed they open on Saturday all day,
we came from a different boro. but the place was closed,
other wise the food very good

In an attempt to step outside our narrow gastrointestinal boundaries, my husband and I made a visit to Cheburechnaya for dinner yesterday. Knowing near nothing about Eastern European cuisine (and, in fact, being barely able to pronounce the name of the restaurant), we came armed only with Unilocal recommendations and an expectation-​less appetite. Our meal began with an assortment of chebureki and samcy. Both are stuffed pastries, but the chebureki are flat like ravioli and fried, while the samcy are baked with a rounder and slightly thicker pastry.
The chebureki arrived with a promising patina of sizzling grease, delivered to our table mere seconds after its baptism through a deep fryer. The mushroom chebureki was filled with a savory blend of chopped mushrooms and a light sauce that miraculously didn’t soften the crispy wrapper. The potato chebureki made the fat carb lady in me sing. Smooth, mashed potato-​like filling in a deep-​fried wrapper? Dumpling fans, meet your new best buddy.
The samcy were the next to arrive and we ordered two kinds of these as well. I’m usually not a fan of anything with pumpkin in it but something compelled me to order it this time and I was richly rewarded for the risk by the first bite. Shredded pumpkin is cooked with onion and a perfect medley of spices that cleverly drew the flavor of the pumpkin away from its usual sweet and dessert-​like fate. Wrapped with a flaky pastry, this topped out as one of my surprise favorites of the night. Out of respect for my carnivorous husband, we also ordered what is called «samcy with ribS» on the menu, but it should really just be ‘rib’. Singular. A large bone-​in rib is wrapped with the same pastry, inviting one to simply approach it caveman style and hold it by one end like a drumstick while chewing on the other. In the end, that’s just what my husband did. He gnawed at it unenthusiastically and shruggingly pronounced it «just okay».
«Just okay» could actually describe the rest of our meal. Lamb and salmon skewers ended the meal with far less pizzaz, both being just a touch too dry and rescued only by the flavor-​saving grace of flame broiled char. We found ourselves recycling the hot sauce that came with our cheburekis and samcies by dousing it all over our skewers in an effort to coax just a little more flavor out of our entrees. While the vinegary, salsa-​like sauce helped plenty, there were also bottles of ketchup, pepper-​marinated vinegar, and the somewhat incongruous but ever-​ubiquitous bottle of Sriracha sauce available.
Our multitudionous meal came out to about $ 17, helped largely by the inexpensiveness of our appetizers, each of which were only two bucks or less. Though we were clearly the foreigners in the mix, service was warm and prompt. To top it all off, it seems that Cheburechnya is one of few BYOB places in the area. We didn’t take advantage of it this time, but since we’ve christened these chebureki as the perfect new drunk food, we may return with a few bottles in hand.

I’ve always loved central asian and russian food.
Went here with a friend and had some ground lamb (lulya) kebabs, manty (dumplings), and plov. ALl was very good. I didn’t have any complaints really. ANd the plov was one of the better ones I’ve had.
The tomato sauce that came for the kebabs was great.
Price was very decent as well. I“ll be back.

I am not Not from Uzbekistan, nor claim the ability to pick it out exactly on the map. But I know good food. And this place has good food.
Just on favors. I can see and taste the influence of the Silk Road and being wedged between the Middle East and Asia. The meat is seasoned and cooked similarly to the Middle East and or Mediterranean.

Cheburechnaya is the reason why I both love and am proud to be a New Yorker. Growing up eating this type of food, I can honestly say it’s the epitome of what it means to be considered «authentic.»
Yes, on the outside and on the inside it may not seem like much, perhaps even one step below diner, but the food is far from mediocre. See, you can’t judge a book by its cover! It’s as if there’s a Bukharian grandma cooking up a storm in the kitchen because the second you walk in it smells like home.
My parents have been coming here for years and know exactly what to get so my mom took control of the order, with some of my input, of course. We ordered the manty (lamb dumplings), Cheburechnaya salad, pilaff (or plov, for those more familiar with that term), veal liver, grilled onion, french fries with mushrooms, green baklava, a pot of tea, and Chersi (tarragon flavored soda). Food coma, anyone?
Manty are massive and the lamb they’re filled with isn’t ground but rather in chunks. Dip them in the sauce, or not, either way, they’re great. The salad is huge and really refreshing, especially when you’re eating such a meaty meal. Pilaff was very good as well, tastes just like the kind my relatives make so you know this stuff’s legit. Fries with mushrooms: salty, shroomy, and piled with fried onions. The liver itself is decent, but when you order it with the onions you have a perfect pairing. Green baklava is not your typical baklava and isn’t drenched in honey like you’d expect. Yes, theres honey, but it isn’t overbearing or overly sweet, but rather much nuttier from the pistachios.
The food is dirt cheap and you can bring your own wine. When my parents come here they leave with the whole dinner costing them less than $ 25! It’s also great that you order meat by the skewer so order a variety and share it all! The skewers aren’t the kind you’d see in any restaurant though, they’re the real thing; the kind that look like medieval weapons.
You know a restaurant is good when it’s early (5pm) and the place is already starting to fill up. Good grub leaving your stomach packed with meaty goodness, I’ll be back for sure.