Cafe Chenar
The Bukharian food plated, bowled, and served hot and doughy in lidded bamboo baskets at Café Chenar is Bukharian — the foodstuff of a Jewish minority of Uzbekistan. This is the native region of the Uvaydov family, whose matriarch, Mazel, presides above the cooking of Café Chenar. The loved ones also operates LaBella Pizzeria and Kitchen 18 in Scottsdale, but Café Chenar is where the Bukharian miracles stay. This central Asian cafe of soups, dumplings, kebabs, and Cornish hens is a return to relatives roots following catering to other palates. Diners sit in a spare, sleek contemporary eating room chatting softly over porcelain teapots, inexperienced tea issuing warming steam from deeply blue, gold-rimmed cups. From a single angle, to consume at Café Chenar is to embrace a huge planet of dumplings. Dough pockets occur big and smaller, pan-fried and deep-fried, steamed and souped. They come as manti, pelmeni, and hanum. But this is just just one angle through which to see Café Chenar. There are other enclaves of the menu, loads of sub-groups to hungrily roam. Don’t miss out on the substantial assortment of kebabs, flat steel skewers ripe with, ideally, sweetbreads and lamb ribs. Or a section of effectively-priced savory hand pies, like beef-wealthy samsa. You can also get pleasure from greater-structure plates, like Cornish hen and molded-rice mountains of plov. The way to ideal knowledge this food items at the crossroads of European, Asian, Russian, and Jewish traditions is to get smaller, widely, and to share. Café Chenar is an significant cog not only in our kosher cafe scene, but in our foodstuff lifestyle as a complete. New Regular: Seating is constrained inside of, but Café Chenar’s kosher menu is available by using takeout and 3rd-get together delivery companies.
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1601 E. Bell Rd., Suite A-11, Phoenix, 85022