Open Travel Guide
Food tours in Tashkent City

Tashkent City Food Tours Guide 2026

How to taste Tashkent City properly: market tours, cooking schools, and a food crawl you can run solo.

By Updated

The short answer: start with Self-Guided Chorsu Bazaar Food Walk, Plov Lunch at Besh Qozon and Lagman and Samsa Crawl. This guide profiles 3+ food tours and culinary experiences in Tashkent City, with prices, timing, and the practical notes that decide whether each one earns a place in your plan.

Tashkent City is Uzbekistan's capital and largest city, a sprawling Silk Road crossroads of old-town madrasas, a vast blue-domed bazaar, Soviet-era monuments and a fast-changing modern centre.

Top food tours

Guided experiences that show you Tashkent City through its food.

Food tour

Self-Guided Chorsu Bazaar Food Walk

2–3 hours60,000–120,000 UZS (~$5–10) per person for tastings

Walk the bread, samsa, dried fruit and meat halls and eat as you go.

Includes: Warm tandir-baked non bread sampled straight from the market's bread sellers · Samsa filled with minced lamb and onion, eaten fresh from the oven · Dried apricots, raisins, walnuts and halva sold by weight in the dried-fruit rows · The blue-domed central hall of Chorsu Bazaar, Tashkent's best-known market building
Get infoBook now
Food tour

Plov Lunch at Besh Qozon

1–1.5 hours50,000–90,000 UZS (~$4.2–7.5) per person

Lunch of freshly cooked plov at the large plov centre beside the TV Tower.

Includes: Plov cooked in giant cast-iron kazan cauldrons, served fresh in the Yunusobod District · A traditional plate of rice, carrot and lamb or beef, the national dish of Uzbekistan · Fresh tomato and onion salad and tea served alongside the main dish · Location beside the Tashkent TV Tower, easy to combine with other sights in the area
Get infoBook now
Food tour

Lagman and Samsa Crawl

2 hours60,000–110,000 UZS (~$5–9.2) per person

Hand-pulled noodles then fresh tandir samsa from the nearby bazaar.

Includes: Hand-pulled lagman noodles in a rich beef or lamb and vegetable sauce · Fresh tandir samsa with a crisp, flaky crust and minced lamb filling · A route that blends Uzbek and Uyghur cooking traditions in the Old City · Tea served at the end of each stop to complete the meal
Get infoBook now

Book a food tour in Tashkent City

Compare availability and prices for guided food experiences.

See food tours in Tashkent City

We may earn a commission from bookings made through these links.

Tour formats

Different ways to experience Tashkent City's food scene.

DIY self-guided food tour

Build your own food crawl through Tashkent City.

  1. 1

    Start at Chorsu Bazaar by 09:00

  2. 2

    Plov lunch at Besh Qozon by 12:30

  3. 3

    Evening dinner at Afsona or Caravan

Foodie tips

Get more out of every meal.

Tip

Eat plov at lunch.

Tip

Carry small notes for market stalls.

Tip

Try non fresh from the tandir.

Related topics