Cafes and restaurants in Tashkent present delicious national Uzbek as well as European, Middle Eastern and Russian cuisines.
Old part of the city is the center of traditional local cuisine in Tashkent. Between Kukeldash Madrassah and Chorsu bazaar you may find a great number of chaykhanas (café terrace with ayvans) and eating houses, where you can snack a kebab, shaurma, Uzbek somsa and etc.
Also you can try national dishes in family-run Uzbek houses. Close to the Yunus-Obod tennis court there is the huge Pilaf center (Osh Markazi), where you may taste delicious wedding Tashkent pilaf.