Uzbegim Halal Restaurant

Uzbegim is a small Uzbek and Turkish halal restaurant at 117 28th Ave N in Midtown Nashville, tucked into the back of a building near Centennial Park. Six indoor tables, outdoor grill for charcoal kebabs, Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition. Family owned by Ulugbek Fayziev.

Uzbegim is the kind of restaurant that makes you feel like you found something. It operates out of a building near Centennial Park that also houses a pizza operation, with six tables inside and a charcoal grill out back, and a menu that explains itself as soon as the food arrives.

The Uyghur lagman is hand-pulled noodles with beef, peppers, cabbage, and egg, stir-fried with heat and funk. The kebabs come off the charcoal grill smoky and properly charred, served with sliced onion and fresh dill, nothing more required. The plov — lamb, rice, chickpeas, raisins, carrots — is properly made Central Asian comfort food. The tandoor samsa is a flaky beef-and-onion pastry with spicy red sauce. The shurpa soup has dill and garlic in a broth with lamb and potato that slow you down in a good way. The honey cake is the dessert and you should order it.

Michelin gave it a Bib Gourmand. The prices are genuinely accessible. The food is genuinely excellent. This is one of the most interesting restaurants in Nashville and almost nobody outside its immediate neighborhood knows about it.