Tashkent Supermarket, known for its extensive hot bar in Brighton Beach, has finally opened its first Manhattan location at 278 Sixth Avenue after years of anticipation since its 2019 planning. The process faced numerous setbacks, particularly due to COVID-19 and landlord negotiations. Locals expressed impatience as they watched the storefront remain closed for nearly three years. After the doors opened, visitors were drawn in by an appealing selection of dishes, including the popular plov, alongside pastries and other snacks, marking it as a hybrid grocery store and food haven.
"Having a location in Manhattan has always been a dream of ours. We started the process in 2019, but obviously, we ran into some unforeseen complications."
"It feels like it's been there forever, promising to open but never doing so, taunting me every day as I leave and enter the subway on the way to work."
Throughout a visit yesterday morning, countless passersby paused their commutes to ogle the sour-cherry stuffed blinchik, flaky samsa pastries, and stratified cake slices that beckon from the window pastry case.
Tashkent is part supermarket, prepared foods palace, and snack emporium, funneling shoppers towards an open kitchen where the ubiquitous rice and stewed meat dish known as plov is doled out from large drum-like basins.
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