Can’t Stomach Thanksgiving with Your Family? Spend It at These Family-Owned Restaurants Instead
Café Kashkar: One of the most fantastic things about Brooklyn’s food scene is how difficult it is to find an untapped cuisine here, but Café Kashkar in Brighton Beach has ably carved its own niche. Owned by the Yazova family, the restaurant serves the food of the Uyghurs, a Muslim Turkic ethnic group that comprises almost half the population of Xinjiang, China’s westernmost province. You’ll find chef Temur Yazova making lagman noodles for heady lamb soup and the meat-stuffed dumplings called manti, her husband constructing pickled salads, baking off doughy samsa and dishing up the Russian fried rice known as “plov,” her brother grilling cumin-dusted meats and skewering juicy kebabs, and her sons busily bussing the rickety, lace-topped tables.
1141 Brighton Beach Ave., (718) 743-3832