Brooklyn’s Best Russian Restaurants
Elza Fancy Food: You won’t find another restaurant quite like Brighton Beach’s Elza Fancy Food (except for its second outpost in Bath Beach). The cuisine reflects the forcible relocation of 174,000 Koreans from Russia to Uzbekistan in the 1930’s, which means that Uzbek specialties like lagman (lamb and noodles in tomato broth), get a wallop of heat from fermented chili paste, and Korean soups like kuksu (topped with floating islands of shredded omelet, cabbage kimchi, marinated cucumber and sliced lamb) are perfumed by verdant fronds of fresh dill.
8611 19th Ave., (718) 234-1940