Taam Tov, which means good taste in Hebrew, is a Bukharian restaurant located two floors above 47th Street. It’s the traditional cuisine of the Bukharan Jewish community. If you weren’t looking for it, you’d probably miss it. I met a friend there recently for lunch.  Neither of us was very familiar with this Jewish cuisine.

Our first dish was the Manty ($15.99), five large steamed thin dough dumplings filled with beef.  We also ordered the “Falafel Salad,”  sadly not with greens as I would have thought but with six falafel balls in a pool of hummus. And no bread for dipping. ($12.99)

Our main dish was the bakhsh ($15.99), the unusual hearty Bukharian rice pilaf made with ground meat, chicken and herbs. We shared a bottle of the Psâgot Sinai, cabernet sauvignon ($33), 2019 from Jerusalem.

Taam Tov is an unusual place to grab a bite when in the diamond district.

Taam Tov
Diamond District
41 W 47th St
New York, NY 10036
+1 212-768-8001
taamtovrestaurant.com