# Besh Qozon Plov Centre, Tashkent > The Plov Centre (Besh Qozon) is Tashkent’s huge pilaf canteen beside the TV Tower, where plov is cooked in giant cauldrons over open fire in the yard. A portion of wedding plov is **52,000 sum** on the chain’s menu, and lunch takes about an hour. It opens daily at 9:00, but come between 11:00 and 13:00 — plov runs low by late afternoon. Nearest metro: Bodomzor. Web page: https://yesgo.io/uzbekistan/tashkent/tashkent-plov-centre - City: [Tashkent](https://yesgo.io/uzbekistan/tashkent), Uzbekistan - YesGo score: 34/100 (Yes, if nearby) - Time on site: 1 h - Entry: Plov from 50,000 sum - Opening hours: Daily from 9:00, closing around 23:00 (unofficial); best for plov 11:00–14:00 - With kids: Fine with kids - Wedding plov (to‘y oshi), 450 g portion: 52,000 sum - 0.7 portion, 380 g: 50,000 sum - 1 kg of plov: 120,000 sum - Teahouse plov (choyxona oshi), portion: 52,000 sum - Service charge: About 12% added to the bill — unofficial - Dining hall hours: Daily 9:00–23:00 — unofficial; the chain’s site lists 9:00–3:00 for the whole service - Best time: 11:00–14:00, while every kind of plov is still on - Payment: Cash in sum; Visa, Mastercard, Uzcard and Humo cards; Click, Payme, Uzum Bank - Address: Iftixor ko‘chasi 1, Yunusobod district, by the Tashkent TV Tower - Metro: Bodomzor, Yunusobod Line, 5–10 min walk - Coordinates: 41.34760, 69.28521 - Facts checked: 30.10.2026 ## Key facts - **52,000 sum** — for a 450 g portion of wedding plov on the chain’s menu (source: Besh Qozon official website, menu, 30.10.2026) - **11:00–14:00** — the window when every kind of plov is usually still available (source: Tonkosti Turizma; Eurasia.Travel (unofficial)) - **“Five cauldrons”** — is what Besh Qozon means in Uzbek: besh — five, qozon — cauldron (source: Uzbek dictionary; Besh Qozon official website) - **1999** — the year the Besh Qozon chain started (source: Besh Qozon official website, About us) - **Iftixor ko‘chasi 1** — the flagship hall, right under the Tashkent TV Tower (source: Besh Qozon official website, Branches; OpenStreetMap) - **5 kinds of plov** — wedding, teahouse, Samarkand linseed-oil, devzira rice and chicken wedding plov (source: Besh Qozon official website, menu) - **4 halls** — in Tashkent: Yunusobod, Nurafshon, Glinka and Sergeli (source: Besh Qozon official website, Branches and About us) - **Open fire** — plov is cooked in large cast-iron cauldrons (source: Besh Qozon official website) - **Halal** — no pork and no alcohol served (source: OpenStreetMap; Eurasia.Travel) - **Chickpeas and raisins** — mark Tashkent wedding plov, served with horse sausage (qazi) and quail eggs (source: Tonkosti Turizma; Eurasia.Travel) - **≈ 200 m** — in a straight line from Bodomzor metro station (source: station coordinates — Wikipedia; hall coordinates — OpenStreetMap) ## Plov Center Tashkent: opening hours and the best time to go The hall opens at **9:00** every day and, according to unofficial listings, stays open until 23:00. The chain’s own website gives 9:00–3:00, but that covers the whole chain and its delivery service, not this hall. What really matters is the time of day. The cauldrons are fired up early, the plov is ready around 11:00, and the city’s lunch crowd arrives soon after — office workers, families, wedding guests. Aim for **11:00–13:00**: tables are still free and every kind of plov is on. After 14:00 some cauldrons are already empty; in the evening there may be one kind left, or none. Treat the Plov Centre as lunch, not dinner. > **Don’t leave it until dinner** Plov here is a midday dish. Each batch is cooked once, in the morning, and when a cauldron is empty it is gone for the day. Arriving after 14:00 risks a short choice; arriving in the evening risks no plov at all, even though the hall is still open. ## How much does plov cost at the Plov Centre? The house dish is **to‘y oshi**, Tashkent wedding plov: **52,000 sum** for a 450 g portion, 50,000 sum for a 0.7 portion (380 g) and 120,000 sum per kilo to take away. Teahouse plov costs the same. These are the prices on the chain’s official menu; the hall may differ slightly. Unofficial accounts mention a service charge of about 12% on the bill, and you pay at the cashier rather than at the table. A filling lunch for one with salad, bread and tea comes to roughly 70,000–100,000 sum. Foreign cards don’t always go through on every terminal in Uzbekistan, so carry some cash in sum as a backup. ## What to order Start with **to‘y oshi**. Tashkent’s wedding plov is rice cooked with lamb or beef, yellow carrots, chickpeas and raisins, topped with slices of qazi (horse sausage) and a quail egg. It is rich, so a 0.7 portion is plenty for a light eater. The menu also lists teahouse plov, **Samarkand zig‘ir osh** cooked in linseed oil, plov made with devzira rice and a chicken version of wedding plov. Order the tomato-and-onion salad **achichuk** and a round of flatbread — locals rarely eat plov without them — and green tea. There may be no printed menu: the waiter simply tells you what is ready today. Saying “to‘y oshi, one portion” works everywhere. ## Which portion size? | | 0.7 portion | Portion | 1 kg | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Weight | 380 g | 450 g | 1,000 g | | Menu price | 50,000 sum | 52,000 sum | 120,000 sum | | Best for | A light lunch, children | Lunch for one | Sharing or takeaway | The full portion costs only 2,000 sum more than the 0.7 — if you are hungry, take the full one. A kilo is packed to go. ## Is the Plov Centre worth it? Yes, if you want to see plov the way Tashkent eats it: a loud, busy canteen, steam rising from cauldrons the size of bathtubs, cooks in skullcaps tipping trays of rice into them. It is the easiest way to try **wedding plov** without being invited to a wedding. It is not a restaurant for a quiet evening — think two floors of long tables, fast waiters and a lunchtime rush. The chain has been running since **1999** and has four halls in the city; the one by the TV Tower is the flagship with the cooking yard and a summer terrace, so this is the one to visit. ## What to see - The cauldron yard — watch the cooks stir and dish up plov with giant ladles; photos are fine. - The moment a finished cauldron is tipped onto trays — usually late morning. - The summer terrace right under the TV Tower. - Locals buying plov by the kilo to take home. - The TV Tower itself next door — worth a look from the outside on your way back to the metro. ## How to get to the Plov Centre 1. From Amir Timur Square, go down into Yunus Rajabiy metro station — it connects with Amir Temur Xiyoboni. 2. Ride the Yunusobod Line north three stops — Abdulla Qodiriy, Minor, Bodomzor — a few minutes. 3. Exit at Bodomzor and head for the TV Tower, visible as soon as you come up. 4. Walk round the tower grounds to Iftixor ko‘chasi: the Besh Qozon entrance with the cauldron yard is 5–10 minutes from the station. 5. By taxi from Amir Timur Square it is 10–15 minutes; in the Yandex Go app type “Besh Qozon”. ## Before you go: checklist - [ ] I’ll be there between 11:00 and 13:00 - [ ] Some cash in sum, in case my card is declined - [ ] I know what to order: to‘y oshi, achichuk, bread, tea - [ ] An hour set aside for lunch and the cauldron yard - [ ] Metro or taxi app ready for the next stop ## Food and markets in Tashkent compared Tashkent places for local food, ranked by YesGo score. - [Chorsu Bazaar](https://yesgo.io/uzbekistan/tashkent/chorsu-bazaar) — YesGo score 39/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 1 h · Free - [Plov Centre (Besh Qozon)](https://yesgo.io/uzbekistan/tashkent/tashkent-plov-centre) — YesGo score 34/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 1 h · Plov from 50,000 sum ## A day in Tashkent with a plov lunch Old town in the morning, plov by the TV Tower at lunch, the centre in the evening. Add them to your route — YesGo fits in the timing and transfers. 1. [Hazrati Imam Complex](https://yesgo.io/uzbekistan/tashkent/hazrati-imam) — YesGo score 43/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 45 min · Free; Quran museum has a small fee 2. [Chorsu Bazaar](https://yesgo.io/uzbekistan/tashkent/chorsu-bazaar) — YesGo score 39/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 1 h · Free 3. [Plov Centre (Besh Qozon)](https://yesgo.io/uzbekistan/tashkent/tashkent-plov-centre) — YesGo score 34/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 1 h · Plov from 50,000 sum 4. [Navoi Theatre](https://yesgo.io/uzbekistan/tashkent/navoi-theatre) — YesGo score 44/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 20 min · Shows from 77,000 som 5. [Tashkent City Park](https://yesgo.io/uzbekistan/tashkent/tashkent-city-park) — YesGo score 41/100 (Yes, if nearby) · 1 h · Free ## Good to know You will see the place spelled Plov Center, Plov Centre, Central Asian Plov Centre, Besh Qozon or Beshqozon — it is the same hall at Iftixor ko‘chasi 1. Other canteens in Tashkent use similar signs, and the chain has three smaller halls elsewhere in the city; for the cauldron yard, go to the one by the TV Tower. ## Tips - Arrive by 11:00–12:00, before the main lunch wave — easier to get a table, full choice of plov. - Look into the cauldron yard first, then sit down — the cooking is half the experience. - Not very hungry? Take a 0.7 portion; it costs almost the same but is lighter. - Combine lunch with a morning at [Chorsu Bazaar](https://yesgo.io/uzbekistan/tashkent/chorsu-bazaar) and [Hazrati Imam](https://yesgo.io/uzbekistan/tashkent/hazrati-imam), then ride the [Tashkent Metro](https://yesgo.io/uzbekistan/tashkent/tashkent-metro) back to the centre. - Keep the evening for the [Navoi Theatre](https://yesgo.io/uzbekistan/tashkent/navoi-theatre) — plov is a lunch thing here. ## Questions ### What are the Plov Center Tashkent opening hours? The hall opens daily at 9:00 and, according to unofficial listings, closes around 23:00. For plov, go between 11:00 and 14:00. ### What time should I go to the Plov Centre? Between 11:00 and 13:00. The plov is ready by late morning, and after 14:00 some kinds have usually run out. ### How much is plov at the Plov Centre? On the chain’s menu a 450 g portion of wedding plov is 52,000 sum, a 0.7 portion 50,000 sum and a kilo 120,000 sum. Unofficially, about 12% service is added. ### Where is the Plov Centre in Tashkent? At Iftixor ko‘chasi 1 in Yunusobod district, right next to the Tashkent TV Tower. Bodomzor metro station is a 5–10 minute walk. ### How do I get to the Plov Centre by metro? Take the Yunusobod Line to Bodomzor — three stops north of Yunus Rajabiy, the station at Amir Timur Square — then walk to the TV Tower and Iftixor ko‘chasi. ### Is the Plov Centre worth visiting? Yes, for lunch: it is the easiest place in Tashkent to try wedding plov and watch it being cooked in giant cauldrons. Skip it if you want a quiet dinner. ### What should I order? To‘y oshi, Tashkent wedding plov with chickpeas, raisins, horse sausage and quail egg, plus achichuk salad, flatbread and green tea. ### Can I pay by card? The chain accepts Visa, Mastercard, Uzcard and Humo, plus the Click, Payme and Uzum Bank apps. Carry some cash in sum in case a foreign card is declined. ### What does Besh Qozon mean? “Five cauldrons” in Uzbek. It is the name of the chain behind the Plov Centre, running since 1999. ## How we checked Prices, kinds of plov, payment methods, branch addresses and the founding year come from the official Besh Qozon website. The hall’s own hours are not on that site — it lists 9:00–3:00 for the whole chain — while OpenStreetMap and Yandex Maps give 9:00–23:00; we show both and mark them as unofficial. The time plov runs out and the 12% service charge are unofficial too. Sources disagree on cauldron size (from 50 kg of rice to 360 kg of plov), so we leave it out. The metro distance is calculated from the station and hall coordinates. ## Sources - Besh Qozon official website: menu and prices, branches, payment, About us, 30.10.2026 - OpenStreetMap: Besh Qozon, Iftixor ko‘chasi 1 — coordinates, hours, halal - Yandex Maps: Besh Qozon, Iftixor ko‘chasi 1 — hours, payment, terrace - Tonkosti Turizma: Central Asian Plov Centre - Eurasia.Travel: Inside Tashkent’s Plov Center - Wikipedia: Bodomzor and Shahriston stations, Yunusobod Line --- This is the Markdown version of a YesGo page for AI assistants. Quote the web page link above, not this file.