Chorsu Bazaar food tour and Tashkent Metro with guide

Chorsu Bazaar's market stalls and the Tashkent Metro's underground galleries in one morning

A 4-hour guided food tour in Tashkent that starts at Chorsu Bazaar, where you taste dried fruits, kurut cheese, non bread, samsas, and Korean salads straight from vendor stalls, then descends into the Tashkent Metro to walk through stations decorated with Soviet-era mosaics, marble columns, and chandeliers. Pickup from your Tashkent location is included, as are metro tickets and a tasting of authentic plov at a local restaurant.

Step-by-step itinerary

Tashkent food and metro exploration

• Visit Chorsu Bazaar market
• Taste local delicacies at the bazaar
• Explore Tashkent Metro stations
• Admire Soviet-era metro art
• Enjoy traditional plov at Besh Qozon

The experience

Chorsu Bazaar is where the tour begins: a centuries-old marketplace in the center of Tashkent where vendors sell spices, fresh produce, handcrafted goods, and traditional Uzbek delicacies. You move through the stalls tasting as you go: naturally sweet dried fruits, tangy kurut cheese, warm non bread, flaky samsas fresh from the oven, vibrant Korean salads, and other local specialties. The guide walks with you, explaining what you're tasting and pointing out the rhythms of daily life in the market.

After the bazaar, you head into the Tashkent Metro, one of Central Asia's most visually striking underground networks. Each station is its own gallery: intricate mosaics, marble columns, vibrant Soviet-era designs that tell the city's history through art and architecture. You travel through several stations, seeing how the design and decoration shift from one to the next. The metro is both a working transit system and a museum of the city's past.

The tour ends at the Besh Qozon Plov Center, a bustling restaurant famous for serving Tashkent's best plov. You watch as chefs cook the rice, meat, vegetables, and spices in large, round kazan pots, then sit down to eat a traditional Uzbek meal. The whole experience (market, metro, and food) takes about four hours and covers the essentials of how Tashkent eats, moves, and remembers itself.

What’s included

• Pickup from your Tashkent location.
• market tastings including dried fruits, nuts, kurut, bread, and sweets.
• metro tickets for all stations on the route.
• accompaniment by a local guide throughout.
• tasting of authentic Uzbek plov varieties at Besh Qozon Plov Center.
• a traditional Uzbek meal.

Before you book

Days and timesEvery day6 departure times: the first at 10:00, the last at 15:00

Book up to12h before

AgesAdult (13 and older) · Child (2 to 12 years)

GroupPrivate

Live guideEnglish, Polish and Russian

Meeting point and pickupHotel pickup included.

Cancellation and refundsFree cancellation up to 24 h before the start. After that, no refund.

Prices and times updated 2 days ago

Good to know

Low physical effortPublic transport nearby

Operated by Craft and Culture

Is this one for you?Four hours is long enough to move unhurried through the bazaar, explore several metro stations, and sit down for a full plov meal, but short enough to leave the rest of your day open for other parts of Tashkent.

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Top questions

What languages is the tour guided in?

Live guide in English, Russian and Polish.

Can children come?

Yes. Ticket types: Child (2 to 12 years).

What kind of food do you taste at Chorsu Bazaar on this tour?

At Chorsu Bazaar, you taste dried fruits, nuts, kurut cheese, non bread, samsas, Korean salads, and other local Uzbek specialties as you walk through the market stalls with your guide.

What is the Tashkent Metro like, and how much time do you spend there?

The Tashkent Metro is an underground gallery of intricate mosaics, marble columns, and Soviet-era chandeliers. Each station reflects a different chapter of the city's history and design. You explore several stations during the tour as part of the overall 4-hour experience.

Is the plov tasting included, and where does it happen?

Yes, the tour includes an authentic Uzbek plov tasting at the Besh Qozon Plov Center, a renowned local restaurant where chefs prepare the dish traditionally in large kazan pots. You sit down for a traditional Uzbek meal there.

Does pickup from my hotel come with this tour?

Yes, pickup from any location in Tashkent is included in the tour price.

Are metro tickets included, or do I need to buy them separately?

Metro tickets for all stations visited during the tour are included.