A new restaurant, City Kebab House, offering Turkish and Uzbek cuisine opened this month with traditional kebabs, wraps, pitas, drinks and desserts.

My favorite of the spread was the Uzbek Samsa ($4 each), a large, flaky pastry that is stuffed with lamb and beef, onions and spices, and cooked in a tandoor oven. Chicken shwarma from Jasmine Syrian.

Samsa, a traditional Central Asian street food, is pastry stuffed with chopped lamb, onion and spices. EMayne ...

We visited Samsa Markazi, a popular restaurant in Namangan, Uzbekistan, that makes 20 different types of samsas and sells nearly 3,000 of them every weekend.

This warming soup in Fairfield will leave you hankering for all things Uzbek.