Cafe Lily

This place has real authentic food at Korean/Uzbek style. I really enjoyed the taste food, because it is cooked according to real recipes. It is possible to order takeout. I am very grateful to my friends who recommended this place to me.

Stellar Koryo Saram food. Learned about this restaurant years ago and finally made the long trip from upstate NY to try it. Wonderful experience and worth the trip. Ordered the kuksi, lagman, and plov. All fantastic. Plov was much more flavorful and well seasoned than other places I've been. Good amount of meat too. Kuksi in particular was outstanding. I've eaten a lot of guksu and naengmyeon, the kuksi here is without exaggerating the best I've ever had, out of any Korean noodles I've eaten, cold or hot. Something about the toppings just made it perfect. Felt like I was in somebody's home having a lovely heartfelt dinner. Honest, wholesome, and unique food. A great meal and restaurant with a lot of cultural and historical significance.

The first time we went, there were three of us. We ordered one bowl of noodles, and the waitress brought three. I thought okay maybe I didn't make myself clear and just packed two bowls away. The second time we went, the same thing almost happened. It took her a long time to understand that we wanted a total of one, not one per person. The taste was good though.

One of my friend from the past leaked that there is this Korean-Uzbek restaurant somewhere deep south in Brooklyn. It was such a random cuisine I’ve ever heard of, so never forgot about it for many years and somehow managed to search it out from Google map. Btw, I’m Korean. -Koosi: Very strange and yet familiar taste at the same time. What I mean is that I can’t exactly name any Korean dish that is equivalent to this one, but the taste hits my mother tongue and old memory. I loved it and wish I could have this more often. …. . . -Manti: Dumpling skin was very nice and something I was familiar with, but the inside is something quite different from Korean cuisine, so I suspect it’s more Uzbek type. Sour cream was really no no combination for me though. -Egg saladforgot exact name: can’t say this menu was anything special, but have to say I enjoyed it very very much. And it also went very well with the breads we ordered as side menu. My guess is that the owner herself or her great grandfathers are those who had to escape from Korea during Korean war ?. I regret so much for not talking to the owner who kindly came to us, introduced herself, and offered serving foods for us. Will def make my visit again sometime later.

Great place for over priced food. Keeping this real, this establishment is a spacious cozy place. The food is tasty, but if you haven't tried this restaurant out, yet, you are not missing anything big. The portions and plates sizes are a bit on the small size. Parking: Parking on street.

Amazing food and good service, this spot is also byob!

Empty restaurant on Friday night should be a red flag . Flavorless salad, ok manty, just ok plovFood: 2/5

So lovely a place. Delicious food, friendly people, and cozy vibes. Highly recommend a cold noodlekuksi! Just only for Kuksi, it was totally worth about over 1 hour trip to Brooklyn Bensonhurst. I’d visit again to try other foods too!

Was really looking forward to try this place, however for the prices the portions are very small. About $10 for a soup and it was the smallest I’ve ever seen. Maybe dining it would be better.

This place is definitely unique! If you love korean food and never had uzbeki korean food you have to come try it. The other place that is well known for this cuisine is in Brighton Beach but they serve the same type of food. We got the assorted korean salads, manty, meat keh, and kuksi. If you’ve had korean food before the salad was basically a set of 3 banchan, manty was a cross between a mandu and a pierogi, meat keh was similar to korean stir fried spicy pork, and the kuksi was bibim naengmyeon. The food was amazing. I personally liked the manty because who doesn’t like dumplings? It comes with sour cream and there’s so much meat in it! The meat khe was pretty good too and spicy. It comes with a side of rice. They have an outdoor area but when I went it was nearing winter so definitely want to come back when it is nicer out to check it out.