Tashkent Supermarket Opens Fifth New York Location in West Village
Tashkent Supermarket has opened its newest location in New York's West Village in 2025, marking the chain's fifth store in the city. The first Tashkent opened in Coney Island in 2012, founded by Odiljon Tursunov and his family after Hurricane Sandy. Since then, the company has expanded to include five New York locations as well as a wholesale sausage company and slaughterhouse in New Jersey.
The market specializes in Central Asian foods such as manty, plov, samsas, chak-chak, and kompot, featuring a popular hot bar with plov and samsas. It sources many products from the former Soviet Union, including cheeses from Georgia, bread from Ukraine, and nuts and raisins from Uzbekistan, blending these with American goods.
The West Village store aims to attract both longstanding Central Asian immigrant customers and new locals, offering a cross-generational, multicultural shopping experience. The popularity of the store has been bolstered by social media since March 2025, with food bloggers highlighting the hot bar and other offerings. Notably, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has publicly praised the supermarket’s manty, reflecting growing political attention.
Prices for hot foods at the West Village location have risen by at least $1 this year, attributed to Manhattan’s real estate costs and the impact of congestion pricing on delivery expenses. The supermarket operates within the context of a significant population of more than 1.2 million people from former Soviet republics living in the United States as of 2019.
