The Best Uyghur Food in the United States
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The best Uyghur food in the United States, according to the experts: the Michelin Guide, Boston Magazine, and the James Beard Awards have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Jahunger comes out on top, and the good stuff runs deepest in Boston and Seattle.
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Rank 1. Jahunger
Uyghur
Hand-pulled noodles are the whole point here, thick and chewy and landing somewhere between a bowl of Chinese noodles and a Middle Eastern lamb stew, which is exactly what Uyghur cooking is. Jahunger holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and a James Beard semifinalist nod, and the menu is short, halal, and unapologetic about spice. A Cambridge noodle shop that quietly draws a crowd happy to wait.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
- Boston Magazine Boston Magazine: #43 · Top 50 Restaurants in Boston
- James Beard Awards James Beard Awards: 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Northeast · Subat Dilmurat
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Boston Magazine #43 · Top 50 Restaurants in Boston
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Northeast · Subat Dilmurat
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Rank 2. Mom’s Uyghur Cuisine
Uyghur Noodle Shop
The awards
- Washingtonian The Hot List: 10 Restaurants Around DC We’re Loving Right Now
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Rank 3. Wild Cumin
Uyghur
A live-coal grill, the kind you'd see on a street corner in Xinjiang, sits in the kitchen of this Uyghur restaurant tucked into a Kent strip mall. The lamb skewers come off it cumin-crusted and properly smoky, the sort of thing that makes a food writer ask to see the back of the house. The menu covers the northwest Chinese canon: hand-pulled noodles, flatbreads, big plates of spiced meat.
The awards
- Seattle Met Lamb Skewers · The Best Things I Ate This Year