Uzbek cuisine, once a rarity in Pittsburgh, is now capturing the city's curiosity. Post-Gazette dining critic Hal B. Klein caught the early ebb of the wave about a year ago as he began reporting for the fourth installment of our Pittsburgh Dumpling Project. What he learned was that two seemingly ordinary pizza shops — Pizza Bella Monte in the West End and Downtown’s Pizza Bari — were gradually adding Uzbek dishes to feed people in their growing community. Over the past year or so, Bella Monte has dropped the pizza mantle entirely and rebranded as Chaykhana, while Pizza Bari has pushed its Uzbek menu more prominently as a slew of new, proudly front-facing restaurants opened. At the link in our bio, Klein breaks down the rise in Uzbek cuisine in Pittsburgh, where to go and what to order. 📝&🎙: halbklein/Post-Gazette Editing: Kristen Mohammadi/Post-Gazette #pittsburgh #uzbek #dumpling #pgeats