I love this place. I recommend it to all my friends it's a great way to try something different…read more And for me, it always feels like eating a home-cooked meals. The staff here are very friendly and happy to make recommendations and tell you about every dish on the menu. The atmosphere is very pleasant; those from Central Asia will feel as if they're sitting in a café back home.

Nursel Restaurant remains a favorite for me and my best friend. We visited on May 1, 2026- our…read morefourth time visiting as we both are always craving Russian and Uzbek flavors. The main drawback is a strong cleaning-product scent in the dining area upon entering and on the napkins, which is distracting for someone like myself who has a sensitive sense of smell. We ordered spinach and cheese samsy, chicken stroganoff, and borscht. The samsy was flaky, fresh, and paired nicely with vinegar. The stroganoff was creamy and comforting, though the rice was a bit firmer than we'd like. The borscht was tangy and hot, just what we needed on this brisk evening. Overall, we love Nursel and will return, hoping for a subtler atmosphere and perhaps a softer rice texture.

This was an incredible experience. Have the khinkali dumplings and the khachapuri adjaruli with a…read moreglass of amber wine! Also make sure to ask for Dianna - she knows exactly how to make you feel at b

The food was delightful!! Highly recommended, and the barman was fantastic. service!!read more

Very authentic Russian restaurant. Delicious European food and great service. Thank you Emil.read more

Ever find a place to be...lacking hospitality to new faces in a restaurant?…read more Let's talk about the service first. We came on a Friday night and there were 2-3 other tables. Our server did not give us a breakdown of any dish, or even the categories on the menu (which by the way, are in Russian). They kinda expected us to "know" everything on the menu. My wife and I ended up googling EVERYTHING, and deciding on what to eat after reading other yelp reviews and what the dishes looked like. After taking a good 10mins of googling and figuring out what to order, we had to raise our hand several times, to a point where we had to call our waiter over vocally and with a hand wave to take our order. The restaurant really isn't big with only 2 other tables being occupied, and I guess locals do come here often and chat with the servers, but we're talking a good extra 5min of not looking at a menu and just waiting. People are raving about the service but I personally just didn't experience the same kind of hospitality. We ordered a borsch, a beef stroganoff, and a viennese schnitzel. I wouldn't say the food came out slow, but it was at the pace of a homecooked meal. The borsh tasted a lot better than ones I've had, and the sour cream was very creamy and fresh. The beef stroganoff was the star of the show with how flavorful and creamy it was. The beef was very tender, and the kasha was especially good. It's definitely enough to fill one person up. The viennese schnitzel is basically a fried pork cutlet (like a katsu) but with different seasonings and paired with some kind of red sauce. The mashed potatoes...were just mashed potatoes. The portion felt a little small for the price for what you get, pork cutlet and mashed potatoes being $27. I can see how authentic this place is, but being tucked so far away in Richmond naturally gets it lower foot traffic than other more accessible spots. The food is delicious and if people are willing to take their grandparents here, then you know it's authentic. I just wish the service was more attentive. The portions to price ratio was also pretty low, and I left feeling a little hungry despite spending $75 before tax and tip for 2. This place is feels more geared to reminiscing a childhood flavor with the family over a date night IMO.

I saw Nafisa's Table at the Heart of the Richmond night market and decided to give them a try since…read moreI have very rarely seen Uzbek restaurants in the bay. I ordered a potato and onion piroshki, which was yummy, savory, and quite fried indeed. I'm happy they had more than one vegetarian option available.

What a treat to have a tent dedicated to Uzbek cuisine. It seems like there's multiple…read morepermutations of filling stuffed in dough that's either baked or fried or steamed. Everything I tried was delish! Cheese & Dill Chebureki: Unlike anything I've had before and I've had a lot of savory filled dough things! The cheese is stretchy and salty and delicious. The fresh dill is a perfect herbal contrast to all that richness. The dough is light and airy and crispy, just fried to order. Also nice with that red sauce that comes on the side Potato & Onion Piroshki: Another deep fried dough pastry. More dough and more filling than the chebureki. Kinda felt like Italian fried dough. Though the filling was definitely not Italian, with subtle smooth potatoes and caramelized onions. Surprisingly light for deep fried. Lamb Samsa: A flaky baked dough with dense bits of lamb inside. The dough on the bottom was particularly dense and hard. Wasn't crazy about the texture, but the taste was solid. Lamb Pigodi: Essentially a giant steamed dumpling, cut open and stuffed with shredded carrot salad. It was difficult to eat with the plastic spork provided. That aside, it had nicely spiced minced lamb filling and lots of thick dough outside. Shashlik Wrap: Fluffy pita bread made by them, not from a plastic bag. Lots of fresh veggies and herbs. The onions and carrot slaw give a nice tang. Plus skewers of lamb for that nice pita combination. The lamb came on skewers, so you had to pull it off. Didn't seem grilled to order, but was probably grilled a tad earlier in the day.

I am so happy we finally got an opportunity to have home-cooked Russian comfort food in Monterey…read morepeninsula. We used to drive to SJ/ SF area just to get borsch or piroshki, and now we can order all this from Sofia's. For our first time, we ordered lamb rice pilaf for 6 people, vinaigrette salad and sweet strawberry cream cheese pie. It was a real feast! Not only it was yummy (the lamb was melting in the mouth and the pie was better than the ones I tried from the local bakeries), the portions were huge, so we still have some pilaf left in our freezer. The communication was very easy and we even requested the pie off the menu. Our friends and family really liked the food (even though they never tried Russian dishes before). I highly recommend this if you want to try good quality Russian food. It also a great service for big parties, holidays or as an easy meal prep if you are enable to cook/ have children .

Wow!! Did not expect to find authentic home made Russian food in our own backyard. We used to eat…read moreRussian cuisine more living in LA, but being back north, it has been hard to find good places. I might even say that Mama Sofia's food surpasses some of the food we've had in restaurants. We picked up from their home in a quaint neighborhood - it took a minute to wait for the food to be packed up to take home, but it was worth the wait, as most of it was still warm from just being prepared. A couple recommendations on what to get: eggplant/tahini dip, borscht (perfect flavoring and ratio of beets/cabbage to soup), blinchiki (beef, chicken), pastry with cream cheese and strawberry jam (but make sure you have people to share this with!)