Rokhat Bakery

Rokhat Bakery opened in 1994, founded by brothers Roshiel and Rafael Samekhov after they emigrated from Uzbekistan to the United States in 1992, and it now anchors a stretch of Austin Street that sits on the Forest Hills/Rego Park line in Queens — different directories list it under each neighborhood, and both are correct for the same address. The bakery's own site calls itself a "Traditional Kosher Bukharian Bakery" carrying "four generations of Silk Road tradition," and states its clay tandoor ovens were built by hand, using local clay and straw, to the dimensions of historic Silk Road bakery ovens.

The daily work is built around tandoor bread rather than pastry: Obi Non, a hand-stamped round loaf, Patir (also called lepeshka, a soft flatbread), and whole wheat Kulcha are baked fresh from 4 a.m., alongside crisp, triangular meat- or pumpkin-filled samsas. Culinary Backstreets and Atlas Obscura, in independent coverage of Rego Park's Bukharian Jewish community, describe the walk-in tanoor itself as roughly the size of an industrial refrigerator, and Atlas Obscura calls the shop "a little slice of Central Asia" within Queens.

The bakery carries kosher certification from the Vaad Harabonim of Queens, and current listings (Yelp, updated as of this year) show it operating on regular posted hours, Monday through Sunday with a shortened Friday close. Central Asia's own tandyr-bread tradition proved to have no individually named, verifiably operating bakery with a fetchable web presence inside Uzbekistan or its neighbors on this search pass — Rokhat, run by the same founding family since 1994, is offered as the diaspora bakery genuinely dedicated to that bread.