Lalaon

On our lists of the best special-occasion restaurants and restaurants with a view in New York.

Floor-to-ceiling windows frame the East River and the Manhattan skyline at this Korean barbecue spot on the Williamsburg waterfront. Indoor trees break up the dining room, and the house music stays low enough to talk over. Servers do the grilling tableside with silver tongs, working through a set progression of cuts: hanger steak and New York strip first, then a charred ribeye and diamond-cut short ribs. A tasting-style BBQ course folds in stews, banchan and dessert, priced close to Cote's Butcher's Feast across the river.