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Korean BBQ in Brooklyn: Gowanus, Downtown Brooklyn, Williamsburg and Surf Avenue

Brooklyn Korean BBQ, New York

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The City Point complex at Albee Square West, Downtown Brooklyn

Korean barbecue in Brooklyn is cooked on a grill set into the diner's own table, and six rooms in the borough work that way. Three of them are in Gowanus and Downtown Brooklyn: Insa at 328 Douglass Street, Atti at 294 Livingston Street, and a KPOT branch at 430 Albee Square West in the City Point complex. Two more are in Williamsburg, Dokebi Bar and Grill at 199 Grand Street and Lalaon at 22 North 6th Street, which opened in June 2026. The sixth is at 1217 Surf Avenue in Coney Island, twelve miles from Williamsburg. Five operators run the six rooms, two of them branches of the same all-you-can-eat chain, and the six addresses fall in four of Brooklyn's sixty-nine neighborhoods.

  1. Insa

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    328 Douglass Street, Gowanus. The staff do the grilling at the table, and the barbecue is served only at the indoor barbecue tables.

  2. Atti

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    294 Livingston Street, Downtown Brooklyn. Flat, brass-encircled grills are sunk into the centers of the tables and the meat is cooked at the table.

  3. 430 Albee Square West, in the City Point complex. A grill is set into the table beside an inset broth burner, on an all-you-can-eat service.

  4. 199 Grand Street, Williamsburg. A Korean BBQ grill sits in the center of each table, with the kitchen an alternative for the same order.

  5. 22 North 6th Street, Williamsburg. Two floors, opened in June 2026, with the barbecue cooked on grills built into the tables.

  6. 1217 Surf Avenue, Coney Island. A grill is set into the table with an inset hot-pot burner, and the last seating is an hour before closing.

Gowanus and Downtown Brooklyn

Three of the six stand between the Gowanus Canal and Flatbush Avenue Extension, on Douglass Street, Livingston Street and Albee Square West.

Insa is at 328 Douglass Street in Gowanus, and the staff do the grilling at the table. Its own food menu carries a 구이 barbecue section whose footnote restricts that service to the indoor barbecue tables. Indoor dining runs Wednesday 5:30pm to 9:30pm, Thursday to Saturday 5:30pm to 10pm and Sunday 4:30pm to 9pm, with Monday and Tuesday closed; the karaoke rooms run later, to 2am on Fridays and Saturdays.

Atti is at 294 Livingston Street, on the seam between Downtown Brooklyn and Boerum Hill. Flat, brass-encircled grills are sunk into the centers of the tables, and the restaurant's own site describes Korean BBQ cooked at the table while the side dishes are set out around it. Kuun, at 290 Livingston Street, is under the same ownership and cooks its Korean food in the kitchen.

KPOT Korean BBQ & Hot Pot is at 430 Albee Square West, in the City Point complex. A grill is set into the table with an inset burner beside it for hot-pot broth, and guests grill their own cuts of meat at the table on an all-you-can-eat service. The location publishes a last seating an hour or more before each night's close, from 9:30pm on Mondays and Tuesdays to 12:30am on Fridays and Saturdays.

Williamsburg

Williamsburg carries two, one inland on Grand Street and one on the East River waterfront.

Dokebi Bar and Grill is at 199 Grand Street. The operator's own locations page puts a Korean BBQ grill in the center of each table and the cooking is done at the table, with the alternative of handing the same order to the kitchen; the operator describes this as its flagship and the largest of its three locations. Reservations of four or more are taken on Fridays and Saturdays for grill tables. Published hours run noon to 11pm Sunday to Thursday and noon to midnight on Fridays and Saturdays.

Lalaon is at 22 North 6th Street, at the Kent Avenue end, and opened in June 2026. It spreads across two floors and centers on Korean barbecue cooked on grills built into the tables, with servers working the meat using silver tongs. The barbecue set menu is priced at $80, and published hours run 5pm to 11pm Sunday to Thursday and 5pm to midnight on Fridays and Saturdays.

Surf Avenue, Coney Island

The sixth room is at the far south end of the borough, twelve miles from Williamsburg.

KPOT Korean BBQ & Hot Pot is at 1217 Surf Avenue, at the West Brighton edge of Coney Island. The hardware is the chain's own: a grill set into the table with an inset hot-pot burner alongside it, and guests grill their own cuts at the table. Published hours run 12:30pm to 11pm Monday to Thursday and 12:30pm to midnight Friday to Sunday, with the last seating one hour before closing. The other Brooklyn branch under the same name is at 430 Albee Square West.

Frequently asked questions

What is tabletop Korean BBQ, and what counts as one?
Tabletop Korean barbecue means the grill is set into the diner's own table and the meat is cooked there, whether the party works the grate or a server does. A brass grate sunk into the table center, a grill built into a two-floor dining room's tables, and a chain format that sets a grill into the table beside an inset hot-pot burner all count. A Korean fried chicken counter, a ramen bar, a kimbap counter and a kitchen that grills bulgogi and sends it out already cooked all fail that definition, however Korean the menu is. Hometown Bar-B-Que at 454 Van Brunt Street in Red Hook is Texas barbecue, and the hot-pot-and-grill houses on the Eighth Avenue corridor in Sunset Park and Borough Park are Chinese and Japanese.
Where in Brooklyn are the grill tables?
In four neighborhoods. Gowanus has Insa at 328 Douglass Street. Downtown Brooklyn has Atti at 294 Livingston Street and KPOT at 430 Albee Square West, in the City Point complex. Williamsburg has Dokebi Bar and Grill at 199 Grand Street and Lalaon at 22 North 6th Street. Coney Island has KPOT at 1217 Surf Avenue. Brooklyn is divided into sixty-nine neighborhoods, so sixty-five of them carry none of these six rooms.
Do the staff do the grilling, or does the party?
It varies by room. At Insa the staff grill the barbecue at the table. At Dokebi Bar and Grill a party may cook at the table or hand the same order to the kitchen, which cooks the identical cuts. At the two KPOT rooms, at 430 Albee Square West and 1217 Surf Avenue, guests grill their own cuts of meat at the table. At Lalaon the grills are built into the tables and servers work the meat with silver tongs. Atti's own site describes the barbecue as cooked at the table on a grill, with side dishes served while the grill runs.
What are the opening hours?
Insa's indoor dining runs Wednesday 5:30pm to 9:30pm, Thursday to Saturday 5:30pm to 10pm and Sunday 4:30pm to 9pm, closed Monday and Tuesday, with the karaoke rooms open to 2am on Fridays and Saturdays. Atti publishes 4pm to 11pm Monday to Friday and 11:30am to 11pm Friday to Sunday. Dokebi Bar and Grill runs noon to 11pm Sunday to Thursday and noon to midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. Lalaon runs 5pm to 11pm Sunday to Thursday and 5pm to midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. The Albee Square West KPOT runs noon to 10:30pm Monday and Tuesday, noon to 1am Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday, and noon to 2am Friday and Saturday; the Surf Avenue KPOT runs 12:30pm to 11pm Monday to Thursday and 12:30pm to midnight Friday to Sunday. Both KPOT rooms publish a last seating ahead of closing.
Is all-you-can-eat a different format from tabletop barbecue?
All-you-can-eat is a pricing model rather than a grill format. The two KPOT rooms are branches of the same chain and price the meal that way, and the grill is still set into the table with the guests cooking on it. Lalaon prices a barbecue set menu at $80 instead. Neither model changes where the meat is cooked.
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