Korean BBQ in Manhattan: West 32nd Street, Fifth Avenue and Five Rooms Beyond Koreatown

Six of the eighteen stand on West 32nd Street between Fifth Avenue and Broadway.

Jongro BBQ takes the second floor at 22 West 32nd Street, where marinated ribeye, skirt steak, short rib and chuck are grilled tabletop and served with banchan, and the staff work the tongs. Jongro BBQ Market is a separate room with its own door on the first floor at 39 West 32nd Street, where guests do the grilling at the table on an all-you-can-eat price; service runs to midnight Sunday through Thursday and to 1 a.m. on Friday and Saturday. New Wonjo is at 23 West 32nd Street, and it burns charcoal rather than gas under the grill at the table.

miss KOREA BBQ runs three floors at 10 West 32nd Street, with a hood over the grill at every table and the first floor given to barbecue seating. Antoya is at 37 West 32nd Street, where the cuts come out raw and the meat is grilled at the table; service runs to 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and to 1 a.m. on Friday and Saturday. Gaonnuri is on the 39th floor at 1250 Broadway, with its entrance on West 32nd Street, and tabletop grilling is the focus of the room.

Seven stand a block east and south of West 32nd Street, four of them on one stretch of Fifth Avenue.

Let's Meat is at 307 Fifth Avenue, where the operator states it serves table Korean barbecue exclusively, on a Cap-Style grill imported from Korea that drains the fat off as the meat cooks at the table. Gopchang Story takes the second floor at 312 Fifth Avenue, where staff crisp the beef intestine on the grill at the table. Nubiani takes the third floor at 315 Fifth Avenue, where the operator's own line reads "The grill is only one part of the table" and staff cook the sliced meat over the fire. LOVE Korean BBQ is at 319 Fifth Avenue, where the meat and a spread of vegetables go on the grill at the table, and an all-you-can-eat option runs at $100 per person.

Three more sit on the cross streets. Ahgassi Gopchang is at 1 East 32nd Street, where a slotted circular grate is recessed flush into the tabletop with raw sliced beef laid across it and banchan set around its rim. Howoo is at 7 East 31st Street, where a grill is set into the center of the table and several rounds of food arrive before the beef reaches it. Dons Bogam BBQ & Wine is at 17 East 32nd Street, where tabletop grills sit beside floor-level seating and an open kitchen, with a two-order minimum on the barbecue.

Five stand outside the Koreatown blocks, spread from West 22nd Street to East 58th.

Yoon Haeundae Galbi is at 8 West 36th Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in the Garment District, where a round grill is set flush into the center of each banquette tabletop and the extraction ducting runs down under the table base. Don Don is at 37 West 43rd Street, from chef Sungchul Shim, where guests grill the pork cuts at the table in a narrow room. Golden HOF / NY Kimchi is at 16 West 48th Street: downstairs, some tables carry a grill in the table itself, while the upstairs room is a pub-like bar without them.

Nubiani's second room is at 243 East 58th Street, covered by the same operator line as the Fifth Avenue floor, so the grill sits in the table there too. South of Koreatown, COTE Korean Steakhouse is at 16 West 22nd Street in the Flatiron District, where an integrated cooktop — a grill set into each table, under its own spotlight — does the cooking, and the room's air filtration takes the smoke and the smell of searing beef off without an overhead hood.