Best Tasting Menus in Brooklyn
Four Brooklyn restaurants serve tasting menus in our guide. Enso in Williamsburg is a 10-seat omakase counter with a 16-course edomae-style menu. The wine program has sake and craft cocktails, and Enso holds a Michelin Plate.
6 Restaurant in Carroll Gardens pairs a six-seat counter with a six-course menu by Executive Chef Nico Bouter and also serves a la carte. The wine program holds a Michelin Plate for 2025.
Dept of Culture in Bedford-Stuyvesant (West) serves a modern North-Central Nigerian tasting menu at a communal table hosted by Chef Ayo Balogun, a James Beard Award Semi Finalist in 2025.
Arthur in Greenpoint offers a tasting menu and a la carte service, with a wine program of natural wine, and a Michelin Plate for 2026.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants serving a tasting menu or omakase, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
6 Restaurant
A six-seat tasting counter and six-course menu give this Carroll Gardens spot its name and its logic. Executive Chef Nico Bouter runs contemporary dishes with European and South American inflections alongside a full à la carte menu for the main room. Exposed brick, dark blue walls, and an open kitchen make it equally suited to a considered date night or a meal with friends.
Arthur
Arthur brings a Parisian bistro sensibility to New York, threading French technique through a New American frame in a city where that crossover has long defined the upper-middle tier of serious dining. The kitchen operates in a register that feels neither nostalgic nor trend-chasing, a balance that rewards regulars and first-timers alike. For a city with many ambitious French-inflected rooms, Arthur holds its own lane.
Bao House (宝屋)
Bao House (宝屋) has held a place on the Opinionated About Dining Casual in Asia list for three consecutive years, reaching as high as #51 in 2023. Operating as a food truck format in Beijing, it represents the kind of stripped-back, technique-driven casual dining that OAD's panel consistently rewards. For the Beijing casual scene, it is a reliable reference point.
Dept of Culture
Dept of Culture on Nostrand Avenue brings Nigerian cooking into one of Brooklyn's most culturally layered corridors, where chef Ayo Balogun works in a register that sits apart from the city's formal fine-dining circuit. Recognised by Opinionated About Dining in 2025, it occupies the casual end of a growing conversation about West African cuisine in New York, earning.
Enso
Enso Brooklyn brings edomae-style omakase to Williamsburg's Berry Street, where Chef Nick Wang's counter format moves through layered otsumami and precisely sourced nigiri, blue mackerel cured in Okinawan sea salt, Hokkaido sea urchin over rice, at a pace that reflects the discipline of the tradition rather than the speed of the neighbourhood. À la carte options keep the bar and garden accessible without diluting the counter experience.
Planning tasting menus in Brooklyn
- Which tasting menus on this list are served at a counter?
- Enso in Williamsburg and 6 Restaurant in Carroll Gardens are the counters on this list. Enso is a 10-seat omakase counter with a wine list, plus sake and craft cocktails. 6 Restaurant is a six-seat tasting counter with a wine list, and it also serves a la carte.
- Which restaurant on this list pours natural wine?
- Arthur in Greenpoint, a French bistro, is the only restaurant on this tasting-menu list with natural wine. The wine program includes natural wine. Arthur serves that program with a tasting menu and with a la carte service.
- Which restaurants on this list hold a Michelin Plate?
- On this tasting-menu list in our guide to Brooklyn, Arthur in Greenpoint holds a Michelin Plate award for 2026, 6 Restaurant in Carroll Gardens holds a Michelin Plate for 2025, and Enso in Williamsburg holds a Michelin Plate for 2025.
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