Williamsburg.

Sheep’s milk cheese agnolotti with saffron, dried tomato and honey; mafaldini with pink peppercorn and Parmigiano.

A refurbished auto-body shop, now a bright white loft of 76 seats with concrete floors and tall stacks of firewood.

Chef Missy Robbins’ handmade pasta and wood-fired cooking. Open since January 2016; the owners say people still line up before opening every night.

Book on Resy or by email; tables release 28 days ahead at 10 a.m. Bar seats are first come, first served: come by 4 p.m. to put your name down.

Oysters from a list of more than thirty varieties; absinthe from what the house calls the largest selection in the United States.

Patinated walls and a marble-topped horseshoe bar in a New Orleans-style room, with a back garden open April to November.

A specialist oyster bar and absinthe café; winner of the James Beard Foundation’s 2016 award for Outstanding Bar Program.

Resy books dining room and garden tables for up to six, up to a month ahead. The bar takes walk-ins. Oyster happy hour is not currently offered.

Dinner at Le Crocodile, the hotel’s all-day French brasserie; a drink at Bar Blondeau, six floors up, facing the Manhattan skyline.

High ceilings, original industrial details, heavy Southern Yellow Pine timbers and worn masonry; beds built from reclaimed factory timber.

A 1901 cooperage by Brooklyn architect Theobald Engelhardt, later a textile factory, converted into a hotel that keeps its original fabric.

Le Crocodile serves breakfast through dinner; Bar Blondeau runs dinner to late night, plus Sunday afternoon tea.

Walk the elevated walkway among 21 columns saved from the Raw Sugar Warehouse; see the syrup tanks and the two 80-foot gantry cranes at the north end.

A 1,200-foot esplanade on the East River, Grand Street to the Williamsburg Bridge, with the Manhattan skyline across the water.

Designed by James Corner Field Operations around more than 30 salvaged artifacts from the Domino sugar refinery; opened June 2018.

Open daily 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. Bocce, volleyball, a dog run and a playground; the suspended catwalk runs from the north end to the platform above Tacocina.

The sizzling Porterhouse, broiled and served with its buttery jus; Luger’s Sizzling Bacon, extra thick by the slice.

Wood-paneled dining rooms with brisk, good-humored servers, at the foot of the Williamsburg Bridge.

Opened in 1887 and run by the Forman family since 1950; USDA Prime beef hand-selected and dry-aged on site.

No credit cards: cash, US debit card, US check with ID or a Peter Luger Card. Book by phone or Resy. The Luger-Burger is served daily until 3:45 p.m.

The 12-to-14-course tasting menu ($375), cooked in an open kitchen; it follows the season, so courses change. Wine pairings from $250.

A dark, all-black warehouse space under the Williamsburg Bridge, serving only ten tables a night.

Swedish-born chef Fredrik Berselius pairs Nordic technique with Northeastern ingredients; two stars in the 2025 MICHELIN Guide. Aska is Swedish for ashes.

Open Wednesday to Sunday, 5 to 11 p.m. Book on OpenTable, by phone or by email. Smart casual.

The bread with fennel-pollen butter, then the veal sweetbread skewers; chef Nick Curtola’s short menu changes with the seasons.

A small room of globe lights and cedar-slat ceilings.

A natural and minimal-intervention wine list, one star in the 2025 MICHELIN Guide, and part-owned by LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy.

Reservations open online about a month ahead and go fast. Walk-ins are taken; arrive at opening. The affiliated bar Nightmoves is next door.

A pour-over or draft cold brew, with a guava croissant or a dulce de leche kouign-amann.

An exposed-brick corridor opens into a skylit room under a pitched roof, with Colombian greenery and a sunlit courtyard.

Coffee sourced from Colombia and roasted in Brooklyn, reaching the cup as fast as ten days from origin. The café doubles as Devoción’s training lab.

Open 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays, 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekends. Bring your own cup for 25¢ off.

In summer, swim in the 1936 pool; the rest of the year, the fields host kickball, soccer, bocce and tennis.

Open fields and courts around Aymar Embury II’s arched pool building; the pool itself measures 329 by 151 feet.

The eighth of eleven giant pools built by the Works Progress Administration. Closed in 1984, it reopened as a pool and play center in 2012.

Pool season only: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., closed 3 to 4 p.m. for cleaning. Bring a combination lock; cover up only in a plain white shirt or white hat.

See a show from the raked floor, which slopes down toward the stage, or from the horseshoe mezzanine above it.

A former steel fabrication plant: 20,000 square feet, raised platforms, a horseshoe mezzanine and three bars, the lobby bar built from the shop’s scrap metal.

Opened by The Bowery Presents in April 2017 with an LCD Soundsystem residency, billed then as Brooklyn’s largest general-admission venue.

Tickets through AXS. Most shows are all ages; check each event. No oversized bags, GoPros or video cameras.