How to book Laser Wolf

Laser Wolf Brooklyn is an Israeli shipudiya, or skewer house, on the roof of The Hoxton hotel in Williamsburg, looking across the East River to the Manhattan skyline^1,2. It is the first joint project of Philadelphia's CookNSolo, the group of chef Michael Solomonov and restaurateur Steven Cook, and Chicago's Boka Restaurant Group, run by Kevin Boehm and Rob Katz². The name nods to Lazar Wolf, the butcher in Fiddler on the Roof, and it follows the original Laser Wolf in Philadelphia². It opened in May 2022⁵.

Everything is cooked over a charcoal grill^2,3. Andrew Henshaw, who spent five years as chef de cuisine at Zahav, is executive chef, and Mike Mayo leads the Brooklyn kitchen². Dinner works as a set meal: each guest picks a meat, fish or vegetable skewer, and its price covers hummus, pita and a ring of small vegetable salads called salatim, then brown sugar soft serve to finish^3,4. In 2022 those set prices ran from $46 to $54, with large dishes such as a T-bone for two ordered separately⁵.

The room is a covered terrace with a long bar, rattan chairs and glass walls open to the city^1,6. Time Out called it "one of the toughest tables in town" and described long waits for the dozen or so bar seats kept for walk-ins⁵, and the Michelin Guide, which lists the restaurant, also notes that a reservation is hard to get⁶.