BangBang Bangkok

Listen, we get it. You really want to tell your date about that time you backpacked through Thailand after college. Show them instead, at this Thai tasting menu restaurant in Williamsburg. Built by the Mao Mao team, the narrow dining room looks like the inside of a bus, with school bus-style seats for two. As the host delivers each of your 10 courses from an airline trolley, footage of Bangkok’s street scene rolls by on screens that wrap around the bus like in an IMAX theater. The $155 menu features Thai food cooked with French technique, and added flair. Think lobster tom kha gai poured from a tea kettle, and a deconstructed papaya salad with som tum sorbet. Each bite is both familiar and surprising, and just as impressive as the production around you.