🎟️ Hardest Reservations

A time capsule of red leather and tableside carving carts. Basically one thing on the menu, perfected since 1949. Book ahead, order the Englishman cut.

Dim-sum-style carts of inventive small plates wheeled to your table. The namesake quail is the move. Came for the buzz, stayed for the pancakes.

The pasta-and-pizza temple that made reservations a sport. Handmade pasta, blistered Neapolitan pies, a tasting menu if you're game. Worth the angling.

Most-hyped 2025 pizza opening with sold-out sourdough pies

Prepaid Tock tickets drop monthly and vanish for the two-Michelin-star dinner

Ten seats and a reservation list that took a critic two years to crack

Buzzy seafood-Mexican from the Dalida team with tough tables

Galbi so legendary you'll happily join a month-long waitlist.

One nightly seating for a 10-12 course katsu menu, extremely limited

Hard-to-book Cantonese hit nailing funky, salty, sweet flavors