情人节距离酒店有两个多星期的距离，众所周知，庆祝的唯一正确方法是将您的甜心带到一家超级天赋的餐厅，吃巧克力和牡蛎和香槟，从覆盖着散落的玫瑰花瓣的白色桌布上。（（And it’s on a Friday this year, so regular 9-5 working stiffs can really go wild with the champagne!) Alas, if you want to perform a real act of love and fealty by trying to obtain the toughest restaurant in the country, and you haven’t gotten around to it by now, well then, I’m sorry to tell you that you’re too late. I mean, I’m sure you knew this already, just like you know that you’re probably not going to fly on a private jet to another city and stay in a suite at the Ritz or whatever, but this is really my way of easing into today’s bit of restaurant trivia, which is a美国最艰难的餐厅预订清单
列表，由每日饭并由芝加哥论坛报，基于评论，开放式餐桌和米其林的数据以及餐厅网站的自我报告的等待时间。（不，白城堡不在。这最困难的保留地，但我愿意将我的钱放在纽约伯尔顿的Damon Baehrel上（尽管2016纽约人故事提出了可能是精心欺诈的可能性）。Other restaurants rely on baroque systems, such as The Lost Kitchen in Freedom, Maine, which requires diners to send in their reservation requests via snail mail (imagine!) and Talula’s Table in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, where “reservations are accepted exactly one year to the day, and the first caller at 7 a.m. Eastern gets the table the following year.” (Talula’s Table also only seats parties with a minimum of four people, so it’s not quite the place for an intimate dinner一个DEUX。
另一方面，如果您愿意在日程安排上更加灵活，例如定居午餐而不是晚餐，或者在晚上10点用餐，则可以在此清单上有很多其他地方可以得到一张桌子。您仍然获得吹牛的权利，您可以用有关您如何在那里吃饭以及它有多惊人的故事打动您的朋友，他们仍然可以忽略您。