For "grown up" diners only

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“Surely you have a table sir.”

I just read a fun article from the archives of Gourmet Magazine. The writer was charged with attempting to get into the schmooziest restaurants in New York without a reservation.

It was an exercise in the well planned and executed tipping of the Maître d’.  By the time the author was done making the rounds of New York's finest eateries he was 10 pounds heavier and feeling like Fred Astaire. Great read.