Trendy restaurants come and go, generating lots of media buzz and remaining impossibly crowded and difficult to get into immediately after opening. But then, usually just a few months later, the fickle hip crowd moves on to another new find and the place suddenly has too many empty tables.
However there are a few timeless classics, restaurants so eternally popular that it is always tricky to get a reservation, even though they have been opens for years or decades.
But then there is Rao’s, in a class all its own. It is simply the single toughest restaurant reservation to get in the United States, bar none.