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Shout out to Fort Charles Prime.

Besides Rayo's original location, which is in Harlem, which is the most impossible reservation, frankly, you can't count that because it is not a reservation. Someone has to own a table. So it doesn't count. It's the hardest seat at a restaurant. The hardest public dining establishment to dine at in the country is as Rayos, because you can't dine at unless

you own a table. So let's put that to decide. Second, I would say probably in the world.

It used to be French laundry. I would say in the world maybe, but certainly New York,

for Charles Prime is the hardest seat to get.

It is nine tables. Last night, we sat at the largest, nicest table because all the tables

seem to be two tops or four tops. If you've ever seen or heard of the Waverly Inn in New York was

like a famous iconic place where there's Mineta Tavern. There are these club-like leather booth,

cozy, dark, moody places in New York, a little speakeasy-ish, a little gangs of New Yorkish.

And the pa, I'm not the palm. Dan Tanas in L.A. used to be like a bigger, more commercial version of that. But these are like these cozy little places that like the cozy cauldron, let's call it. Okay.

And so for Charles Prime, I've been wanting to go to because it's a thing. You've seen it on social media, they poke the egg and the egg goes on the burger and it seems like there's pomp in circumstance and it's a whole thing. And so in my mind, I'm thinking there has to be a level of pretension. Like when you go to Polo Club, which is the second hardest reservation,

it's as hard, but there are more seats. So by definition, it's an easier reservation because

there's more real estate. So Polo is more like, it's slightly fancy. They have a burger

and they have a Rubin, but it's slightly fancy and it's got a level of upper-e side, even though it's midtown, like, pretension, but I like, I like it. Meaning it's like it's special and everyone's nice, but like you feel like you've arrived at something that is sort of elite, not snobby, not snobby. But it's not, it's, it's, what's the word, aspirational? It's not really that accessible, attainable. Once you sit down, it is, but it's aspirational. But like you sit down and you're like, wow, this is something. We're at something. Okay, so that's what polo is, which I love, and I love the girls there and the people there, and it's amazing. Okay, so that's Polo and the, and it's a different, similar types of, like, published type of food for Charles Prime is an interesting thing because it's the most coveted reservation to show up and outside, there's like a stoop and people are actually sitting on it because it was a spring day but there's something very new york about it very gangs of new york very the new york that i grew up in like a stoop is iconic okay so people are sitting on a stoop and there's like these wrought iron windows and like charming like townhouses you could be in like l like Notting Hill or something okay you could be in

London and then there's and there's a little table right outside I don't know if you can eat at it but

that's so cute right outside like it looks almost like it's like a set just a table a two top right

outside the window of this little dark cozy cavernousvernous townhouse. And, like, people were there

each time that I, when I walked in and walked out, just two people sitting there. I don't know if they were having drinks. That's part of the bar. You can't really eat on the street. I don't know. Then you see this guy, and I hear his accent. I hear his British accent. I don't know if it was Cockney or if it was just straight up British because he didn't speak enough.

But you hear this British accent and he's wearing a tweed cap, which is, again, very like, um, peeky blinders. Peekey blinders, gangs of New York, very like Irish. And so he's outside and he's like cast. I don't know if he wears that head every day, but like he's been cast for this role. You know, so he's like this handsome man outside, very charming, engaging. And again, there's a little bit of like, are you on the list? Do you not? Because by definition, there's a nine table place that's the hottest place in the United States of America, if not the globe, to get a reservation, barring like some Michelin crazy, like, wild thing, El Bully in Spain,

which is like a hard reservation. But I actually think this is probably harder or as hard.

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