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No Reservations (App)

Here’s how to get a table without the fuss.

Aug 11, 2026
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Our OTH group chat was BUSY on Sunday after The Wall Street Journal declared that Reservation Apps Have Made Getting Into a Restaurant a Nightmare. This isn’t the first time our team has talked about how difficult/annoying/confounding eating out in New York has become.

A few weeks ago, one of our readers emailed us in response to this Real Simple piece w…

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