It's Friday night in Williamsburg

And you forgot to make a reservation... oops!

I thought I should address this early on in the newsletter—the quintessential malady faced by New York food scene people in 2024. You want to go out to dinner on a Friday night, naturally, and you absolutely did not make the reservation you told your friend you had taken care of two weeks ago.

The post-covid, post-virality restaurant world in New York …