A traveler said she received an unexpected request from a hotel after booking a room through Expedia. After finding a special deal on the travel site and receiving confirmation of the purchase, the woman received a message from the hotel, she wrote on the sub-thread r/travel. The woman said hotel officials requested that she cancel … Read more
Forget scoring an 8 p.m. dinner reservation at Carbone or the Corner Store. Getting a table at popular NYC sports bars to watch the big game on Sunday is now just as difficult a play. If you want a prime position to watch football, you have to reserve weeks and even months in advance, “know … Read more
It was dinner and a no-show. British celebrity chef Simon Wood had no reservations about spit-roasting a group of diners online for allegedly neglecting to show up for their reserved table at his fine-dining restaurant, WOOD, over the weekend. He grilled them in an X post catching fire online. Wood, who won the hit cooking … Read more
They gave him room and card-board. Apparently, you don’t have to be an Olympian to be cursed with an anti-sex bed: A Scottish soccer fan who had reserved a hotel on Booking.com was horrified after discovering that the mattresses were made of cardboard, as detailed in a thread on X. “Wait till you see the … Read more
Son of a beach. One of the nation’s most scenic swimming holes is pushing back against mass tourism by requiring visitors to make reservations at peak times this summer. Sand Harbor State Park on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe is rolling out the concept as a way to “reduce traffic congestion” on local roads … Read more
Never mind the buzzy new Italian restaurant, the hottest reservation in town is being told the colors you’ve been wearing for years are all wrong. Seklab — a “personal color analysis salon” — has a waitlist of more than 2,000 people, according to the Midtown hotspot’s co-owners. Yes, the 1980s trend where women attended Tupperware-like parties to … Read more
They’ve got no reservations about doing whatever it takes to land reservations. Dining out in New York City, especially at a high-profile eatery, has become a cutthroat endeavor as the demand for tables aggressively outweighs the supply. Now an elite network of resellers stands to make tens of thousands of dollars a year, while reselling … Read more
A Michelin-starred celebrity chef and a high-powered restaurateur have opened a jewel of an Indian restaurant that has transformed a shabby section of the East Village into a sophisticated slice of Mumbai. Bungalow, which opened last month at a new luxury building on the site of the original Lucky Cheng’s, is tucked between a pizzeria … Read more
“Frybread Face and Me” is set in 1990, when its protagonist, Benny (Keir Tallman), reluctantly goes to live on a Navajo reservation with his maternal grandmother (Sarah H. Natani). Having grown up in San Diego, the 11-year-old Benny has more experience with action figures, SeaWorld visits and Fleetwood Mac tunes than with rug weaving, sheep … Read more
Your server will be right with you — in four years. An unassuming pub in England has been named the toughest restaurant in the world to get a table — even beating the highly influential New York scene. Located in Bristol, in the hills two and a half hours from London, The Bank Tavern currently … Read more
Call it a fries wide shut party. Earlier this month, an artist and model hosted an entirely naked and pricey, plant-based dinner on the Lower East Side where guests can’t even wear as much as a cooking apron. Throughout the recent evening in NYC — one with a menstruation theme — some guests even discussed … Read more
Taylor Swift seats aren’t the only tickets being resold at a premium by less-than-scrupulous hustlers. Reservations at Yoshino, a 10-seat Michelin-starred sushi bar on the Bowery, are being scalped for nearly $700 apiece, per a representative for the restaurant. To enjoy sushi master Tadashi Yoshida’s renowned omakase, diners must book on the Tock platform and … Read more
At 4:45 p.m. Thursday, Carlos Sevilla and his date, Kriti Shrestha, finally secured a table for two at Masalawala & Sons. It was no easy feat. They’d been trying to snag one since September, when the Indian restaurant — with its Bengali dinner party atmosphere — first opened in a former Park Slope bakery and … Read more