You have to know it’s there

One way of asserting status among people who love dining out is to reveal a secret spot – somewhere nobody else knows about where you can almost always get a seat and a really good meal. The appeal is obvious, both in being first among your friends to find a cool place, and it being sufficiently little-known that you can probably get a table even on a Friday or Saturday when everywhere else is slammed.The people who run that secret spot are probably less enchanted with the whole idea, beca