The hardest to reserve restaurant in the world is not in Brooklyn, Barcelona and not even in Copenhagen. It’s in Tokyo and you’ve probably never heard of it before. I’ve been trying to get into Kawamura steakhouse without any success each time I went to Tokyo. And I am not talking about conventional ways of booking a restaurant in a foreign city, as when asked, Tokyo hotels concierges would usually not even bother to call Kawamura.
As Michael said last time I had dinner at his restaurant in London, “you have more chances to book El Bulli for next week than to get into Kawamura.” Doesn’t sound very promising, but I still haven’t lost my hope…