I wound up with reservations at Noma for August 25, but if I decide to spend a few more days I can eat there twice. Not bad. I can tell you reservations are MUCH easier to get than at Next. All I had to do was to get up at 3:00 a.m. (Chicago time) and by 3:45 I had a table for two. If I hadn't gotten the table I would probably have been up all night.
Toast, as every breakfaster knows, isn't really about the quality of the bread or how it's sliced or even the toaster. For man cannot live by toast alone. It's all about the butter. -- Adam Gopnik