Keith McNally —proprietor of media commissary Balthazar —also owns New York ’s restaurant of the moment, Minetta Tavern . It’s an elusive reservation, because the place is packed with celebrities. But what happens when Gawker Alumnus Jesse Oxfeld tries to get in? Well! Oxfeld’s attempt to break through the threshold from the mere peasantry of a walk-in right to a prime time table was chronicled by Eater: I feel Oxfeld’s pain, as someone who has both been through the intense process of trying to get a goddamn steak and as someone who used to take reservations for Keith McNally’s restaurants.