Meet the travelers

The founding table. Real places and honest experiences from the team behind Tables & Tickets — first shared on Instagram, now at home here.

I plan trips around reservations, not the other way round. Fifteen years of eating my way through cities and writing down exactly what it cost.

My wife and I have celebrated every anniversary in a different city for twelve years. I review the places that made the night feel like an occasion.

Five-star taste, three-star budget. I find the lunch menu at the dinner-famous place and the shoulder-season week when the crowds go home.

Two kids, one minivan, zero patience for places that say they welcome families but mean it only on the website. I check.

Milanese, living in Lisbon, usually somewhere in between. I stay long enough in a place to find the restaurant the taxi drivers eat at.

Born and raised in Atlanta. If it opened here in the last twenty years, I've been — and I'll tell you whether it's worth the wait on a Friday.