A simple look at the restaurants in every city will help you realize that most of them are full of diners not only on the weekend but also throughout the week. For that matter, people love eating not just in restaurants but also in markets, food stalls, food trucks, and so on. So, if you happen to be a food aficionado or a food junkie and you love exploring new restaurants, the following list of 25 Most Exclusive Restaurants Around The World will probably excite you. At the same time, they just might discourage you. Yep, sadly, you won’t likely be able to enjoy a meal in any of the restaurants that follow. In reality, booking a table at Next in Chicago isn’t all that hard. What makes things exclusive is the ever-evolving menu, which creates specific dishes extremely hard to find again if you visit a season or two later. The pathway, often called the most dangerous hike in the world, includes little more than wooden planks and chains at some points in the journey. Despite some hikers falling to their death, people keep making the trip to the temple. If you make it there safely, it will most likely be the most satisfying cup of tea you ever drink. The restaurant will then either send you a booking confirmation (if there’s availability) or offer an alternative choice. The chefs there claim to create art with their dishes, which is the reason they are open so few days during the year. Further, there’s an extra obstacle to making a reservation there. Most of the tables are held back for guests staying in one of the six guest rooms, so you’ll have to add about $417 for a night’s stay on top of the $190 menu. The only sure thing is that dining at Brae is far from cheap. In case you’re planning to eat there anytime soon, we’re afraid that you will have to wait until 2020. Reservations for Noma generally close early, once the restaurant is fully booked until the end of the year. See, the tables are only available to book 180 days in advance. Those who don’t get in can sign up for the waiting list. The classic menu is around $177 and includes totally unique inventions like crispy egg yolk and liquid salad. The menu includes delicacies such as goose liver with goat cheese and sweet maize, or seared trout with tarragon sauce, beets, and pea purée. Just make sure you book a table in Schloss Schauenstein six to nine months before you hope to dine there. The dinner typically lasts up to three hours and the modern kaiseki (traditional multi-course Japanese dinner) will set you back $275. For about $445, one can taste three specialties only served in this restaurant, plus a selection of cheeses and desserts. This unique and very Chinese experience costs about $600. The dishes rotate frequently to ensure that none of the guests leave the restaurant hungry or unsatisfied. Once there, a hungry client will have to follow the strict rules of the restaurant’s chef on how to eat the sushi. The 20-piece meal costs 40,000 Yen, which is about $370. (Not sure I love sushi that much.) Accessed through a glass door emblazoned with the letter é, the room is dominated by a steel-topped bar with seating for nine. The only way to dine in this nine-seat restaurant, though, is to enter with a golden ticket. These golden tickets are sold up to three months in advance. Needless to say that VIPs and celebrities usually get these tickets so a “commoner” might need to wait for a year or two to buy one. Her delicious and inventive nine-course Menu will cost you $375 but it will provide an unforgettable experience. The only problem is that you may have to wait nearly a year to make a reservation. If you call to book, no one answers and there’s no availability online. If you’re brave enough to show up at the restaurant uninvited, two bouncers ensure that only those with a reservation are allowed in. Eating there, however, is a little tricky. Other than its menu costing about $350, reservations can be done only through their website. Reservations are released at 10:00 AM (Italian time) on the first day of each month, three months in advance. In case of a Saturday or Sunday, the reservations open on the first Monday of the month. Its unique location is the key to why Inis Meáin is constantly booked. The restaurant is designed and built in such a way that every detail is inspired by the island and its remote way of life. As for the food? The few lucky visitors who have been there described it as one of the best meals they ever had. Further, his famous “oysters and pearls” are followed by a succession of eight impeccable dishes in which no ingredient is repeated. Other than being fast, you need to be quite wealthy to eat there; the cheapest menu costs “only” $370, excluding the drinks. The World’s #1 restaurant for 2012 will no longer serve a very few lucky clients because the owner wants to do other things than owning one of the most exclusive restaurants in the world. If you’re patient and lucky enough, you can get in touch with them on the first day of each month, at midnight … the only date this restaurant receives calls for reservations. Keep in mind that if you’re lucky enough to book the table (you’ll encounter a super long waiting line) you will need to pay $300 per person, plus a $200 reservation fee for a seven-course menu. As you probably understand by now, this restaurant is not for everyone’s pocket. The restaurant can’t welcome more than 14 people per night. These lucky few have the opportunity to take in a 180-degree view of coral reefs and sharks while eating spicy sea snails and veal tenderloin from the exclusive menu. Further, the restaurant is literally closed for most of the week and any phone calls often go unanswered. If you’re lucky enough to eat there, however, rumors have it that some of the best seafood on the planet is served there. Damon claims to acquire all the ingredients used in the restaurant, such as pine flour, acorn oil, and vinegar, directly from his 12-acre property. The seafood and meats are sourced from a neighboring organic livestock farm. What’s more impressive about this 16-seat restaurant is that it has a ridiculously long waiting list. Some reports state the waitlist is from 5 to 10 years. Regardless, people from more than 50 different countries have traveled to Earlton, New York, over the past few years to taste Damon’s food. This magnificent eatery on the French Riviera has been praised for a number of its dishes, including salt-crusted beetroot from its own garden, with caviar cream. The only bad thing about Mirazur is that very few selected clients can enjoy these dishes as the restaurant is not very welcoming to “everyday” people.
