Six restaurants it's maddeningly difficult to dine in - from an eatery in New York that's booked out until 2030 to a sushi restaurant where PERFUME is banned (along with sandals)

In nan clip it takes to get a array astatine immoderate of these restaurants, you could springiness up your career, train arsenic a cook - and unfastened a edifice pinch a immense waiting list.

Getting an assemblage pinch nan Pope would beryllium easier than securing a spot astatine these spots - immoderate of nan astir maddeningly tricky to dine astatine successful nan world.

There's a pub successful Bristol that's booked until 2025, a edifice successful New York that's booked until 2030 - and another, successful Japan, that moreover if you do get into, mightiness good propulsion you retired if you're wearing perfume.

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The Bank Tavern, Bristol, UK

The Bank Tavern successful Bristol looks unassuming - but it's 1 of nan hottest pub-meal tickets successful nan country, pinch bookings for its highly rated Sunday luncheon afloat until 2025.

There are only 7 tables, pinch nan pub's website claiming that its 2024 slots for them 'sold retired quicker than Glastonbury tickets'.

Historically, nan pub's existent backlog is really rather mini - it erstwhile had a waiting database of 4 years.

A roast meal featuring 30-day aged uncommon beef costs £18.95. Visit www.banktavern.com.

Damon Baehrel, Earlton, New York

Damon Baehrel, a edifice successful a hamlet of nan Hudson Valley Region, New York, has taken an extended break from accepting caller requests for its regular yearly schedule for complete 10 years (since March 2014) owed to a very ample backlog from complete 100 countries, a spokesperson told MailOnline Travel.

In fact, nan regular yearly schedule is reserved each nan measurement done to 2030. 

The edifice has nary business phone, each correspondence is by email only, and it does not participate successful immoderate shape of societal media. No phones, cameras, photos aliases different signaling instrumentality are permitted successful nan restaurant.

Damon (the chef, grower, proprietor and sole 'employee') creates elaborate 20-plus-course meals lasting 5 aliases much hours, utilizing 'unique' ingredients from his 12-acre farm.

The existent value of eating astatine nan edifice is $495/£391 per person.

Visit www.damonbaehrel.com.

Sukiyabashi Jiro, Tokyo, Japan

Sushi eatery Sukiyabashi Jiro successful Tokyo ticks each nan boxes for a difficult-to-get-into restaurant.

Limited seating? Tick. There are conscionable 10 antagonistic stools. 

Michelin stars? Tick. It has 2 (and utilized to person three).

Famous clientele? Tick. Past guests see Drew Barrymore and Barack Obama.

Documentary star? That too. It gained world fame aft nan merchandise of Jiro Dreams of Sushi successful 2011, which focused connected nan sushi maestro and proprietor of Sukiyabashi - Jiro Ono, now aged 98.

If you do negociate to eat location you'll bask a 20-plate omakase (i.e decided by nan chef) tasting paper of caller seafood. 

However, immoderate rules could spot you miss retired connected a hard-won reservation.

Guests are not allowed to return photos wrong arsenic they should 'concentrate connected dining'. You besides shouldn't beryllium late, should refrain from wearing beardown perfume and nan cook whitethorn 'refuse work to customers wearing collarless shirts aliases shorts, aliases sandals'. 

Reservations are presently accepted by telephone only and if you unrecorded extracurricular of Japan these must beryllium made by your edifice concierge. The costs of nan omakase tasting paper is 55,000 yen (£270/$342) positive tax. 

Visit www.sushi-jiro.jp.

Chae, Melbourne, Australia

This celebrated 72-seat edifice successful Australia has fixed up connected waiting lists each together - alternatively wannabe diners put their sanction successful a lottery. 

Yoora Yoon, head astatine Melbourne's Chae, told MailOnline Travel: 'We nary longer supply a waiting list. In January 2024, we implemented a lottery strategy for our bookings. 

'Our booking almanac opens each period for 3 weeks. The number of entries we person fluctuates, pinch nan highest number being 5,544 entries successful March 2024. On average, we person betwixt 3,000 to 4,000 entries each period for our constricted number of seats.'

The caller strategy came into spot because a first-come-first-serve booking strategy lead to each of nan seats being snapped up wrong seconds - personification moreover group up a bot to snatch nan chance distant from others. 

Lunch aliases meal astatine Chae, featuring cook Jung Eun Chae and her authentic Korean flavours, costs $130 (£68.49/$86.80) per person.

Visit: www.chae.com.au. 

Firedoor, Sydney

Firedoor, known for its fire-cooked seasonal nutrient and rustic decor, opens its reservations each 3 months - pinch October bookings opening connected June 3. And you request to beryllium speedy to threat 1 up. 

The 44-seat edifice offers 2 sittings per nighttime and posts last-minute slots connected societal media, but a spokesperson told MailOnline: 'These are swiftly picked up.'

Expect to dine connected delicious meals cooked only connected wood occurrence - from breadstuff to fish, lamb and lentils. Firedoor says connected its website: 'Our room uses nary state aliases electricity. We person 2 wood-fired ovens, 3 grills and a wood-burning hearth.

'We termination shellfish to bid and activity pinch unrecorded food from our food tanks.'

A five-course tasting paper costs from $195 AUD(£102/$129.54). 

Visit: firedoor.com.au. 

Noma, Copenhagen, Denmark

Noma successful Copenhagen - it's been named nan champion edifice successful nan world aggregate times and has 3 Michelin stars.

But unless you've managed to snare a array for 2024, you'll ne'er eat there.

That's because it's booked till 2025, erstwhile it will unopen down and reopen arsenic 'a elephantine laboratory - a pioneering trial kitchen'.

Sorry!

Visit: noma.dk.