Industry expert
We went to dinner with my wife today one of our favorite sushi places in our town. However, the place is very hard to find a table. You need to call a couple of weeks in advance to reserve a table. Opentable, Yelp or other online reservation system doesn’t work out for them. Or another option is to show up their front door the time they opened. We did the second option, and it didn’t work out. They said people lined up almost an hour before to eat there. That’s insane to me.
Anyway, my wife asked the guy where is the other place you eat sushi when you do outside of your shop? And he whispered a place only a block away. We went there and voila. The restaurant was empty, and we got a great table. I was in the beginning the skeptical because I never heard their name and we were the only people were dining. Later we had our sushis. Oh my god, their nigiris ( we only eat original sushi it’s called nigiri google it if you don’t know) were amazing. Almost as good as we had in Tokyo. If she didn’t ask the guy who is technically industry expert, we never knew the place. So, people trust the people who are in the industry. Especially the ones who do their work good.