Embrace the Hot Restaurant Dupe

Many years ago a crowd-averse friend taught me a valuable lesson: Why wait hours to get into a hot restaurant when you could walk right into a less popular restaurant of roughly equal value? This is how I came to love Pizza Moto.Pizza Moto, now a mobile pizza caterer, turns out incredible Neapolitan pies and was my replacement for Roberta’s. And ever since, I’ve believed that almost every high-end, impossible-to-get-into, give-up-your-first-born-for-a-reservation restaurant has a dupe. (For those unfamiliar with dupe-ology, it’s the study of equally high-quality substitutes for…