Teeny Toki, where you can now reserve a spot in advance. Photograph by Kyle Gustafson.

Twenty-seven seat ramen (and dumpling) phenomenon Toki Underground is a famously tricky place to score a spot. As of today, however, it just got a little easier—provided you like to eat early.

The new reservations site CityEats has brokered a deal with Toki to turn over one reservation for two people at each of the following times: 5, 5:15, and 5:30, Monday through Thursday. Two additional four-top tables will be reservable via the site at 5:45 and 6 on the same days.

Now we can only hope that Little Serow will follow suit. We hear that last week, the wait at Johnny Monis’s tiny Thai place was up to two hours long. 

The stuff major life decisions are based upon. Photograph courtesy of Chick-Fil-A.

Ann Limpert, food and wine editor

• New York Post critic Steve Cuozzo pays an opening-night visit to Joanne, the restaurant owned by Lady Gaga’s parents and featuring the cooking of Michelle Obama fave and Art and Soul chef-owner Art Smith. He finds a room that’s “loud as an avalanche,” “calamari like leather,” and “flaccid pasta commonly doled out along Long Island’s Jericho Turnpike.” Not even a Tony Bennett sighting could save the evening. You’ll Gag on the Food at Gaga’s 

• This isn’t so insane to me. Cassanova McKinzy Cites Chick-Fil-A in Choosing Auburn Over Clemson 

Jessica Voelker, online dining editor

• How do you know when the fancy ice trend has gone too far? When someone steals a hunk from a melting glacier in order to sell it to swanky cocktail bars. Man arrested for stealing glaciers 

• “Can’t you see it’s made of chemicals and fat and dead, lost dreams?” Oh my God please do not eat this

Happy Friday, readers! As always, there's a food truck party at Farragut Square today, with ten trucks stationed with hot food to warm you up. A bunch of vendors will be roaming around Metro Center, too. Have a great weekend.

JP Caceres poses at Dirty Martini. The Dupont bar is a current client of his cocktail consultancy business. Photograph by Erik Uecke.

“I went to law school, I worked at a desk. It was not for me,” says JP Caceres, a Derek Brown acolyte who owns the Washington-based cocktail consulting business Let’s Imbibe Beverage Consulting.

The Bolivian bartender’s chosen career began when he took a busboy job at Jaleo in the early 2000s. There, he worked his way up while learning English, and when owner José Andrés opened Zaytinya, Caceres moved over to the Penn Quarter restaurant as a barback and service bartender.

It was there that he had his worst shift ever.

“I had worked at Zaytinya for about three months when a club opened up around the corner called VIP. All the pretty boys and all the pretty girls would come very nicely dressed for the club, but they wanted to have dinner or drinks first. And on this particular Saturday, we had a little bit of people coming in. It wasn’t too much. Everybody working was just looking at each other like, ‘What else do we do? What else do we clean?’ And the managers, they said to us, ‘We’re going to get busy.’ And we were like, ‘No we’re not. It’s six o’clock.’ So the manager decided to send a couple of bartenders home. Around like 9:30, 10, people start coming in. We’d never seen the restaurant like that! And by 11 o’clock—I don’t have to tell you—it was four deep at the bar. Crazy. 

How serious are you about your key lime pie? Photograph courtesy of Red Truck Bakery via Facebook.

Key lime pie is kind of a summer thing, but Red Truck Bakery in Warrenton—home of, let’s not play around here, some very fine pies—is making an exception for the Super Bowl. The Key lime confection is usually only available from Memorial Day through Labor Day, but if you order today, you can pick one up on Friday or Saturday . . . just in time for this weekend’s game.

Now, we admit that for those of us living near Washington, DC, Warrenton is a bit of a hike. So what this comes down to is: One, how seriously do you take your Key lime pie? And two, how seriously do you take you Super Bowl party food?

The pies cost $24; order by 5 PM today.

Happy Thursday, food truck followers! It may be dismal out there, but your favorite trucks are ready to serve you  delicious eats. Don't forget to place Super Bowl orders today with the likes of Cap Mac, Red Hook Lobster Truck, and more! 

If you want cupcakes decked out with football flare, order them by 8 PM on Saturday. Photograph courtesy of Georgetown Cupcake via Twitter.

1) A.M. Wine Shoppe has meat and cheese boards—artisanal cheese, salami, bite-size sandwiches—that you can order for the Super Bowl. A cheese-only platter that serves ten is $55, and a combo with meats is $75. A plate of bite-size Admorghese sandwiches (finochino, mortadella, prosciutto, cotto, provolone, spicy pickles, and olive oil on semolina sesame bread), meanwhile, is $50. Place your order by 5 PM on Saturday.

2) Key lime pie from Red Truck!

3) In addition to cleaning and steaming your lobsters, Cannon’s Fish Market in Georgetown will sell you cocktail shrimp for $25.99 per pound, along with oysters—Blue Points and Chincoteagues are among the varieties currently on ice.