When my wife and I discuss our favorite neighborhood places, Rose's doesn't usually come to mind first. It's too widely popular--and was so almost from the beginning--to feel like we have some special claim to it.
That said, I've found Rose's no-reservations policy has allowed me, as a neighbor, to eat there more often. Picking a date two months in advance would require too much foresight and effort, and make it feel like even less of a neighborhood place. Instead, we can go at 6:00 to put our name in after the line has cleared, then go home to wait for the text while, say, doing the laundry. On a random Monday or Tuesday we can expect to get a text by 7:45. I don't know if it would occur to me to do that at one of the places described above, even if it were possible.