SnagRes emails you the moment a table opens at 68 of the hardest restaurants in Chicago. Every restaurant is rechecked throughout the day on Resy, OpenTable, Tock, SevenRooms, and the alert reaches you whether the table came from a scheduled release or from a cancellation at an unpredictable hour.
Star the restaurants you want. When a date or time appears at any of them, SnagRes sends you an email saying what opened, with a link to the restaurant's own booking page. You complete the reservation yourself under your own account. SnagRes never signs into your account, never holds a table and never books on your behalf, which is the line between an alert service and the tools that get accounts banned.
All 68 tracked in Chicago: 50 on Resy, 11 on OpenTable, 4 on Tock, 3 on SevenRooms. 15 of them have a release time confirmed against the restaurant's own booking listing, so an alert there is backed by a known schedule rather than by guesswork.
These had the least of their booking window open at the last check. At this end of the list refreshing by hand does not work, because what comes back are cancellations arriving at no fixed hour.
| Restaurant | Neighborhood | Platform | Window open at last check |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bavette's Bar & Boeuf - Chicago | River North | Resy | 0% |
| Cariño | Uptown | OpenTable | 0% |
| Kyoten | Logan Square | OpenTable | 0% |
| Feld | West Town | Tock | 0% |
| Smyth | West Loop | Tock | 3% |
| Armitage Alehouse | Bucktown | Resy | 7% |
| Ciccio Mio | River North | Resy | 7% |
| Kasama | Ukrainian Village | OpenTable | 7% |
A free account watches two restaurants and tells you which dates opened. Plus removes the limit, shows the exact times rather than the dates alone, and widens the visible window from 14 days to 30. It bills monthly and cancels from the account page at any time.
Availability is rechecked throughout the day, with cadence varying by city, platform and demand. Figures show the latest completed check. How we measure this.
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SnagRes tracks 68 of the hardest tables in Chicago. Across them, an average of 66% of the bookable window is open at any given check. Even the hardest give tables back: Armitage Alehouse had a table open up on 59% of its dates at some point. Availability is rechecked throughout the day.
Of the 15 Chicago restaurants with a confirmed drop time, 8 release at 9:00 AM, and the typical booking window is 21 days ahead. Drop times are set per restaurant, not per platform, so two places on the same platform can open hours apart.
Of the 68 tracked in Chicago, 50 book on Resy, 11 on OpenTable, 4 on Tock, 3 on SevenRooms. SnagRes covers each platform represented in this city list.
No. SnagRes tells you the moment a table opens and links you straight to the restaurant's own booking page, where you complete the reservation yourself. It does not hold, auto-book or resell tables.