Browse the hardest-to-book restaurants in New York City and San Francisco by cuisine. Each list shows live reservation availability, checked every few minutes across Resy, OpenTable, Tock and SevenRooms.
Every cuisine page ranks its restaurants by how often a table is actually open, measured from those checks rather than estimated. A room at 0 percent, like Carbone or Semma, effectively never shows a bookable slot, so the reliable way in is catching a cancellation the moment it appears. A restaurant at 50 or 60 percent has space most weeks if you stay flexible on the night and the time.
Use these lists to find both the hard tables worth setting an alert on and the excellent restaurants you can still book this week. In New York the toughest cuisines are Italian and Indian; in San Francisco the hardest tables cluster among American tasting menus and Chinese. Star the ones you want and SnagRes emails or texts you the instant a table opens.
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SnagRes tracks the hardest-to-book restaurants across every major cuisine in New York City and San Francisco, from Italian, Japanese and French to Korean, Indian, Chinese, steakhouse and omakase. Each cuisine page lists the restaurants in it with live availability.
Italian and Indian are among the toughest in New York: several rooms in each, including Carbone, Torrisi, Semma and Dhamaka, show a bookable table on 0 percent of the dates we check. The cuisine pages rank each restaurant by how often a table is actually open.
Yes. Every cuisine page covers both cities where restaurants exist in that category, and availability is checked every few minutes across Resy, OpenTable, Tock and SevenRooms.