Browse hard-to-book restaurants in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago by cuisine. Each list shows current availability and the platform used by every restaurant.
Every cuisine page ranks its restaurants by how often a table is actually open, measured from those checks rather than estimated. A room that reads near 0 percent, like Carbone or Semma, books out as soon as dates release, so the reliable way in is the release minute or a cancellation caught 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.
Also browse by neighborhood, or the New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago trackers.
SnagRes tracks restaurants across major cuisines in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago, from Italian, Japanese and French to Korean, Indian, Chinese, Mexican and Mediterranean. Each cuisine page lists the restaurants in it with current availability.
Italian and Indian are among the toughest in New York: Carbone, Torrisi, Semma and Dhamaka fill their calendars fast, and most of what opens there comes back as cancellations or at the release minute. The cuisine pages rank each restaurant by how often a table is actually open.
New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago appear wherever the tracked list contains that cuisine. Every restaurant row identifies its city and booking platform.