Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 61,530,416 checks across 284 restaurants through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
On our 19 October 2026 reading, from the hard end: Bungalow (0%), Semma (0%), The Ambassadors Clubhouse (0%), ADDA (7%), Dhamaka (23%) and Musaafer (33%). The Ambassadors Clubhouse has shown 10 open tables in 613,215 checks of its Resy calendar, Bungalow 2,138 and Semma 1,137. The New York Indian rooms average 11% availability.
Dhamaka in Essex Market opens 7 days ahead at 9 AM on SevenRooms, which the restaurant states on its own booking page and which is the shortest window of any room on this page. It reads 23% for a two-top and 23% for a four-top, and its openings run between 20% and 22% of checks on every night. The release alarm is a genuine strategy here rather than a formality.
Semma opens 15 days ahead at 9 AM on SevenRooms. It showed a bookable two-top on 0% of dates and a four-top on 0%. Across 350,114 checks we have logged 1,137 openings, loosest on a Tuesday, with 0 on a Sunday. Most Semma tables that reach ordinary diners are cancellations, which is what an alert is for.
Musaafer (33%) is the most open of the New York Indian rooms we track. Musaafer reads 33% for two and 43% for four. ADDA sits at 7% and is best aimed at a Wednesday.
Semma opens 15 days ahead at 9 AM, ADDA 15 days ahead at 9 AM and Dhamaka 7 days ahead at 9 AM, all on SevenRooms. Bungalow opens 20 days ahead at 11 AM through Resy. The Ambassadors Clubhouse opens approximately two weeks before the first of the month at midnight. Musaafer opens 14 days ahead at 9 AM on OpenTable.
Each room has its own. Musaafer produced 14,491 of its 71,716 openings on a Tuesday against 510 on a Saturday. ADDA is loosest on a Wednesday, Semma on a Tuesday and Bungalow on a Tuesday. Dhamaka is spread across the week, from 20% to 22% of checks.
Often late. The most frequently open slot is 9:30 PM at ADDA, 9:30 PM at Dhamaka, 10:00 PM at Bungalow, 5:00 PM at Semma and 12:15 PM at Musaafer. Prime time between 7:00 and 8:30 PM accounts for 24% of open slots at Dhamaka, 19% at Bungalow, 10% at ADDA, 7% at Semma and 1% at Musaafer.
No. SnagRes watches these restaurants across Resy, OpenTable, Tock and SevenRooms and texts or emails you the moment a table opens. You book it yourself, in your own name, on the restaurant's own platform. We never book, hold or resell a reservation, which is the line between an alert service and a reservation broker.
We have run 2,471,574 availability checks against the six New York Indian rooms on this page, part of 61,530,416 checks across the 284 restaurants we follow in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago. The headline percentage is the share of dates in the current booking window with a bookable table, and the opening counts are cumulative across the life of our tracking. A 0% reading means a table almost never stays open long enough for an ordinary person to find and take it.
On our 19 October 2026 reading, three of the New York Indian rooms we track had every two-top taken across their current window. From the hard end: Bungalow (0%), Semma (0%) and The Ambassadors Clubhouse (0%). A 0% does not mean the same thing at all three, which is the point of this page. The Ambassadors Clubhouse in NoMad has shown us 10 open tables across 613,215 checks of its Resy calendar. Bungalow has shown 2,138 and Semma 1,137, which makes them hard in a different way.
We follow six modern Indian rooms in New York and have run 2,471,574 availability checks against their calendars, part of 61,530,416 checks across the 284 restaurants we track in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago. Watching a short list closely is what lets us tell you that one 0% is close to an absolute and another is a room that opens now and then, on particular nights.
The number next to each name below is the share of dates in the current booking window that had a bookable two-top, so lower is harder. Listed with the total openings we have logged over the life of our tracking, because a percentage on its own hides the difference between rare and never.
The Ambassadors Clubhouse, NoMad, Resy: 0% for a two-top and 0% for a four-top, with 10 open tables recorded in 613,215 checks.
Bungalow, East Village, Resy: 0% for a two-top and 0% for a four-top, with 2,138 openings logged across 625,043 checks.
Semma, West Village, SevenRooms: 0% for a two-top and 0% for a four-top, with 1,137 openings across 350,114 checks.
ADDA, East Village, SevenRooms: 7% for a two-top and 17% for a four-top, with 29,481 openings across 305,947 checks.
Dhamaka, Essex Market, SevenRooms: 23% for a two-top and 23% for a four-top, with 68,063 openings across 323,532 checks.
Musaafer, Tribeca, OpenTable: 33% for a two-top and 43% for a four-top, with 71,716 openings across 253,723 checks.
A 0% reading answers one question, whether a table was open on any date in the current window, and it flattens very different restaurants into one word. Read against the full history instead, and they come apart.
The Ambassadors Clubhouse is the closest thing to a wall. We have checked it 613,215 times and logged 10 openings in all. We have observed only 6 release events there across 4 days, which is the other half of the story: the inventory barely becomes visible to a checker at all before it is gone.
Bungalow is rare rather than sealed. It has produced 2,138 openings for us, and those openings are not evenly spread: 593 landed on a Tuesday and 174 on a Friday. Semma has 1,137 openings, and a four-top there was open on 0% of dates against 0% for a two-top, so check both party sizes before you give up.
None of this is visible from a directory. A service advertising 62,198 restaurants reports one number per room, if it reports one at all. We watch 284 and would rather spend three paragraphs explaining why two zeros are not the same zero than publish a ranking that treats them as identical.
The Ambassadors Clubhouse: 10 openings in 613,215 checks, and 6 release events observed on 4 days.
Bungalow: 2,138 openings in 625,043 checks.
Semma: 1,137 openings in 350,114 checks, and 0% availability for a four-top against 0% for a two-top.
Most open of the group: Musaafer (33%).
The night matters more than most people expect, and the gap inside one restaurant is often larger than the gap between restaurants. Anyone who searches these rooms for a Friday or Saturday, finds nothing and concludes that modern Indian in New York is impossible may have measured the two hardest nights of the week and called it the cuisine.
Musaafer is a clear case. Of its 71,716 logged openings, 14,491 fell on a Tuesday and 510 on a Saturday, 28 to one on the same calendar. Its easiest day reads 40% availability and its hardest 1%. ADDA peaks on a Wednesday at 16% of checks, against 4% on a Saturday.
Semma is loosest on a Tuesday, with 393 of its 1,137 openings, and its Sunday record is 0 openings in 50,453 checks. Bungalow peaks on a Tuesday, and its Monday record is 0 openings in 89,173 checks.
Dhamaka is the one to know about, because it behaves nothing like the others. Its 68,063 openings run from 20% of checks on its hardest night to 22% on its easiest. At a room that only sells a week at a time, the weekend never gets a chance to be picked over in advance.
Musaafer: Tuesday produced 14,491 of 71,716 openings, Saturday 510.
Semma: Tuesday 393 openings, Sunday 0.
Bungalow: Tuesday 593 openings, Monday 0.
Dhamaka: between 20% and 22% of checks on every night of the week.
Mostly late, with an early cluster and less in between. ADDA's most frequently open slot is 9:30 PM and Dhamaka's 9:30 PM, which when it lands at 9 PM or later is a strong hint that you are looking at the last seating of the night rather than at a table someone chose.
Semma splits early and late: of the 3,177 open slots we have sampled there, 49% were 9 PM or later, 44% were before 6 PM, and 7% fell in the 7 to 8:30 PM prime window. Musaafer leans early: its single most open slot is 12:15 PM, 93% of what opens is before 6 PM, and 1% is prime time. ADDA splits 40% early and 50% late, with 10% prime.
Bungalow's most frequently open slot is 10:00 PM, but 19% of its sampled slots are prime time, and Dhamaka puts 24% there. At a restaurant that fills the instant it releases, most of what appears afterwards is a cancellation, and cancellations mirror what people booked in the first place, which is heavily 7:30 PM on a Friday. That is why the hardest rooms sometimes surface the best hours, and why the table you actually wanted does exist. It simply does not wait.
Semma: most open slot 5:00 PM, 49% of open slots at 9 PM or later, 7% prime time.
Musaafer: most open slot 12:15 PM, 93% early, 1% prime time.
ADDA: most open slot 9:30 PM, 40% early and 50% late, 10% prime time.
Bungalow: most open slot 10:00 PM, with 19% of open slots at prime time.
Dhamaka: most open slot 9:30 PM, with 24% prime time.
Three of them publish the same hour and disagree about everything else. Semma opens 15 days ahead at 9 AM, ADDA 15 days ahead at 9 AM and Dhamaka 7 days ahead at 9 AM, all on SevenRooms, in each case according to the restaurant's own booking page rather than a round-up or a forum post. Dhamaka's is the shortest runway of any room on this page.
Bungalow opens 20 days ahead at 11 AM through Resy. The Ambassadors Clubhouse opens approximately two weeks before the first of the month at midnight, so the competition there happens while most of New York is asleep. Musaafer opens 14 days ahead at 9 AM on OpenTable.
Where our measurements and a restaurant's stated rule disagree, the restaurant wins and we say so. A modal hour in our logs can be an artifact of when inventory becomes visible to a checker rather than when a restaurant intends to open it, so we publish the restaurant's rule. The practical advice is cheap: keep the alarm for the stated hour and add a look the night before.
The volume of release activity differs enormously too, and it tracks difficulty better than the release hour does. We have observed 337 release events at Semma across 58 days and 308 at ADDA across 60, against 68 at Dhamaka and 6 at The Ambassadors Clubhouse. A room whose drop we can barely catch is a room you will not catch either.
Semma: 15 days ahead at 9 AM, on SevenRooms, per the restaurant.
ADDA: 15 days ahead at 9 AM, on SevenRooms, per the restaurant.
Dhamaka: 7 days ahead at 9 AM, on SevenRooms, per the restaurant.
Bungalow: 20 days ahead at 11 AM, on Resy.
The Ambassadors Clubhouse: approximately two weeks before the first of the month at midnight, on Resy.
Musaafer: 14 days ahead at 9 AM, on OpenTable.
The most bookable of the New York group, from the top: Musaafer (33%), Dhamaka (23%) and ADDA (7%). Musaafer is the better answer if your party is four: it reads 33% for two and 43% for four. Dhamaka's even spread across the week means a Saturday is a real request rather than a fantasy, and ADDA rewards someone willing to aim at a Wednesday.
The honest ranking matters more than the reputation. If what you want is an outstanding modern Indian dinner in New York this month, rather than one specific dining room, then the open room this week beats waiting on the tightest one, and that is invisible on any page that treats all these rooms as equally impossible.
The wider comparison is worth keeping in view too. Copra in San Francisco, the same broad category of restaurant, showed a table on 93% of dates across 255,660 checks. Modern Indian is not a scarce cuisine. A few specific New York rooms that a specific wave of attention has landed on are scarce: the New York Indian average is 11%, and the hardest New York cuisines with five or more rooms are Indian 11%, Italian 20% and American 30%.
Dhamaka: 23% for a two-top and 23% for a four-top.
Musaafer: 33% for a two-top and 43% for a four-top.
ADDA: 7% for a two-top and 17% for a four-top, best on a Wednesday.
The New York Indian rooms average 11%, against 93% for Copra in San Francisco.
Two paths work, and at the fully booked rooms the second one does most of the work. The first is the release: alarm set, the right app already open, party size chosen, and the room's own best night in mind rather than a Friday. The second is a cancellation after the release is gone, which is where nearly every Ambassadors Clubhouse, Bungalow or Semma table that reaches an ordinary diner actually comes from.
Cancellations run on no schedule. They surface as plans change and parties shrink, and the freed seat belongs to whoever sees it first. A table that appears at 3 PM on a Tuesday is invisible unless something is watching continuously, and nobody can refresh six booking pages across three platforms all day while holding down a job.
SnagRes re-checks these restaurants on Resy, SevenRooms, OpenTable and Tock around the clock and texts or emails you the moment a table matching your request appears. We do not book it, hold it or resell it. The alert reaches you, and you book the table yourself, in your own name, on the restaurant's own platform. That is a real line rather than a technicality: services that charge for the booking itself, such as the roughly 75 dollars per successful reservation TableSwap publishes on top of its subscription, attach a fee to a restaurant seat, which is the practice New York wrote its 2024 reservation law to stop. We never offer or arrange a booking, so there is nothing to resell.
The reason we can point you at a Wednesday at ADDA and a Tuesday at Bungalow rather than a shrug is the size of the list. Nobody watching tens of thousands of restaurants can tell you which night Bungalow opens on, how much more often Musaafer opens on a Tuesday than a Saturday, or that one NoMad dining room has produced 10 openings in 613,215 looks.
Set the alarm for the exact hour the room you want releases, with the right app already loaded.
Ask for the room's own best night: Tuesday at Musaafer, Wednesday at ADDA, Tuesday at Semma.
Check a four-top as well as a two-top: Semma reads 0% against 0%, Musaafer 43% against 33%.
Expect a late table and take it, since that is where most of what opens lands.
At the fully booked rooms, be ready at the drop and let an alert catch the cancellations, which is where most seats come from.
Put an alert on the exact table you want rather than checking by hand, since openings appear at hours nobody can predict.
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