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, six New York Italian rooms had every two-top taken across the current window: Carbone, Don Angie, I Sodi, Torrisi, Una Pizza Napoletana and Via Carota. Split by cumulative record, Una Pizza Napoletana is the rarest: 21 open tables across 208,858 checks, against 148 at Don Angie, 996 at Torrisi and 6,870 at I Sodi.
Carbone showed a bookable two-top on 0% of the dates in its current window and a four-top on 10%. Its cumulative record is 7,375 openings across 588,600 checks, and of the 18,139 slots we have logged, 0% were between 7:00 and 8:30 PM. The openings are real, they are just rarely at dinner time, most often 11:30 AM, and loosest on a Wednesday.
We re-check the same 284 restaurant calendars around the clock across New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago. The percentage is the share of dates in a restaurant's current booking window that a party of two could actually book, read on 19 October 2026. The counts are cumulative totals from every check we have run, 6,723,441 of them against these thirteen Italian restaurants alone.
No, and that is the trap. Don Angie and Una Pizza Napoletana both book on OpenTable, and both sit at the hard end of the list. Roscioli books on SevenRooms through its own site. The rest are on Resy, which is just enough to build a habit that costs you the other three.
Carbone opens 30 days ahead at 10 AM on Resy, and we have logged 581 release events there across 63 observation days. Torrisi, from the same group, opens 30 days ahead at 10 AM, and Via Carota 30 days ahead at 10 AM.
Mostly lunch or late. At I Sodi 98% of the 11,180 open slots we have logged fell before 6 PM. Via Carota puts 96% of its openings before 6 PM and L'Artusi 91%. Torrisi and I Cavallini go the other way, at 43% and 69% after 9 PM. At Carbone, 0% of 18,139 openings landed between 7:00 and 8:30 PM.
It depends on the room, and checking both costs one extra search. Torrisi reads 0% of dates open for four against 0% for two, I Cavallini 7% against 3%, Carbone 10% against 0%. Via Carota reads 0% for four against 0% for two, Lilia 33% against 63%, and Forsythia 43% against 70%.
Less than its reputation suggests. Lilia showed a bookable two-top on 63% of the dates in its window, 19 of 30. A four-top reads 33%. Wednesday is its loosest night and Saturday its tightest, and it opens 28 days ahead at 10 AM.
The most open, from the top: Forsythia (70%), Lilia (63%), L'Artusi (47%), Lucia Alimentari (37%) and Il Leone (33%). If prime time matters most, Lucia Alimentari puts 39% of its openings in the 7:00 to 8:30 PM band.
No. SnagRes watches these restaurants across Resy, OpenTable, Tock and SevenRooms and texts or emails you the moment a watched table opens. You book it yourself in your own account at the restaurant's own price, so the reservation is in your name and the restaurant's own cancellation policy applies. We never hold a seat under another name and never resell one.
Six Italian restaurants in New York had every two-top taken across the current booking window when we last read them, on 19 October 2026: Carbone, Don Angie, I Sodi, Torrisi, Una Pizza Napoletana and Via Carota. The hard end of the list, from the bottom, runs Carbone (0%), Don Angie (0%), I Sodi (0%), Torrisi (0%), Una Pizza Napoletana (0%), Via Carota (0%), I Cavallini (3%) and Roscioli (23%). We track thirteen Italian rooms in the city, and the median for the whole group is 3%.
Earlier versions of this page ranked these rooms differently, and the next rebuild may reorder them again. That is the deal with a measured page rather than a written one: the numbers move when the restaurants move, and we would rather correct a ranking than defend it.
A 0% reading does not mean a restaurant never seats anyone. It means a table almost never stays open long enough for someone who is not watching to find it and take it. Read the party-size pair below rather than the headline number, because at this end of the list a four-top and a two-top are frequently two different restaurants.
Una Pizza Napoletana, Lower East Side, OpenTable. 0% for two and 0% for four, and 21 open readings in the entire history of our checks, out of 208,858.
Don Angie, West Village, OpenTable, not Resy. 0% for two and 0% for four, on 148 open readings out of 201,735 checks.
Torrisi, Nolita, Resy. 0% for two and 0% for four, on 996 open readings out of 628,198 checks.
I Sodi, West Village, Resy. 0% for two and 3% for four, on 6,870 open readings out of 632,316 checks.
Carbone, Greenwich Village, Resy. 0% for two and 10% for four, on 7,375 open readings out of 588,600 checks.
I Cavallini, Williamsburg, Resy. 3% for two and 7% for four, on 12,021 open readings out of 603,304 checks.
Via Carota, West Village, Resy. 0% for two and 0% for four.
Roscioli, NoHo, SevenRooms, not Resy. 23% for two and 20% for four.
Il Leone, Park Slope, Resy. 33% for two and 33% for four.
Lucia Alimentari, SoHo, Resy. 37% for two and 37% for four.
L'Artusi, West Village, Resy. 47% for two and 43% for four.
Lilia, Williamsburg, Resy. 63% for two and 33% for four.
Forsythia, Lower East Side, Resy. 70% for two and 43% for four.
Most open Italian room we track in the city: Forsythia (70%).
The window percentage tells you what a person tapping through a calendar today would find. The cumulative record tells you something the percentage cannot, which is how rare an opening is and what shape it takes when it comes. At this end of the Italian list the cumulative numbers are startlingly small.
Una Pizza Napoletana is the extreme. Across 208,858 checks of its OpenTable calendar we have found a bookable table 21 times. Not a percentage: a count of occurrences, 16 of them on a Friday. That is the entire public availability history of the restaurant as we have observed it.
Don Angie has 148 openings across 201,735 checks, loosest on a Friday. Torrisi has produced 996 in 628,198 checks, with Wednesday its loosest night. I Sodi has produced 6,870 in 632,316, and 98% of its 11,180 logged open slots fell before 6 PM, the latest at 9:30 PM.
Carbone, at 7,375 openings in 588,600 checks, has one of the largest samples in the hard tier and a stark shape. Of the 18,139 open slots we have logged there, 0% fell between 7:00 PM and 8:30 PM. The most frequently open slot is 11:30 AM.
Una Pizza Napoletana: 21 openings in 208,858 checks, 16 of them on Fridays.
Don Angie: 148 openings in 201,735 checks, 37 of them on a Tuesday.
Torrisi: 996 openings in 628,198 checks, 43% of them at 9 PM or later, with 12:15 PM the most common.
I Sodi: 11,180 logged open slots, 98% before 6 PM and 0% in prime time.
Carbone: 18,139 logged open slots, 0% between 7:00 and 8:30 PM, most often 11:30 AM.
Most of these Italian restaurants book on Resy, which is exactly enough to build a wrong habit. Don Angie and Una Pizza Napoletana both book on OpenTable, and neither has a Resy listing to find. Roscioli books on SevenRooms, usually reached through its own site rather than a marketplace app.
That is not a technicality, it is the whole outcome for two of the hardest rooms. If Resy is the only app you check, a Don Angie opening and a Una Pizza Napoletana opening are invisible to you, and both are rare enough that missing the notification means missing the year. The 21 Una Pizza openings we have ever logged all happened somewhere a Resy-only diner was not looking.
The platform also changes the rhythm. Don Angie opens its OpenTable calendar 7 days ahead, one of the shortest windows in New York, which compresses everyone who wants the same Saturday into the same few seconds and leaves no quiet far edge to pick from. Roscioli's SevenRooms calendar opens 14 days ahead at 10 AM. Carbone opens 30 days ahead at 10 AM, a completely different planning problem.
So the practical first question about a hard Italian table in New York is not when it drops. It is where it lives.
On OpenTable, not Resy: Don Angie (7 days ahead) and Una Pizza Napoletana (14 days ahead at 9 AM).
On SevenRooms: Roscioli (14 days ahead at 10 AM), usually reached through the restaurant's own site.
On Resy: Carbone, Torrisi, Via Carota, Lilia, Forsythia, Lucia Alimentari, I Cavallini, L'Artusi, I Sodi and Il Leone.
One watch across Resy, OpenTable, Tock and SevenRooms removes the question of which app a given restaurant happens to use.
Ten in the morning is the usual New York Italian hour. Carbone opens 30 days ahead at 10 AM, and we have logged 581 release events there across 63 observation days. Torrisi, from the same group, opens 30 days ahead at 10 AM, Via Carota 30 days ahead at 10 AM, Lilia 28 days ahead at 10 AM, Forsythia 14 days ahead at 10 AM, Roscioli 14 days ahead at 10 AM and I Sodi 13 days ahead at 10 AM.
The rooms that break the pattern are worth knowing precisely because everyone else is awake at ten. I Cavallini opens 14 days ahead at 8 AM and L'Artusi 14 days ahead at 9 AM. If you are choosing between two similar rooms, the one whose drop is earlier in the morning has a smaller crowd at the door.
Don Angie lists 7 days ahead and Una Pizza Napoletana 14 days ahead at 9 AM. On a window that short, an hour's error is the entire game, so set an alert rather than a clock. Il Leone's Resy listing opens 20 days ahead with no published hour, and Lucia Alimentari publishes no rule we can confirm, so we give neither a clock.
One detail costs people drops they were awake for. A restaurant that says it books a set number of days in advance can read, on our side, as a calendar whose far edge is a day shorter. If you are unsure by a day, look on both mornings.
Carbone 30 days ahead at 10 AM; Torrisi 30 days ahead at 10 AM; Via Carota 30 days ahead at 10 AM.
Lilia 28 days ahead at 10 AM; Forsythia 14 days ahead at 10 AM; I Sodi 13 days ahead at 10 AM.
Earlier than the crowd: I Cavallini 14 days ahead at 8 AM, L'Artusi 14 days ahead at 9 AM.
No confirmed hour: Il Leone and Lucia Alimentari.
The Italian tables that come free in New York are mostly lunch tables and late tables, far less often the middle of the evening. Via Carota puts 96% of its openings before 6 PM, with 2:00 PM the single most common slot across 42,364 logged sightings. L'Artusi, from the same neighborhood, puts 91% of what opens before 6 PM, most often at 2:30 PM.
Others run the opposite way. I Cavallini puts 69% of its openings at 9 PM or later, with 9:45 PM its most common slot. Torrisi is at 43% late and Roscioli at 52%, with 10:00 PM its most common slot. What the hard tier rarely does is open at eight o'clock, which is the reservation everybody is actually asking for.
Weekdays move the odds as much as the hour. Carbone returned 1,938 open readings on a Wednesday against 646 on a Friday and 561 on a Saturday. I Sodi's Tuesday returned 1,509 against 326 on a Saturday. I Cavallini is loosest on a Monday, Via Carota on a Tuesday, and Lilia returned 67,678 open readings on a Wednesday against 16,237 on a Saturday.
Party size is the last lever and it cuts both ways, which is why we publish both readings. Torrisi reads 0% for two and 0% for four. I Cavallini reads 3% and 7%, Carbone 0% and 10%, I Sodi 0% and 3%. Via Carota reads 0% for two and 0% for four, Lilia 63% and 33%, Forsythia 70% and 43%. At some rooms a larger table is where the openings are. At others the larger table is the constraint.
Lunch rooms: Via Carota, 96% of openings before 6 PM. L'Artusi, 91%. I Sodi, 98%.
Late rooms: Torrisi at 43% after 9 PM, I Cavallini at 69%, Roscioli at 52%.
Loosest weekdays: Wednesday at Carbone, Monday at I Sodi, Monday at I Cavallini, Wednesday at Lilia.
Two against four: Torrisi 0% and 0%, I Cavallini 3% and 7%, Carbone 0% and 10%.
Two against four: Via Carota 0% and 0%, Lilia 63% and 33%, Forsythia 70% and 43%.
The most open end of the list, from the top: Forsythia (70%), Lilia (63%), L'Artusi (47%), Lucia Alimentari (37%) and Il Leone (33%). Forsythia on the Lower East Side showed a bookable table on 21 of 30 dates, and 28% of what it opens sits in the 7:00 to 8:30 PM band. Lilia in Williamsburg reads 63% for two, with Wednesday its loosest night.
Lucia Alimentari is the pick if prime time is what you care about: 39% of everything it opens falls in the 7:00 to 8:30 PM band. Il Leone in Park Slope puts 39% of its openings there. Roscioli is the one to watch on SevenRooms rather than Resy.
The sensible division of labour is to aim at these rooms when what you want is an excellent Italian dinner, and to spend alerts on the fully booked rooms when you want one specific room. Chasing Carbone for a Saturday at eight is the plan our data says works least often: 0% of the open slots we have logged there are in prime time, and its Saturday record is 561 open readings in 588,600 checks of every night.
We track 284 restaurants across New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago. That is the whole list, and the small number is the point. Table Alert advertises 62,198 restaurants. Nobody watching 62,198 rooms can tell you how many openings Una Pizza Napoletana has ever shown, which weekday Don Angie loosens on, or what time of day I Sodi's tables actually free up. We traded coverage for knowing the rooms we cover.
The figures come from re-checking the same calendars around the clock: 61,530,416 availability checks so far across the tracked list, of which 6,723,441 belong to these thirteen Italian restaurants. The percentages are a point-in-time reading of the current booking window, dated 19 October 2026. The counts are cumulative, because the raw snapshots behind them are pruned after a few days while the counters keep going.
We also never book a table. SnagRes watches these calendars and texts or emails you the moment one opens, and you book it yourself, in your own account, at the restaurant's own price. There is no bot holding a seat under a stranger's name and nothing for sale afterward. TableSwap charges $75 per successful reservation, which is the paid resale practice New York's 2024 reservation law was written to address, and we are not in that business.
The upshot is that the reservation is in your name from the first second, the restaurant keeps its own cancellation policy intact, and nothing happens to the table without you tapping to confirm it.
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