The hardest reservations in Greenwich Village are Carbone, Somssi, and The Eighty Six, each of which showed a bookable table on 0% of the dates we checked. Carbone is Italian and Somssi is Modern Pan-Asian, both on Resy, while The Eighty Six is a steakhouse on SevenRooms. A 0% score does not mean they never seat anyone, only that a table almost never stays open long enough to grab at release.
In practice you get into Carbone by catching a cancellation, not by winning the 10 AM release. Carbone drops new dates at 10 AM, 30 days ahead on Resy, but showed a bookable table on 0% of days, so the seats real diners grab come from other guests giving up their reservations. Those openings surface at random hours and concentrate in the final couple of days before a date, which is why an alert beats manual refreshing.
The best Greenwich Village restaurants for actually getting a reservation are Minetta Tavern, bookable on 100% of dates, Cecchi's at 97%, and Golden Steer Steakhouse at 80%. Minetta Tavern and Cecchi's book on Resy and Golden Steer on OpenTable. Dame at 47% and Huso at 58% are a bit harder but still reachable if you book when a new date opens.
Minetta Tavern is one of the easier Greenwich Village tables to get. It releases at midnight on a 30-day window through Resy, and it showed a bookable table on 100% of the dates we checked. Booking a new date as it opens, or simply checking a few days ahead, almost always lands a table, so its French bistro classics and its famous burger stay within reach.
Release times vary by restaurant. Carbone and Somssi both drop at 10 AM on Resy, The Eighty Six and Golden Steer at 9 AM, and Dame at noon. Cecchi's and Minetta Tavern release at midnight. Windows range from two weeks at The Eighty Six and Somssi to 45 days at Golden Steer, so the right moment to book depends on which restaurant you are chasing.
Yes, Somssi is one of the hardest tables in Greenwich Village. The Modern Pan-Asian restaurant releases at 10 AM on a 14-day window through Resy, and it showed a bookable table on 0% of the dates we checked. The most reliable way in is to catch a cancellation, which is why watching it with an alert beats refreshing Resy by hand.
SnagRes tracks Greenwich Village restaurants across Resy, OpenTable, Tock, and SevenRooms and re-checks them on a short cycle. When a watched table opens, including a cancellation at a 0% restaurant like Carbone, Somssi, or The Eighty Six, it emails or texts you right away so you can book while the seat is still there. It alerts you to openings and does not book the table for you.
The three hardest reservations in Greenwich Village are Carbone, Somssi, and The Eighty Six. Each one showed a bookable table on 0% of the dates we checked, and that percentage is simply the share of checked dates with an open table, so a lower number means a harder restaurant. A 0% score does not mean these places never seat anyone. It means a table almost never stays open long enough for a normal person to find it and book it.
From that top tier the neighborhood opens up fast. Dame and Huso sit in the middle of the pack, still worth a plan but far from impossible. Golden Steer, Cecchi's, and Minetta Tavern are bookable on most nights, which makes them the reliable choices when you want a Greenwich Village dinner without a fight. SnagRes tracks all of these across Resy, OpenTable, Tock, and SevenRooms, so the ranking below reflects real availability rather than reputation.
Carbone, 0% of dates bookable. Italian, on Resy, releases at 10 AM on a 30-day window. The hardest table in the neighborhood.
Somssi, 0% of dates bookable. Modern Pan-Asian, on Resy, releases at 10 AM on a 14-day window.
The Eighty Six, 0% of dates bookable. Steakhouse, on SevenRooms, releases at 9 AM on a two-week window.
Dame, 47% of dates bookable. Seafood, on Resy, releases at 12 PM on a 21-day window.
Huso, 58% of dates bookable. Caviar tasting, on Resy, on a 30-day window.
Golden Steer Steakhouse, 80% of dates bookable. Steakhouse, on OpenTable, releases at 9 AM on a 45-day window.
Cecchi's, 97% of dates bookable. American, on Resy, releases at midnight on a 28-day window.
Minetta Tavern, 100% of dates bookable. French, on Resy, releases at midnight on a 30-day window.
For the 0% restaurants, getting a table means catching a cancellation. The scheduled release almost never leaves an open slot for a normal diner, because far more people hit the drop than there are seats, so the calendar empties within seconds. The tables real people actually grab come from other guests giving up reservations they booked weeks earlier.
Those cancellations do not arrive at a fixed time. They surface at random hours as plans change and parties shrink, and they concentrate in the final couple of days before a date. A seat freed at 4 PM on a Tuesday is invisible unless something is watching that restaurant for it, and no person can refresh four different booking platforms every few minutes for two straight days. This is the gap SnagRes fills. It re-checks each restaurant on a short cycle and emails or texts you the moment a watched table opens, so you hear about a Carbone or Somssi cancellation while the seat is still there.
The practical routine is to still set an alarm for the exact release time as a first attempt, then hand the two-day cancellation window over to an alert. Treat the drop as a long shot and the alert as your real path, because for a 0% restaurant the release almost never leaves a table and the cancellation almost always eventually does. You book the seat yourself the instant you are notified, since a good table can vanish again within minutes.
If you want a good dinner this weekend without gambling on a cancellation, three names carry the neighborhood. Minetta Tavern, the classic French bistro on Resy, showed a bookable table on 100% of the dates we checked, so its famous burger is genuinely within reach. Cecchi's, an American spot on Resy, came in at 97%, and Golden Steer Steakhouse on OpenTable sat at 80%. All three release far enough ahead that a little planning almost always lands a table.
Dame and Huso are the step up in difficulty without crossing into impossible. Dame, a seafood restaurant on Resy, was bookable on 47% of dates, and Huso, a caviar tasting counter also on Resy, on 58%. For these two, booking the moment a new date opens gives you a real shot, and an alert covers the nights that fill before you get there. That leaves the 0% trio, Carbone, Somssi, and The Eighty Six, as the only tables you truly have to chase.
Release time and window vary by restaurant, and knowing them is half the battle. Carbone and Somssi both drop at 10 AM, with Carbone 30 days ahead and Somssi 14 days ahead, both on Resy. The Eighty Six opens at 9 AM on a two-week window through SevenRooms. Golden Steer releases at 9 AM the furthest out, on a 45-day window, through OpenTable.
Dame opens at noon on a 21-day window, while Cecchi's and Minetta Tavern both release at midnight, Cecchi's 28 days ahead and Minetta 30 days ahead. The pattern is that the hardest tables share a mid-morning drop that a wall of people hit at the same second, which is exactly why refreshing at 10:01 usually finds an empty calendar. Setting an alarm for the exact release time helps for the middle tier, but for the 0% restaurants a cancellation alert is the more reliable path.
Carbone, Somssi, and The Eighty Six show a bookable table on 0% of days. Here are the hardest Greenwich Village reservations and how to catch one.
A ranking of the hardest Greenwich Village restaurant reservations, why the 0% tables stay empty, and which ones you can still book.
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