There is no single hardest table, because 42 restaurants we track all sat at 0% availability over the measured window. Semma, Carbone, Torrisi, I Sodi, and Tatiana are among the most sought-after in that tier. All of them book through Resy, and all of them released essentially nothing to the open public during our tracking.
We monitor about 140 restaurants across New York and San Francisco and re-check each one every 15 minutes. A restaurant scores 0% when no bookable table appeared on any day inside the window we watched. The figures on this page were measured as of August 2026.
Yes, but rarely in a way a manual refresh can catch. Most openings at a 0% restaurant come from last-minute cancellations that surface at random hours. That is why being alerted the instant a table opens matters more than checking the app over and over.
Resy hosts the majority of the hardest New York tables. Of the 80 hardest New York reservations we track, 60 are on Resy, with 11 on OpenTable, 6 on Tock, and 3 on SevenRooms.
The hardest restaurant reservations in New York are the ones that show no bookable table at all, and SnagRes tracks 42 restaurants that sat at 0% availability across the entire window we measured. These are the tables that never appear on their own, no matter how often you refresh the app. Semma, Carbone, Torrisi, I Sodi, Tatiana, and The Polo Bar all fall into this hardest tier.
This ranking is measured as of August 2026, re-checked every 15 minutes, drawn from the roughly 140 restaurants we monitor across New York and San Francisco. A score of 0% does not mean a restaurant never seats anyone. It means a table almost never sits open long enough for a normal person to find it and book it.
Here are the New York restaurants that showed a bookable slot on 0% of the days we checked. Every one of them books through Resy, which is where the hardest New York tables concentrate. Release times and windows are listed where we have confirmed them.
Semma (West Village, Indian): releases at 9 AM on a 15-day window on Resy, and showed a bookable slot on 0% of the days we checked.
I Sodi (West Village, Italian): books through Resy and showed an open table on 0% of the days we tracked it.
Torrisi (Nolita, Italian): books through Resy and sat at 0% availability across the entire tracked window.
Tatiana by Kwame Onwuachi (Lincoln Center, American): books through Resy and never showed an open table on any day we checked.
Carbone (Greenwich Village, Italian): releases at 10 AM 30 days out on Resy, and showed a bookable slot on 0% of the days we checked.
The Polo Bar (Midtown East, American): releases at 10 AM 30 days out on Resy, and stayed at 0% availability throughout.
Monkey Bar (Midtown East, American): releases at 9 AM on a 21-day window on Resy, and showed no bookable table on any tracked day.
Bungalow (East Village, Indian): releases at 11 AM on a 20-day window on Resy, and sat at 0% availability the whole time.
4 Charles Prime Rib (West Village, American): books through Resy and showed a bookable slot on 0% of the days we checked.
Don Angie (West Village, Italian): books through Resy and never opened a table on any day we tracked.
Dhamaka (Lower East Side, Indian): books through Resy and held at 0% availability across the tracked window.
Naks (East Village, Filipino): releases at 9 AM on a 7-day window on Resy, and showed no open table on any day we checked.
Raku (East Village, Japanese): books through Resy on a 14-day window and sat at 0% availability throughout.
Carbone is hard for a structural reason, not a mysterious one. It releases tables at 10 AM exactly 30 days in advance, so every prime Friday and Saturday is claimed within seconds of the calendar opening. By the time you open Resy at 10:01 AM, the day you wanted is already gone. The same mechanic explains The Polo Bar, which also drops at 10 AM on a 30-day window.
Restaurants like Semma, Monkey Bar, and Naks release earlier, at 9 AM, on shorter windows of 15, 21, and 7 days. A shorter window means fewer total dates exist at any moment, which makes each one scarcer. Across the confirmed release times we track, the pattern is a heavy cluster at 9 AM and 10 AM, plus a smaller group that drops at midnight. If you are refreshing at a random hour, you are almost always too late.
Most of the hardest New York tables live on Resy. Of the 80 hardest New York reservations we track, 60 are on Resy, 11 are on OpenTable, 6 are on Tock, and 3 are on SevenRooms. That concentration matters because each platform releases tables differently, and Resy rolling and batch drops reward whoever is watching the calendar at the right minute.
Knowing the platform tells you where to point your attention, and it tells you which release rhythm you are fighting. A tracker that watches all four platforms at once removes the guesswork of remembering which app a given restaurant uses.
The honest answer is that raw refreshing does not scale, because the openings you want arrive at unpredictable moments. Two things actually work. First, show up at the exact release time for the restaurants that drop on a schedule, which for most of this list means 9 AM or 10 AM with your calendar open and your party size ready. Second, catch cancellations, which surface at random hours and account for most same-week openings at a 0% restaurant.
A table someone gives up at 4 PM on a Tuesday is invisible unless something is watching for it. That is the gap an availability tracker fills. SnagRes re-checks every restaurant every 15 minutes and emails or texts you the moment a table opens, so you are not the one stuck refreshing.
The 42 hardest NYC restaurant reservations, ranked from real availability data. Semma, Carbone, Torrisi and more sit at 0% open, mostly on Resy.
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