Carbone releases reservations on Resy 30 days ahead, at 10:00 AM ET. 81% of its dates had a table open up at some point.
Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 588,600 checks of Carbone through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
“Reservations for both lunch and dinner can be made through Resy or via email up to 30 days in advance, starting at 10:00 AM EST.”
Carbone releases tables 30 days ahead at 10 AM, local time, on Resy, one new date each morning. At our last check a table for two showed on 0% of the next 30 dates, but 81% of dates opened at some point, so the realistic route after the drop is a cancellation, caught by a text the moment it appears.
10:00 AM local time, 30 days in advance, on Resy, which is what Carbone's own listing says. We have logged 581 release events at Carbone across 63 days of observation, and 10:00 AM is the hour they cluster in. Prime tables are claimed within seconds.
Yes, and here is the measurement. On our 19 October 2026 reading, Carbone had a bookable two-top on 0% of the next 30 dates and a four-top on 10%. Across 588,600 availability checks, only 7,375 found a bookable two-top. It seats plenty of people. A table almost never sits open long enough for someone who is not watching to find it.
Either be ready on Resy at 10:00 AM exactly 30 days out with your party size preselected, or catch a cancellation afterward, which is how most diners get in. Flexibility beats persistence: take Tuesday or Wednesday, and accept lunch or a late table, because that is where our numbers say the openings are.
Lunch and very late dinner. Across 18,139 open slots we logged at Carbone, 0% fell between 7:00 PM and 8:30 PM. The most frequently open slot is 11:30 AM. 67% of openings are before 6 PM and 33% are at 9 PM or later.
Midweek. Tuesday returned 1,725 open two-top readings on 84,535 checks and Wednesday 1,938 on 84,409, while Friday returned 646 and Saturday 561 on a comparable number.
Yes. Carbone books through Resy, and its own listing also names email as a way to reserve. Resy is where the 10 AM drop happens and where cancellations reappear, so watching Resy at the right moments is the booking game for Carbone.
At no fixed hour. Cancellations surface as plans change, parties shrink and deposits get reconsidered, and they cluster in the final day or two before a date, when someone who booked a month earlier gives up the seat. Each freed table is bookable by whoever sees it first, usually within minutes, so an alert beats refreshing by hand.
No. SnagRes watches Carbone on Resy around the clock and alerts you by text or email the moment a table opens. You book it yourself in your own Resy account at the restaurant's own price. We never hold a table under another name and never resell one, unlike paid resale services that charge per successful reservation.
For the live calendar, see Carbone availability right now, rechecked around the clock.
Carbone releases a new date 30 days ahead at 10 AM, local time, on Resy. That is the rule on its own listing, and our record agrees: we have logged 581 separate release events at Carbone across 63 days of observation, and 10:00 AM is the hour they land in. The night you want becomes bookable one month before you plan to eat, and not a minute earlier.
Because the window rolls forward one day at a time, there is a single moment each morning when a fresh date appears at the far edge of the calendar. That moment is the whole contest. A wall of people hit it together, and by 10:01 AM the Friday you wanted usually reads as fully booked. Carbone sits in Greenwich Village, serves Italian food, and takes reservations through Resy or by email, and Resy is where the drop and the cancellations happen.
What the drop does not do is leave a table sitting out for someone to stumble onto later in the day. We have run 588,600 availability checks against the Carbone calendar. Of those, 7,375 came back with a bookable two-top, or 1% of all checks. That is the real texture of this restaurant. Not a locked door, but a door that stands open for a few seconds at a time, at hours nobody asked for.
Platform: Resy, with email as the only other route the restaurant names.
Release rule: 30 days ahead at 10 AM, across 581 release events we logged.
Booking window: 30 days, so a Saturday in November opens on a Saturday morning in October.
Sample behind every number here: 588,600 availability checks on Carbone alone.
On our reading of 19 October 2026, Carbone had a bookable two-top on 0% of the next 30 dates and a bookable four-top on 10%. Yet over the whole record, 81% of dates opened at some point. Those two figures sitting next to each other are the most useful thing on this page: the room opens up often, it just never stays open long.
A reading that low does not mean Carbone almost never seats anyone. It means a table almost never sits open long enough for a person who is not watching to find it. Across 588,600 checks, 1% of them found anything bookable at all.
For context, 39 of the 284 restaurants in our record showed no bookable two-top anywhere in the window on that same reading. What separates Carbone from the very hardest rooms is the churn underneath: 581 release events and dates that do open, briefly, at odd hours. There is inventory here. It moves fast.
Almost nothing that opens at Carbone is dinner at a normal hour. Across the 18,139 open slots we have logged there, 0% fell between 7:00 PM and 8:30 PM. The single most frequently open slot is 11:30 AM.
The earliest table we have seen offered is 11:30 AM and the latest is 11:30 PM. 67% of everything that opens is before 6 PM, and almost all of that is lunch. Another 33% lands at 9 PM or later. The middle of the evening, the part of the night people are actually asking about, is the part that almost never comes free.
The weekday pattern leans midweek. Tuesday returned 1,725 open readings for a two-top on 84,535 checks, and Wednesday 1,938 on 84,409. Friday returned 646 and Saturday 561 on a comparable number of checks.
Put those two patterns together and you get the version of Carbone a normal person can book: a midweek lunch, or a very late table. The version everyone is fighting over, 8 PM on a Friday for two, is the one our record almost never sees open.
Most frequently open slot: 11:30 AM.
Prime time, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM: 0% of 18,139 logged openings.
Before 6 PM: 67% of what opens, concentrated in lunch.
At 9 PM or later: 33% of what opens.
Best weekdays: Tuesday (2%) and Wednesday (2%). Friday: 1%. Saturday: 1%.
Two approaches work, and neither one is refreshing at random. The first is being ready at 10:00 AM on the 30th day before your date, with Resy open, signed in, and your party size already selected, because the seconds you spend tapping are the seconds the table is gone. The second, and the one most diners end up relying on, is catching a cancellation.
Cancellations do not keep office hours. They surface as plans change, parties shrink and deposits get reconsidered, and they cluster in the last day or two before a date, when somebody who booked a month earlier gives up the seat. A table released at 4:10 PM on a Tuesday is invisible unless something is watching for it, and it is usually claimed again within minutes.
Flexibility is worth more than persistence here. Take Tuesday or Wednesday instead of Friday, and say yes to lunch or to a late table. Each of those moves points you at where the openings measurably are, rather than at the one slot the entire city is refreshing for.
Set an alarm for 10:00 AM exactly 30 days before your date, with Resy open and your party size ready.
Aim lunch or late, since 67% of logged openings are before 6 PM and another 33% are 9 PM or later.
Prefer Tuesday or Wednesday, which produced 1,725 and 1,938 open readings against Friday's 646.
Let an alert do the waiting, because cancellations surface at hours no person can sit and refresh through.
We track 284 restaurants across New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago. That is the entire list, and the small number is the point. Nobody watching tens of thousands of rooms can tell you which hour opens at Carbone or which weekday produces its openings. 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 588,600 are Carbone. When a number on this page moves, it moves because the restaurant changed, not because we rewrote a sentence.
We also never book a table. SnagRes watches Carbone and texts or emails you the moment one appears, and then you book it yourself, in your own Resy account, at the restaurant's own price. There is no bot holding a seat under a stranger's name and nothing for sale afterward. Paid resale is the practice New York's 2024 reservation law was written to address, and we are not in that business.
The practical upshot is simple. The reservation is in your name from the first second, the restaurant keeps its own cancellation policy intact, and nothing about the table happens without you tapping to confirm it.
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Carbone releases reservations 30 days ahead, and its calendar runs about 30 days deep in our checks. At the last check a table for two was bookable on 0% of the dates in that window, so the release itself is the one real chance, and the rest come back as cancellations.
Because the tables that exist are gone at the drop. Across 588,600 checks, Carbone has shown a bookable table for two on 0% of dates, though 81% of dates opened at some point. We have recorded 581 release events there. 0% of the openings we have seen were between 7:00 and 8:30 PM. The seats you can actually get are the ones that come back when someone cancels, which is why an alert on the date beats refreshing.
Carbone's calendar reaches 1 December on Sunday, 1 November, and each later date follows the same rule: 30 days ahead. Hours are local to the restaurant.
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