Carbone releases new reservation dates at 10:00 AM, exactly 30 days in advance, on Resy. A fresh date opens at the top of the rolling 30-day window each morning, so a table for a given night becomes bookable at 10 AM one month before that night. Prime weekend tables are usually claimed within seconds of the drop.
Yes, Carbone is one of the hardest tables in New York. Across 44,245 availability checks, it showed a bookable table on 0% of the days we tracked, which places it among the 42 NYC restaurants we monitor that sit at 0% availability. That does not mean it never seats 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. The release almost never leaves an open table for a normal diner, so the seats real people grab come from other guests giving up their reservations. Those cancellations concentrate in the final 48 hours before a date and surface at random hours.
Yes, and missing the drop is the normal experience. Since Carbone opens a bookable table on 0% of days at release, most diners get in through a last-minute cancellation instead. Watching the final 48 hours before your target date, which is when cancellations concentrate, is the most reliable path.
Carbone books through Resy, and only Resy. There is no separate phone line or second platform hosting its tables, so Resy is where the 10 AM drop happens and where cancellations reappear. Watching Resy at the right moments is the entire booking game for Carbone.
Carbone cancellations do not arrive at a fixed clock time, and they concentrate in the final roughly 48 hours before a date. As the dinner approaches, guests who booked a month earlier drop their reservations, and each freed seat is bookable by whoever sees it first. Because these openings surface at random hours, an alert beats manual refreshing.
We track Carbone on Resy and re-check it every 15 minutes, and the 0% figure comes from 44,245 availability checks across the window we watched. A restaurant scores 0% when no bookable table appeared on any day inside that window. The figure reflects release-time availability, not whether a cancellation ever briefly opens a seat.
Carbone releases new reservation dates at 10:00 AM, exactly 30 days in advance, through Resy. It sits in Greenwich Village, serves Italian food, and books only on Resy, so there is no phone line or second platform to try. Every morning a fresh date opens at the top of the rolling 30-day window, which means the night you want becomes bookable at 10 AM one month before you plan to dine.
The timing is the whole game. Because the window rolls forward one day at a time, there is a single moment each morning when a new date first appears, and prime Friday and Saturday tables are claimed within seconds of that moment. By 10:01 AM the night you wanted is usually already gone. This pattern is measured across 44,245 availability checks, re-checked every 15 minutes, so it is not a guess.
Carbone showed a bookable table on 0% of the days inside the window we tracked, across 44,245 availability checks. A 0% score does not mean Carbone never seats anyone. It means a table almost never sits open long enough for a normal person to find it and book it at release. Demand at 10 AM is so far above the number of tables that the calendar empties faster than you can tap through party size and time.
Carbone is not alone in this tier. It is one of 42 New York restaurants we track that sit at 0% availability, a group that also includes Semma, Torrisi, I Sodi, and The Polo Bar. What these restaurants share is a scheduled release that a wall of people hit at the same second. The structural problem is simple, because far more people want the 10 AM drop than there are seats, so refreshing at 10:02 AM is refreshing an empty calendar.
In practice, a Carbone table means catching a cancellation. Because the release itself almost never leaves a bookable slot for a normal person, the openings a real diner can actually grab come from someone else giving up their reservation. Those cancellations do not arrive at a fixed clock time. They surface at random hours as plans change, deposits get reconsidered, and parties shrink.
The cancellations that matter concentrate in the final roughly 48 hours before a date. As the dinner approaches, people who booked a month ago cancel, and for a short window that seat is bookable by whoever sees it first. A table someone releases at 4 PM on a Tuesday is invisible unless something is watching Carbone for it. That is the gap an availability tracker fills, because no human can refresh Resy every few minutes for two straight days.
Set an alarm for 10:00 AM exactly 30 days before the date you want, with Resy open and your party size ready.
Treat the 10 AM drop as a long shot, and plan to catch a cancellation as your real path to a table.
Focus your watching on the final 48 hours before your target date, which is when cancellations concentrate.
Let a tracker watch Carbone for you, since cancellations surface at random hours no person can predict.
Missing the 10 AM drop is the normal outcome, not a failure. Since Carbone shows an open table on 0% of days at release, almost everyone who eventually dines there got in another way. The move after a missed drop is to stop refreshing manually and start watching for cancellations, which is where nearly every catchable table comes from.
SnagRes re-checks Carbone every 15 minutes and alerts you by email or text the moment a table opens, so you are not the one stuck refreshing for 48 hours. When a cancellation surfaces at an odd hour, you hear about it while the seat is still there, instead of finding it already gone.
Carbone releases tables at 10 AM, 30 days out on Resy, yet shows a bookable table on 0% of days, so getting in usually means catching a cancellation.
How Carbone releases tables on Resy, why it sits at 0% availability, and how to actually get in by catching a cancellation.
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