Chez Fifi releases reservations on SevenRooms 21 days ahead, at 10:00 AM ET. A table for two was open on 43% of dates, so booking ahead works.
Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 268,743 checks of Chez Fifi through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
Chez Fifi releases tables 21 days ahead at 10 AM on SevenRooms, one new date each morning. At our last check a table for two was open on 43% of the next 30 dates, mostly late: 87% of openings are 9 PM or later, so a prime hour means being there at the drop or getting a text when one comes back.
Pick the hour first. Late tables are bookable directly on SevenRooms, since 87% of open slots are 9 PM or later and 10:45 PM is the most common. For a 7:00 to 8:30 PM seat, be ready at 10:00 AM exactly 21 days before the date, or watch for a cancellation.
Only at prime time. Chez Fifi showed a bookable table on 43% of the next 30 dates, 13 dates in all, and its calendar reaches just 21 days out. The catch is the hour: 10:45 PM is the most frequently open slot and the 7:00 to 8:30 PM band is 3% of all openings.
No. Chez Fifi books through SevenRooms only, with no second platform hosting its tables, so SevenRooms is where the 10 AM drop happens and where cancellations reappear. Across 268,743 checks of that calendar, 95,007 found a bookable table.
Tuesday. Of 38,546 Tuesday checks, 19,208 found a bookable table, a rate of 50%, against 14% on Friday. Monday runs about 56% and Saturday about 22%.
No, it is easier. A party of four found an open date on 57% of dates in the window, against 43% for a party of two. Two-tops are the most requested size and the first to go, so shrinking your group costs you availability here rather than buying it.
Yes, usually a late one. The tables that stay on the calendar are 9 PM and later, and 13 of the next 30 dates had something bookable. For a prime hour after the drop, watch for a cancellation, since those surface at random hours and are gone within minutes.
No. SnagRes watches Chez Fifi on SevenRooms and alerts you by email or text the moment a table opens. You book it yourself in your own account at the restaurant's own price. We never hold a table under another name, never charge a fee per reservation, and never resell one.
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It depends on the hour, not the night. Chez Fifi showed a bookable table for two on 43% of the dates in the 30-day window we track, which is 13 dates. Its calendar only reaches 21 days out, so those open dates come from the dates it can actually show you, and inside its own window this Upper East Side French room is open more often than not.
The hour is the real constraint, and we can be exact about it. Of 268,349 individual open slots we have recorded here, 87% were 9 PM or later and the single most frequently open time is 10:45 PM. Only 3% fall between 7:00 and 8:30 PM. A late dinner at Chez Fifi is genuinely gettable on most nights. An 8 PM one, on a night you have already chosen, is one of the harder asks in the neighbourhood.
Those figures rest on 268,743 checks of this one calendar, of which 95,007 found at least one bookable table. That is what lets this page tell you which table to ask for rather than simply calling the restaurant popular. The difficulty is not evenly spread across the evening, and knowing where it concentrates is the entire advantage.
Open dates for two: 43%, 13 of 30.
Open dates for four: 57%, 17 of 30.
Checks that found a table: 95,007 of 268,743.
Share of open slots at 9 PM or later: 87%.
Share between 7:00 and 8:30 PM: 3%.
The end of the night, overwhelmingly. The latest seatings on this calendar carry most of what opens, and 10:45 PM is both the most frequently open slot and the latest time the restaurant offers.
Work backwards from there and the calendar thins fast. Everything at 9 PM or later is 87% of what opens. The prime 7:00 to 8:30 PM band is 3%. Everything before 6 PM is 9%, with 5:00 PM the earliest time we have ever seen offered here.
The practical reading is simple. If you can eat late, Chez Fifi is a restaurant you can usually just book, tonight or next week, without any of the tactics on this page. If you want a prime hour on a fixed date, you are competing for a thin slice of the calendar, and that is a release-day project rather than a search.
10:45 PM: the most frequently open slot, and the latest seating offered.
9 PM or later: 87% of open slots.
Before 6 PM: 9%, with 5:00 PM the earliest slot we have seen.
Tuesday, and by a wide margin over Friday. Of 38,546 Tuesday checks, 19,208 found a bookable table, a rate of 50%. Friday managed 5,357 of 37,864, or 14%. Monday runs at about 56%, and Wednesday at about 31%.
The weekend is less of a cliff here than at most hard rooms: Saturday sits around 22% and Thursday around 31%. Friday is the night that behaves like a different restaurant.
Put the two axes together and the plan writes itself. Tuesday late in the evening is the easiest table on this calendar by a wide margin. Friday at 8 PM is the hardest. Both are the same restaurant, and the gap between them is far larger than anything persistence can close.
Tuesday: 50% of checks found a table.
Monday: about 56%. Wednesday: about 31%.
Saturday: about 22%. Sunday: about 43%.
Thursday: about 31%. Friday: 14%, the hardest night.
Chez Fifi releases new reservation dates 21 days ahead at 10 AM on SevenRooms, on a rolling booking window. It books only on SevenRooms, so there is no second platform to work in parallel. Each morning a fresh date opens at the far edge of that window, which means the night you want becomes bookable at 10 AM exactly three weeks before you dine.
The prime seats go at that moment, and almost nowhere else. Because this calendar keeps late tables and loses early ones, the 10 AM release is where a 7 or 8 PM reservation is won or lost. If a late table is fine, you do not need to be there at 10 AM at all, which makes Chez Fifi one of the few hard rooms where the release is optional rather than mandatory.
We have recorded 102 new-date releases here across 53 days, alongside the 268,743 date checks behind the rest of this page, so the pattern is measured rather than repeated. A three-week window is also a friendlier planning horizon than the two-week windows common among the hardest rooms in the city.
Release rule: 21 days ahead at 10 AM, one new date per morning.
Release events observed by SnagRes: 102, across 53 days.
No, and at Chez Fifi it is easier. A party of four found an open date on 57% of the dates in the window, 17 of 30, against 43% for a party of two. That is the opposite of what most people assume when they trim a group down to improve their chances.
The reason is in how a dining room is laid out rather than in how popular it is. Two-tops are the most requested size in New York and the first to be taken, while larger tables are held back, combined, or simply asked for less often. We see the same inversion at other rooms we track: Le Veau d'Or opens on 3% of dates for two and 3% for four.
So if your group is genuinely four, ask for four. Shrinking the party is a tactic that costs you availability at this restaurant instead of buying it.
Decide which table you actually want first, because the two answers barely overlap. For a 9:30 PM or later seat, open SevenRooms and book it, since those are the tables that survive on this calendar. For a prime-hour table, be ready at 10:00 AM exactly 21 days before the date, signed in with your party size already selected.
If the prime slot is gone by the time you look, a cancellation is the second path. Those surface at random hours as plans change and parties shrink, and they cluster in the days just before a date. A table someone releases at 4 PM on a Tuesday is invisible unless something is watching Chez Fifi for it, which is the gap an alert fills.
The rest is arithmetic you can use. Move the night to Tuesday and you are at 50% instead of Friday's 14%. Keep the party at four and you are at 57% instead of 43%. Accept a late seat and you are inside the 87% of openings at 9 PM or later. Do all three and you barely need a strategy at all.
Book a late seat directly. 9 PM or later is 87% of all openings.
Set an alarm for 10:00 AM exactly 21 days ahead if you want a 7:00 to 8:30 PM table.
Sign in to SevenRooms first, so you are not typing account details while the prime tables go.
Ask for Tuesday rather than Friday: 50% against 14%.
Keep a party of four as four. The four-top rate is 57% against 43% for two.
Let an alert watch for a prime-hour cancellation, because those surface at hours no person can predict.
You have lost the prime seats, not the restaurant. The late tables are the ones that stay on this calendar, and on 13 of the next 30 dates there was something bookable, so a late dinner is often still there hours after the drop. That is a genuinely different position from the rooms where missing the release means missing everything.
For a prime hour on a fixed night, watch for a cancellation instead of refreshing. SnagRes watches Chez Fifi on SevenRooms and emails or texts you the moment a table opens, so a freed 8 PM seat reaches you while it is still there rather than after someone else has taken it.
We tell you about the table and you book it yourself, in your own account, at the restaurant's own price. We do not book it, hold it under another name, or resell it. That line matters in a category where some services charge a fee for every reservation they secure and marketplaces resell tables outright, which is the practice New York's 2024 reservation law was written to stop.
Chez Fifi sits among the French rooms we watch in New York, which is a more useful thing to know than whether it is hard in the abstract. Per Se showed a bookable table for two on 40% of dates, Minetta Tavern on 42%, Bridges on 63%, Le Bernardin on 61%, Chez Fifi on 43%, Buvette on 0%, Le Veau d'Or on 3% and Raf's on 40%.
The comparison that matters most is the one up the street. Le Veau d'Or is the other Upper East Side French room on SevenRooms, releasing 14 days ahead at 9 AM against Chez Fifi's 21 days ahead at 10 AM, and it stops seating by 9:30 PM. If the plan is a late French dinner on the Upper East Side, Chez Fifi is the room that sells one.
Both rooms lean late, but they lean late differently. Chez Fifi runs to 10:45 PM and puts 87% of its openings at 9 PM or later. Le Veau d'Or puts 63% of its openings at 9 PM or later, with nothing after 9:30 PM. Two restaurants under a mile apart, with little overlap in what you can actually book late.
Per Se: 40% of dates open for two.
Minetta Tavern: 42%. Bridges: 63%. Le Bernardin: 61%.
Chez Fifi: 43%, and 57% for a party of four.
Buvette: 0%. Le Veau d'Or: 3%. Raf's: 40%.
Every number here is a count of something we watched happen on SevenRooms: 268,743 date checks, 95,007 of which found a table, 268,349 individual open slots, and 102 release events across 53 days. The open rate is a reading of the current window and moves with the calendar; the slot and day-of-week shares cover the whole record and move slowly.
The reason we can publish that for one Upper East Side bistro is that the list is short on purpose. SnagRes tracks 284 restaurants, with 61,530,416 logged availability checks between them. Services in this category advertise tens of thousands of restaurants, and none of them can tell you which hour opens at Chez Fifi, because nothing watching that many rooms is watching any one of them closely.
If you eat all over the country, a wider service is the better fit and we will say so. If Chez Fifi is on your list, this is the closest thing that exists to a record of what its calendar actually does.
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Chez Fifi releases reservations 21 days ahead at 10 AM, and its calendar runs about 30 days deep in our checks. At the last check a table for two was bookable on 43% of the dates in that window, so book at the release for a weekend and watch the date for a weeknight.
Chez Fifi's calendar reaches 1 December on Tuesday, 10 November at 10 AM, and each later date follows the same rule: 21 days ahead at 10 AM. Hours are local to the restaurant.
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