Cotogna releases reservations on SevenRooms 30 days ahead. The exact hour is not confirmed yet. 68% of its dates had a table open up at some point.
Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 277,363 checks of Cotogna through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
Ask for a Wednesday or Thursday in the afternoon, which is where Cotogna's availability actually lives. A table for two shows on 20% of dates, and 95% of every opening we have recorded comes before 6 PM, most often at 3:00 PM. If your date is fixed, watch for a cancellation instead of checking by hand.
Cotogna books on SevenRooms up to 30 days ahead, so each date becomes reachable about a month out. No release hour is published, and the restaurant's own site does not state the rule, so we do not guess one. Our record shows 373 release events across 62 days of observation: availability appears throughout the day rather than at one morning drop.
Yes. Cotogna books through SevenRooms, on a rolling 30-day window, usually reached through the restaurant's own website rather than a marketplace app. That is part of why its openings go unnoticed: 28 of the 284 restaurants we track book this way, and nobody keeps those pages open.
On the SnagRes Cotogna page, snagres.com/restaurants/cotogna, which lists every date that had a table at the last check. This guide explains the pattern behind those dates: a table for two on 20% of dates, mostly in the afternoon.
At dinner, yes. Cotogna showed a bookable table on 20% of the dates in its window. It is hard rather than impossible: across 277,363 checks, 62% of Wednesdays had a table against 7% of Saturdays, so the night you choose changes the answer more than anything else you control.
Mid-afternoon. Of 429,960 recorded open slots, 95% were before 6 PM, with 3:00 PM the most frequently open time. Only 1% were between 7:00 and 8:30 PM, so prime dinner is the rarest thing on this calendar.
Rarely. Across 277,363 availability checks, 7% of Saturdays showed a bookable table, against 62% of Wednesdays. If Saturday is fixed, an alert on a cancellation is realistically the only route.
Wednesday at 62% of checks, then Thursday at 59% and Friday at 33%. Monday is 9%, Tuesday 8% and Saturday 7%. Sunday has never opened in 39,640 checks.
No. The four-top calendar was open on 17% of dates against 20% for two people, so the larger party was the easier booking in our last read. It costs nothing to check both party sizes before deciding the month is closed.
Quince shows a table for two on 40% of dates and for four on 40%, and its most frequently open time is 5:00 PM, against 3:00 PM at Cotogna. They share a neighborhood, a family and a platform, and not much else about how they book.
Cotogna reservations open on SevenRooms 30 days ahead, one new date each day, with no published release hour. A table for two shows on 20% of dates at any given moment, and 95% of openings come before 6 PM, most often at 3:00 PM. So ask for a Wednesday or Thursday afternoon, and set an alert for a dinner date that cannot move. See Cotogna availability right now.
Cotogna is genuinely hard at dinner, and it is hard in a specific way worth knowing before you spend a week on it. In the 30-day window we last read, it showed a bookable table for two on 6 of 30 dates, which is 20%, and for four on 5, which is 17%.
That is thin. It is also not the same thing as impossible: several rooms we track show nothing for two on any date in the window, and Cotogna is not one of them. Over the whole record, 68% of dates opened at some point. Openings exist here. They are just concentrated in places most people never look, which the next two sections set out precisely.
We can be that exact because we keep checking. Cotogna has been through 277,363 availability checks in our records, across every date in its booking window, for two people and four, around the clock. The 20% is a reading of the current window rather than a lifetime average, and it moves.
For scale, Quince, Cotogna's three-Michelin-star sibling around the corner in Jackson Square, shows a table for two on 40% of dates in the same kind of read, and 40% for a party of four. Same family, same neighborhood, same booking platform, and two different calendars.
The middle of the afternoon, and this is the single most useful fact on the page. Of the 429,960 open slots we have recorded at Cotogna, 95% were before 6 PM. The most frequently open time is 3:00 PM, and the earliest we have recorded is 3:00 PM.
Prime dinner is almost absent. Just 1% of Cotogna's open slots landed in the 7:00 to 8:30 PM band, against 34% at Boulevard. If you are holding out for a 7:30 PM table here, you are waiting for the rarest thing this calendar produces.
There is a small tail at the other end. 3% of open slots are 9 PM or later, with 9:15 PM the latest opening we have ever seen. So the realistic Cotogna reservation is mid-afternoon, or very late, and the hours in between belong to people who booked a month ago.
None of that is a complaint about the restaurant. A room that fills its dinner service and leaves its afternoon open is simply a room whose availability lives in the afternoon, and knowing which quarter-hour to ask for is worth more than any amount of refreshing.
Most frequently open time: 3:00 PM.
Before 6 PM: 95% of recorded openings. Prime time, 7:00 to 8:30 PM: 1%.
9 PM or later: 3%, and 9:15 PM is the latest we have ever recorded.
For four people: 17% of dates, against 20% for two.
Wednesday, and the weekday gap here is one of the widest we have measured in San Francisco. Across 277,363 availability checks, Cotogna had a bookable table on 62% of Wednesdays and 7% of Saturdays. We have never seen a bookable Sunday table here in 39,640 checks.
Thursday is the second-best night at 59%, then Friday at 33%. After that it drops off a cliff: Monday 9%, Tuesday 8%. Tuesday being one of the hardest nights is the detail that catches people out, because the received wisdom about early-week dining says the opposite, and at this particular room it is simply wrong.
Put the two findings together and the shape of a realistic Cotogna booking is obvious. A Wednesday afternoon is a different restaurant, statistically, from a Saturday at 7:30 PM. One of those is available much of the time we look; the other is close to the rarest combination on the board.
Wednesday 62% of checks showed an open table, Thursday 59%, Friday 33%.
Monday 9%, Tuesday 8%, Saturday 7%.
Sunday: no open tables in 39,640 checks, which reads as a closure rather than a hard night.
Cotogna books through SevenRooms on a rolling 30-day window, so a new date comes into range each day and a given night becomes reachable about a month out. There is no second platform and no parallel phone list. The 30-day window is the one reported for Cotogna on SevenRooms; the restaurant's own site does not state it.
We do not have a confirmed daily release hour for Cotogna, so we will not publish one. What we do have is a busy release record: 373 release events across 62 days of observation, each one availability appearing where there had been none, against 52 at Boulevard. That is a calendar in constant motion, opening and closing all day long.
This is the practical reason a Cotogna plan built on checking twice a day fails. The room is not sold out and settled; it is churning, and the openings are short. Something appears, somebody takes it, and the calendar reads empty again by the time you remember to look.
It is also the reason to read a closed calendar as temporary rather than final. A room producing that many openings does not stay walled for long.
Ask for the thing that actually opens. A Wednesday or Thursday in the afternoon, around 3:00 PM, is the combination the data supports, and a Saturday at 7:30 PM is the combination it argues against. That one substitution moves you from a 7% night to a 62% night without any extra effort.
Then widen what you will accept. Try four people as well as two, since the four-top calendar was open on 17% of dates against 20%. Take the whole week rather than one date, since the difference between your best night and your worst here is wide.
The last piece is timing, and it is the piece no person can do by hand. Cotogna's openings surface at unpredictable hours and are claimed quickly, and SevenRooms is not an app you already have open, it is the restaurant's own booking system reached through its website. We re-check Cotogna continuously and send a text or an email the moment a table appears, so a calendar this busy becomes something you hear about rather than something you miss.
We never book the table for you. SnagRes watches and tells you; you reserve it yourself, in your own name, at the restaurant's own price. Selling reservations is the practice New York's 2024 reservation law was written to stop. We take nothing for a table and we never hold one.
Aim at Wednesday or Thursday, and treat Saturday as the hardest night of the week.
Ask for the afternoon: 95% of recorded openings are before 6 PM.
Do not build your plan around 7:30 PM, since only 1% of openings are prime time.
Try four people as well as two: 17% of dates against 20%.
Let a tracker watch SevenRooms, since 373 openings have appeared at hours nobody can sit through.
Partly the platform. Cotogna books on SevenRooms, which does not have the everyday visibility of the big marketplaces and is usually reached through the restaurant's own website. 28 of the 284 restaurants we track book this way, and their openings are consistently the ones diners never see, because nobody keeps the page open.
Mostly, though, it is the shape of the availability. People check for the reservation they want, which is dinner, and dinner is the 1%. The afternoon slots go unclaimed by people who never searched for them, and a Wednesday that is often open reads as a sold-out restaurant to anyone who only ever looks at Saturday.
Every number on this page comes from our own repeated reads of Cotogna's live SevenRooms calendar, 277,363 checks so far, most recently on 19 October 2026. We track 284 restaurants across New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago, 60 of them in San Francisco, and that list is short on purpose. A service advertising 62,198 restaurants cannot tell you how far Cotogna's Wednesdays run ahead of its Saturdays, because nothing is checking any one of those rooms often enough to know. Reaching that kind of detail has taken us 61,530,416 availability checks.
Where we do not know something, this page says so. We have no confirmed release hour for Cotogna, we make no claim about its menu or its prices, and we do not tell you a night is available when our own record says it is not. What we measure is when this room has a table, and that is what the page is for.
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Cotogna 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 20% 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 277,363 checks, Cotogna has shown a bookable table for two on 20% of dates, though 68% of dates opened at some point. We have recorded 373 release events there. 1% 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.
Cotogna'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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