A table for two was open on 30% of dates, so booking ahead works.
Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 637,486 checks of Dandelion through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
Pick a Wednesday: a two-top has shown on 46% of the Wednesdays we have checked, against 30% of dates overall. For a weekend, watch the week and catch a cancellation. It books on Resy.
We have not measured a single release hour. Openings are spread through the month-long window rather than dropping at one time of day.
Wednesday, at 46% of checks for a table for two. Monday has never shown one.
5:00 PM most often, with 27% of openings in prime time and 38% at 9 PM or later.
No. SnagRes watches the calendar and alerts you by email or text the moment a table appears. You book it yourself, in your own account, at the restaurant's own price. We never hold, resell or charge per reservation.
Midweek, no. On a weekend, yes. Across 637,486 availability checks, Dandelion has shown a bookable table for two on 30% of the dates in its window and a table for four on 27%. A two-top has shown on 46% of the Wednesdays we have checked; Monday has never shown one. Over the whole record, 38% of dates opened at some point.
Dandelion is a cocktail bar with a real kitchen in the West Village, and its calendar behaves like a bar's: it runs late, it opens midweek, and it does not give much back on a Saturday.
Open rate, party of two: 30%. Party of four: 27%.
Easiest night, party of two: Wednesday, 46% of checks. Monday: 0%.
Dandelion books on Resy, with a calendar about a month deep. We have not been able to pin a single release hour from the record, so we do not publish one; the 44 release events we have recorded are spread through the window rather than clustered at one time of day, which is what a bar's calendar looks like as parties shift through the evening.
Release time: not measured; openings are spread through the window.
Across the whole evening, with a late lean. The slot we have seen open most often is 5:00 PM, but the spread is wide: 17% of recorded openings fell before 6 PM, 27% in the 7:00 to 8:30 PM window, and 38% at 9 PM or later. Openings run from 5:00 PM to 11:30 PM, the latest of any room we track in the West Village.
That prime-time share is worth noting: nearly a third of what comes back here is the hour everyone wants, which is rare among hard rooms.
Before 6 PM: 17%. Prime time: 27%. 9 PM or later: 38%.
Pick a Wednesday, and Dandelion is a table you can book this week at almost any hour. For a Friday or Saturday, watch the week and take the cancellation; with prime time nearly a third of openings, a cancellation here is often the seat you wanted. Party size makes little difference: 27% of dates for four against 30% for two.
Try Wednesday. 46% of Wednesdays have shown a two-top.
Any hour can come back; 5:00 PM most often.
For a weekend date, watch the week rather than search it.
No, and that is deliberate. SnagRes watches Dandelion on Resy around the clock and tells you the moment a table appears, by email or text. You book it yourself, in your own Resy account, at the restaurant's own price. Nothing is reserved, held or resold on your behalf, which is the line New York's 2024 reservation law draws and the line we stay on the right side of.
Because you cannot say any of the above about a directory. SnagRes tracks 284 restaurants across New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago, with 61,530,416 logged availability checks between the rooms with a full record. Nothing watching tens of thousands of restaurants can tell you that one West Village bar is 46% open on a Wednesday and gives back 27% of its tables at prime time, because nothing is watching it closely enough to count.
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Dandelion's calendar runs about 30 days deep. At the last check a table for two was bookable on 30% of the dates in that window, so book at the release for a weekend and watch the date for a weeknight.
Because the tables that exist are gone at the drop. Across 637,486 checks, Dandelion has shown a bookable table for two on 30% of dates, though 38% of dates opened at some point. We have recorded 44 release events there. 27% 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.
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