A table for two was open on 33% of dates, so booking ahead works.
Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 53,451 checks of Hippo through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
Yes. Hippo books on Resy and publishes no release time.
About 13 days ahead in our checks.
9:00 p.m., according to its Resy listing.
Yes. SnagRes texts or emails you when one opens on your date. It never books, holds or resells tables.
Not far. Hippo publishes no release time, and its Resy calendar books about 13 days ahead in our checks. Dates show up late, so look as soon as yours appears.
It takes some timing, though plenty of nights open. Our reading dated 19 October 2026 found a table for two on 33% of the dates in its window, and a table for four on 33%, across 53,451 checks.
Over the same stretch, 41% of dates had a table at some point, so a full night is not always a lost one. Los Angeles joined our tracker in late September 2026, so these are early figures. We track 72 Los Angeles restaurants.
Hippo's listing says the last seating is at 9:00 p.m. The slot we see open most often is 8:45 PM, close to that last seating.
Tables run 1 hour 45 minutes for one or two guests and 2 hours for three to six.
With a short window, cancellations are the other way in. SnagRes checks Hippo's Resy calendar continuously and texts or emails you the moment a table opens for your date.
SnagRes never books, holds or resells a table. It tells you one is free, and you book it yourself on Resy.
How Hippo in Highland Park books on Resy, its short booking window and last seating, and how to catch a table that opens up.
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Hippo's calendar runs about 30 days deep. At the last check a table for two was bookable on 33% 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 53,451 checks, Hippo has shown a bookable table for two on 33% of dates, though 41% of dates opened at some point. We have recorded 18 release events there. 44% 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.
SnagRes watches Hippo, along with 283 more hard-to-book restaurants in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago, and alerts you when a table opens. Watching one is free and no card is needed: watch Hippo free.