Lazy Bear releases tickets on Tock on the 15th of the month, at 10:00 AM PT. A table for two was open on 33% of dates, so booking ahead works.
Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 1,200 checks of Lazy Bear through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
You buy a prepaid ticket on Tock, either at the 10:00 AM drop on the 15th of the month or from what comes back afterward. Lazy Bear had bookable tickets on 10 of the 30 dates in our window, 33%, and it does not serve Sundays or Mondays. Start with Thursday, the most open night in our record.
On the 15th of each month at 10:00 AM, for all dinners in the following calendar month. That is Lazy Bear's own published rule on its ticket page. We have also recorded 1 release events between drops, so returned tickets appear through the month.
Lazy Bear sells prepaid tickets on Tock, so you pay for the meal when you book. The following month goes on sale on the 15th at 10:00 AM, so for the widest choice you book on that morning, for any date in the following month. If you miss it, returned tickets keep appearing: 41% of the dates we watched showed a ticket at some point.
Yes. Lazy Bear is a tasting-menu restaurant in the Mission that sells prepaid tickets through Tock, so you buy in advance rather than reserving a table and paying at the meal. Seatings in our record run from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM, and returned tickets reappear on the listing at unpredictable hours.
With Tock ticketed dining you pay for the meal upfront and the reservation is a ticket you already own. Because the money is spent in advance, guests who cannot attend tend to put the ticket back rather than no-show, so freed seats reappear on the listing at whatever hour they were given up and go to whoever sees them first.
Moderately. It had tickets on 33% of the dates in our window for two and 27% for four, across 1,200 availability checks, and part of the gap is the Sundays and Mondays it is closed. Lazy Bear is a hard room, not a closed door.
Yes. The monthly drop on the 15th is the widest choice of dates, but we have recorded 1 release events across 1 separate days. Guests who cannot attend return their prepaid tickets and those seats reappear at random hours. An alert on the Tock listing is the reliable way to catch one.
On the SnagRes Lazy Bear page, snagres.com/restaurants/lazy-bear, which lists every date that had a ticket at the last check. A ticket for two shows on 33% of dates at any moment.
Lazy Bear tickets drop on Tock at 10:00 AM on the 15th of each month, for every dinner in the following month, and they are prepaid. A ticket for two shows on 33% of dates at any given moment, and 41% of dates show one at some point, because guests return tickets between drops. So be on Tock at 10 AM on the 15th to choose your date, or set an alert and catch a returned ticket. See Lazy Bear availability right now.
Harder than an average restaurant, easier than its reputation. On our reading of 19 October 2026, Lazy Bear had bookable tickets on 10 of the 30 dates in its Tock window, 33%, for a party of two, and on 8 for a party of four, 27%. Over the whole record, 41% of the dates we watched showed a ticket at some point.
Some of the empty dates are closing days rather than sold-out nights. We have checked the calendar 199 times on a Sunday and 182 times on a Monday, and those checks found a ticket 0 and 0 times. A flat zero on that sample is a night the room does not serve, and counting it as difficulty would make Lazy Bear look harder than it is.
The full record is 1,200 availability checks against Lazy Bear, of which 451 found something bookable, 38% of every check.
For contrast, Kiln, another San Francisco room that sells a month at a time on Tock, has been checked 1,175 times and has shown a bookable ticket on 22% of its dates, on Tock figures reset on 17 October 2026 after a measurement fix. Same city, same platform, same monthly model, and a different answer.
Ticket availability: 10 of 30 dates for two, 33%, and 27% for four, on the 19 October 2026 reading.
Dates that showed a ticket at some point: 41%.
Sunday and Monday: 0 and 0 tickets across 199 and 182 checks. Closing days, not hard days.
Sample: 1,200 availability checks on Lazy Bear.
Lazy Bear states it on its own ticket page: tickets are released monthly on the 15th of each month at 10am, for all dinners in the following calendar month. That is a published policy rather than something we inferred, and it is the one moment with the widest choice of dates.
Our own log adds something the policy does not say. We have recorded 1 release events across 1 of the days we watched it, moments when a date went from sold out to bookable. That means tickets also come back between the monthly drops. Missing the 15th does not cost you the month.
Because the release is a monthly batch, how far ahead you can book swings with the calendar: the widest view is right after the 15th, and the narrowest is just before it. On our latest reading the furthest bookable date was 29 days out.
So both moves have a point. Be there on the 15th at 10 AM if you want to choose your date. Watch for returned tickets the rest of the month if your date is already fixed.
Published drop: the 15th of each month at 10:00 AM, for the following calendar month, from Lazy Bear's own ticket page.
Measured: 1 release events across 1 observed days, so tickets also return between drops.
Furthest bookable date on our latest reading: 29 days out.
A standard reservation on Resy or OpenTable is free to hold: you give a name and a card, then pay at the end of the meal. Lazy Bear books through Tock as ticketed dining, where the meal is paid for at the moment you book and the reservation is really a ticket you already own. That changes the economics of a cancellation, and therefore what the calendar does.
Because a ticket represents money already spent, a guest who cannot make the date has an incentive to put it back rather than simply not show up. Those returned tickets reappear on the listing at whatever hour the guest gave up, and they are claimable by whoever sees them first. That is the mechanism behind the openings our checks keep finding between the monthly drops.
The seating times run from 5:00 PM at the earliest to 9:00 PM at the latest in our whole record, so there is no late-night ticket to wait for.
Tock ticketed dining charges for the meal at booking, so the reservation is a prepaid ticket.
Returned tickets reappear on the listing at unpredictable hours and go to whoever is looking.
Seatings in our record: 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM.
Among the nights it serves, Thursday is the easiest in our record and Tuesday the hardest. By weekday, a ticket for two has shown on 24% of Tuesday checks, 50% of Wednesdays, 75% of Thursdays, 69% of Fridays and 58% of Saturdays.
Party size is worth checking both ways: a table for two has shown on 33% of dates and a table for four on 27%. At Quince, for comparison, a four-top shows on 40% of dates against 40% for two.
The hour is the other thing to be flexible about. Prime time, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM, accounts for 13% of the openings we have logged, 44% come before 6 PM, and the single seating most often open is 9:00 PM.
Easiest serving night: Thursday. Hardest: Tuesday.
Tuesday 24%, Wednesday 50%, Thursday 75%, Friday 69%, Saturday 58%.
Party of two: 33% of dates. Party of four: 27%.
Most often open: 9:00 PM. Prime time: 13% of openings.
Start with Thursday, the most open serving night in our record, and ignore Sundays and Mondays entirely. That single piece of routing removes most of the frustration people report with this restaurant, and it costs nothing.
Then decide whether you can move the hour. 9:00 PM is the seating most often open on the listing, and 44% of what opens is before 6 PM. If an early seating works for you, you are shopping in the least competitive part of the calendar.
For a fixed date you cannot move, the answer is watching rather than refreshing. Prepaid tickets come back at the hour the guest gives them up, not at an hour convenient to you, and each one lasts until somebody else buys it. SnagRes watches Lazy Bear on Tock and texts or emails you the moment tickets open, including returned tickets. You buy it yourself, in your own Tock account, at the restaurant's own price.
For the widest choice of dates, buy at the 10:00 AM drop on the 15th, which puts the whole following month on sale at once.
Start with Thursday, and skip Sunday and Monday completely.
Take a 9:00 PM seating if you can, the most frequently open slot.
For a fixed date, set an alert and let it catch a returned ticket, which can surface at any hour.
We track 284 restaurants across New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago. That is the whole list, and the small number is the point. Nobody watching tens of thousands of rooms can tell you that Lazy Bear shows a ticket on 50% of Wednesday checks or that Kiln on the same platform has shown a ticket on 22% of its dates. We gave up coverage in exchange for knowing the rooms we cover.
Every figure here comes from re-checking the same calendars around the clock: 61,530,416 availability checks so far across the tracked list, of which 1,200 are Lazy Bear.
We never book or buy a table. SnagRes watches Lazy Bear and tells you the second tickets appear, then you complete the purchase yourself, under your own name, at the restaurant's own price. There is no bot holding a ticket for a stranger and nothing for sale afterward.
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Lazy Bear releases reservations 15th of month 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 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 1,200 checks, Lazy Bear has shown a bookable table for two on 33% of dates, though 41% of dates opened at some point. We have recorded 1 release events there. 13% 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.
Lazy Bear's calendar reaches 1 December on Sunday, 15 November at 10 AM, and each later date follows the same rule: 15th of month at 10 AM. Hours are local to the restaurant.
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