Lilia releases reservations on Resy 28 days ahead, at 10:00 AM ET. A table for two was open on 63% of dates, so booking ahead works.
Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 558,400 checks of Lilia through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
Lilia releases new dates on Resy 28 days ahead at 10 AM, New York time, and it books nowhere else. At our last check a table for two was open on 63% of the next 30 dates, but only 6% of open slots fall between 7:00 and 8:30 PM, so be on Resy at the drop for prime time or let an alert text you when a cancellation opens.
You have three realistic paths. Book at the Resy drop on the morning your date enters the window for the best shot at prime time, take an early or late seating where most of Lilia's open tables actually sit, or set an alert and let a 7:00 to 8:30 PM cancellation come to you. A two-top was open on 63% of the dates in the current 30-day window, so Lilia is more available than its reputation suggests.
Yes. Lilia takes reservations only on Resy, so there is no phone line to call and no second platform to check. New dates appear 28 days ahead at 10 AM, which is the modal release hour across 478 release events we logged on 63 separate days. If you are unsure by a day which morning your date lands, check on both.
Lilia is hard at one hour of the night and open the rest of it. A two-top was open on 63% of dates in the current 30-day window, but just 6% of the open slots we sampled fell between 7:00 and 8:30 PM. Around 41% were early and 49% were late. A table usually exists at Lilia. A 7:30 table usually does not.
Wednesday. Across our checks, 87% of Wednesdays at Lilia had a table open, against 20% of Saturdays, the hardest night of the week. Moving your dinner from Saturday to Wednesday changes your odds more than any refreshing strategy will, and it is the cheapest single thing you can do to get into this room.
Yes. A two-top was open on 19 of the next 30 dates, 63%, while a four-top was open on 10, 33%. In a small room a four-top uses a scarcer kind of table. That is the opposite of Cote, where a four-top was open on 93% of dates and a two-top on 0%, because a Korean steakhouse is built around sharing.
Often, yes, if you will take an early or a late seating. Those clear slowly because most diners want the middle of the evening, and 9:30 PM is the single most frequently open slot we record at Lilia. For a last-minute prime-time table you need a cancellation, and cancellations surface at unpredictable hours in the days before a date.
Lilia, sometimes searched as Lillia, is Missy Robbins' Italian restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, known for handmade pasta in a small converted room. It takes reservations only on Resy, 28 days ahead at 10 AM, and prime-time slots go instantly even though the calendar itself is fairly open, so take an early or late seat or set an alert for a cancellation.
No. SnagRes watches Lilia on Resy around the clock and alerts you by text or email when a table matching your request appears. We never book, hold or resell a reservation. You make the booking yourself, in your own name, on Resy, which is the difference between an alert service and a reservation broker.
For the live calendar, see Lilia availability right now, rechecked around the clock.
Lilia releases new reservation dates at 10:00 AM New York time on Resy, 28 days in advance. That hour is the modal release time across 478 release events we logged on 63 separate observation days, so it is measured rather than something a host mentioned once in passing. Lilia books on Resy and nowhere else, so there is no phone line to call and no second platform to check at 9:59.
One thing to settle before you set the alarm: restaurants and measurement tools count a booking window from opposite ends. Lilia's rolling calendar, as we read it, stops 27 days beyond today, which is the same rule a restaurant describes as 28 days in advance. If you are unsure by a day, look on both mornings. It costs nothing, and an off-by-one is a common way to miss a drop you were awake for.
Because the window rolls forward one day at a time, there is a single moment each morning when a date nobody could book yesterday becomes bookable. Be on the page by 9:55 with your party size already selected. Choosing party size after the drop is how people watch a table vanish while they are looking straight at it.
We can state that hour with a straight face because we have run 558,400 availability checks against Lilia's calendar and watched what changed between them. SnagRes follows 284 restaurants in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago rather than tens of thousands, and 61,530,416 checks spread across that short list is the reason a page about one dining room in Williamsburg can carry a number at all.
A release hour is an operating choice, not a law of physics. We re-measure it continuously, and if Lilia moves its drop, the figure on this page moves with it.
Lilia is more bookable than its reputation. A two-top was open on 63% of the dates in the current 30-day window, 19 of 30, which puts it in a different class entirely from the rooms that sit flat at zero. Most of those nights carried a real table that an ordinary person could have taken without knowing anybody.
The bigger lever is the night you choose. Wednesday is the easiest night at Lilia by a wide margin, with 87% of our Wednesday checks finding a table open. Saturday is the hardest at 20%. Same room, same pasta, same kitchen, and roughly four to one odds in your favor for moving dinner three days earlier. Almost nobody tries it, because a reputation for impossibility never arrives with a day of the week attached to it.
What 63% does not mean is that every night is easy, or that whatever hour you had in mind is sitting there waiting. It means something was bookable on 19 of 30 dates. Which seat that something turns out to be is the whole rest of this page.
Wednesday is the easiest night at Lilia, with 87% of our Wednesday checks finding an open table.
Saturday is the hardest, at 20% of checks, the lowest rate of any night of the week.
A two-top was open on 19 of the next 30 dates, or 63%.
A four-top was open on 10 of the next 30 dates, or 33%.
The reading comes from 558,400 availability checks on Lilia's calendar, not from one afternoon of looking.
Prime time is where Lilia earns its reputation. Only 6% of the open slots we have sampled fell between 7:00 and 8:30 PM, out of 3,097,996 slot samples. Roughly 41% were early and roughly 49% were late, so the availability that makes Lilia look easy is concentrated at the two ends of the night. When people say Lilia is impossible, what they mean is that the 7:30 table is impossible, and on that narrow point they are correct.
The single most frequently open slot at Lilia is 9:30 PM, and the latest slot we have ever recorded open there is 9:30 PM. The last seating is the one that reliably survives long enough for you to find it. At the other end of the evening, the earliest open slot we have logged is 4:00 PM.
None of this is a trick of the booking system. It is demand arithmetic. Everybody wants to sit down between 7:00 and 8:30, so those seats go in the first seconds after the 10:00 AM drop and return only when somebody cancels. The early and late seatings clear slowly, which is precisely why they are still sitting there when you look. Refreshing Resy for a 7:30 is a losing game while a 5:30 or a 9:30 is open in front of you.
So the useful question is not whether Lilia is hard, but which Lilia you are asking about. The late-seating Lilia is one of the easier celebrated tables in Brooklyn. The 7:30 PM Saturday Lilia is a genuinely hard reservation, and it is worth knowing which one you are chasing before you spend a week on it.
Yes, and at Lilia the penalty falls on the larger table. A two-top was open on 63% of dates and a four-top on 33%, 10 of 30. Adding two people costs you a 30-point drop in availability, which is the opposite of what several other hard New York rooms do.
Cote is the clean counterexample. A four-top there was open on 28 of 30 dates in the window while a two-top managed 0%, in a Korean steakhouse where the grilling is shared across the table. Lilia is the reverse case: in a small dining room, a four-top consumes a scarcer kind of table than a two-top does.
So the practical read depends on your party. If you are two, Lilia is among the most gettable celebrated rooms in Brooklyn and you should stop believing otherwise. If you are four, put a Wednesday in the plan instead of a Saturday, and expect the 10:00 AM drop to matter considerably more to you than it does to a couple.
Three plays work at Lilia, and the right one depends only on how attached you are to prime time. Book at the drop, 28 days ahead at 10 AM, if you want the middle of the evening. Take an early or a late seating if what you actually want is the food. Set an alert if you want prime time and are willing to wait for somebody else's change of plans.
If 7:30 is non-negotiable, the drop and the cancellation are the only two doors in the building. Cancellations arrive at no particular hour and disappear within minutes, because a freed prime-time seat at Lilia is the most wanted object on Resy in Williamsburg that afternoon. No person can refresh a page often enough to be the one who sees it.
SnagRes re-checks Lilia around the clock and texts or emails you when a table matching what you asked for appears. We do not book it for you, and we never hold, flip or resell a table. That distinction matters more than it sounds: the alert arrives, and then the reservation is made on Resy, in your own name, by you.
Be on Resy at 10:00 AM on the morning the date you want enters the 28-day window, for the best shot at 7:00 to 8:30 PM.
Move the dinner to a Wednesday, where 87% of our checks found something open.
Ask for the 9:30 PM seating, the most frequently open slot we record at Lilia.
Take an early seating instead, with 4:00 PM the earliest we have ever seen open.
Set an alert for a prime-time cancellation rather than refreshing Resy for two days straight.
If you are a party of four, plan around 33% rather than 63%, and treat the drop as the main event.
Lilia is one of the open ones. Among the New York rooms readers most often ask us to compare it with, Cote is the only other one with a real two-top figure, 0% against Lilia's 63%, while Don Angie, Semma and Tatiana read 0%, 0% and 0% for two. Lilia also opens at the hour that matters now and then: 6% of its open slots are prime time, against 0% of Cote's.
That ranking is worth holding onto, because advice that works at Tatiana is wasted at Lilia and the reverse is worse. At a zero room, the only real move is an alert and a fast thumb. At Lilia, the move is a Wednesday.
Lilia, Williamsburg, Resy, 28 days ahead at 10 AM: open on 63% of dates, with 6% of open slots at prime time.
Cote, Flatiron, Resy, 30 days ahead at 10 AM: 0% for a two-top and 93% for a four-top.
Don Angie, West Village, OpenTable, 7 days ahead: 0% of dates in 201,735 checks.
Semma, West Village, SevenRooms, 15 days ahead at 9 AM: 0% for a two-top and 0% for a four-top.
Tatiana, Lincoln Center, Resy, 28 days ahead at noon: 0% for two and 0% for four, with openings arriving almost entirely as cancellations.
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Lilia releases reservations 28 days ahead, and its calendar runs about 30 days deep in our checks. At the last check a table for two was bookable on 63% of the dates in that window, so booking a few days ahead is usually enough.
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