Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 61,530,416 checks across 284 restaurants through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
Find the platform and the exact release rule for the room you want, set up the account and payment method in advance, and be ready the second tables open. Then ask for the night the room actually opens: at the hard end of the list a quiet weeknight beats a Saturday, with Quince reading 57% on a Wednesday against 8% on a Saturday and Le Bernardin 95% on a Wednesday against 36% on a Saturday. For the rooms that sell out instantly, set a cancellation alert rather than refreshing, because returned tickets surface at unpredictable hours.
Not reliably. Across the 31 starred rooms we track, three-star restaurants average 55% of dates open, two-star 43% and one-star 59%. Per Se, a three-star, showed a two-top on 40% of dates, while 5 starred rooms sat at 0%: Atomix (two stars), Cote (one star), Semma (one star), The Four Horsemen (one star) and Torrisi (one star). Our New York starred rooms average 41% against 67% in San Francisco.
Benu books on SevenRooms, not Tock, and the restaurant states that reservations are released at 10:00 am each day up to 30 days in advance. Create the account, save a card, and have your date and party size chosen before the hour turns over. Aim at a Thursday, its easiest night, and check a four-top as well as a two-top: Benu read 30% for a two-top against 43% for a four-top.
Le Bernardin books on Resy and releases at 7:00 AM, with the window opening on the first of the month. It is more available than its reputation, at 61% of dates for a two-top and 74% for a four-top, but only 1% of its open slots fall between 7:00 and 8:30 PM. Its most frequently open time is 10:30 PM, and 21% of its openings come before 6 PM. Wednesday reads 95% availability and Saturday 36%, and the room is dark on Sundays.
At the last check 5 starred rooms in New York and San Francisco read 0% for a two-top: Atomix (two stars), Cote (one star), Semma (one star), The Four Horsemen (one star) and Torrisi (one star). Quince reads 40% and Benu 30%.
It varies by room and splits into daily and monthly patterns. Benu releases at 10:00 am each day 30 days ahead, State Bird Provisions at 12:00 PM Pacific exactly 30 days out on OpenTable, Cote at 10:00 AM 30 days ahead, Jungsik at 11:00 AM 30 days ahead, and Le Bernardin at 7:00 AM. The monthly rooms are different: Lazy Bear drops tickets on the 15th at 10am for the following month, while Quince, Saison and Per Se open on the first of the month prior.
All four. Of the 31 starred rooms we track, 9 book on Resy, 11 on OpenTable, 7 on Tock and 4 on SevenRooms. Le Bernardin, Cote and Jua are on Resy, Saison and Boulevard on OpenTable, Per Se, Jungsik, Lazy Bear and Ju-ni on Tock, and Benu, Quince and Semma on SevenRooms. No single app shows you the whole list.
Often. At 10 of the 31 starred rooms we track, a four-top reads at least 10 points away from a two-top. Quince showed a two-top on 40% of dates and a four-top on 40%. Cote went from 0% to 93% and Le Bernardin from 61% to 74%. It does not always run that way, though: The Progress reads 87% for a two-top and 70% for a four-top. Check both numbers before deciding who to bring.
No. SnagRes watches these restaurants across Resy, OpenTable, Tock and SevenRooms and texts or emails you the moment a table or ticket reopens. You book it yourself, in your own name, on the restaurant's own platform. We never book, hold or resell a reservation, which is the line between an alert service and a reservation broker.
Not reliably, and our own numbers say so loudly enough that it is worth leading with. We track 31 Michelin-starred restaurants in New York and San Francisco and have run 9,081,819 availability checks against their calendars. The three-star rooms average 55% of dates open, the two-star rooms 43%, and the one-star rooms 59%. The star count is a poor guide to whether you can get in.
The individual cases are starker than the averages. Per Se, three stars, showed a two-top on 40% of the next 30 dates and a four-top on 100%. Meanwhile 5 starred rooms read 0% for a two-top at the last check: Atomix (two stars), Cote (one star), Semma (one star), The Four Horsemen (one star) and Torrisi (one star). A guide award measures the cooking. Availability measures how many people want that room this month and how many seats it has, which is a completely different question.
What predicts difficulty better is the format, and to a degree the city. Tasting-menu rooms that seat two services a night have less inventory than a brasserie, and the starred New York rooms we track average 41% against 67% for the starred San Francisco ones.
All of this comes from watching a short list closely. Our 31 starred rooms sit inside 61,530,416 checks across the 284 restaurants we follow. A service advertising 62,198 restaurants cannot tell you that a specific three-star opens at 4:45 PM more often than any other hour, because nothing in a directory that size is looking at any single room that hard.
Three-star rooms average 55% of dates open, two-star 43%, one-star 59%.
Per Se, three stars: 40% of dates open for a two-top and 100% for a four-top.
5 starred rooms read 0% for a two-top at the last check.
New York starred rooms average 41% against 67% in San Francisco.
Ranked by measured availability rather than by reputation, the hard end of the Michelin list looks nothing like the list people expect. The number is the share of dates in the current 30-day window with a bookable two-top, followed by the same figure for a four-top, because at several of these rooms party size changes the answer completely.
Semma (New York, one star, SevenRooms): 0% for a two-top and 0% for a four-top.
The Four Horsemen (New York, one star, Resy): 0% and 0%, with 292 release events observed across 56 days and almost nothing left bookable.
Torrisi (New York, one star, Resy): 0% and 0%, and 43% of its open slots are 9 PM or later.
Quince (San Francisco, three stars, SevenRooms): 40% for a two-top and 40% for a four-top.
Benu (San Francisco, three stars, SevenRooms): 30% and 43%, easiest on a Thursday. It has not opened a table on Sundays, Mondays or Tuesdays in our checks, which usually means it is closed then.
Lazy Bear (San Francisco, two stars, Tock): 33% and 27%, easiest on a Thursday at 75%.
Saison (San Francisco, three stars, OpenTable): 63% and 53%, easiest on a Tuesday at 90% and hardest on a Saturday at 46%.
There is no single Michelin platform, and that is the practical reason these tables are hard to keep up with. Of the 31 starred rooms we track, 9 book on Resy, 11 on OpenTable, 7 on Tock and 4 on SevenRooms. No one app covers more than 11 of them.
Benu is the correction worth making loudly, because it is widely reported wrongly. Benu books on SevenRooms, not Tock, and the restaurant says so itself: reservations are released at 10:00 am each day up to 30 days in advance, through SevenRooms. Quince is also on SevenRooms, Saison on OpenTable, and Per Se on Tock. If you have been waiting on the wrong app at the right hour, that is why nothing appeared.
Here is where the rooms on this page live, with the release rule each restaurant publishes where we hold it in the restaurant's own words.
Le Bernardin (New York, three stars): Resy, releasing at 7:00 AM, with the window opening on the first of the month.
Per Se (New York, three stars): Tock, releasing at 10:00 AM on the first of the previous month.
Atera (New York, two stars): Tock, at 60% open, easiest on a Friday at 100% and hardest on a Thursday at 44%.
Jungsik (New York, two stars): Tock, releasing at 11:00 AM, 30 days ahead.
Cote (New York, one star): Resy, releasing at 10:00 AM, 30 days ahead, for parties up to six, per the restaurant.
Benu (San Francisco, three stars): SevenRooms, released at 10:00 am each day up to 30 days ahead, per the restaurant.
Quince (San Francisco, three stars): SevenRooms, released on the first of the month prior, per the restaurant.
Saison (San Francisco, three stars): OpenTable, released at least one month out, by the first of the month prior, per the restaurant.
Lazy Bear (San Francisco, two stars): Tock, released on the 15th of each month at 10am for the following calendar month, per the restaurant.
State Bird Provisions (San Francisco, one star): OpenTable, released at 12:00 PM Pacific exactly 30 days from your date, with seats kept for walk-ins, per the restaurant.
Gary Danko (San Francisco, one star): 70% open, with reservations available within 60 days and a card required to hold one, per the restaurant.
Ju-ni (San Francisco, one star): Tock, released at 10:00 AM on the first of the previous month.
Le Bernardin is the clearest example of why a single availability figure misleads people about a Michelin room. A two-top was open on 61% of the next 30 dates and a four-top on 74%, which sounds like a restaurant you can simply book. Then you look at the hours. Of the 756,964 open slots we have sampled there, 1% fall in the 7:00 to 8:30 PM prime window. The most frequently open time is 10:30 PM, and 78% of everything that opens is 9 PM or later.
The second door is lunch: 21% of everything that opens there is before 6 PM. A three-star lunch is a genuinely available reservation. The same room at 8 PM on a Saturday is not, and no percentage that averages those two together will tell you which one you are chasing.
The night matters almost as much as the hour. Wednesday reads 95% availability at Le Bernardin and Saturday 36%. It has not opened a table on Sundays in our checks, which usually means it is closed then. Of its 396,672 recorded openings, 87,880 landed on a Tuesday and 32,978 on a Saturday.
Per Se runs the same pattern in the opposite direction, which is the tell that this is about format rather than about one restaurant. Its most frequently open slot is 4:45 PM, out of 2,715 sampled, and 60% of its open slots are before 6 PM. A tasting-menu room fills its 7:30 PM first and sells you the edges of the evening, in both directions.
Le Bernardin: 61% of dates open for a two-top, 74% for a four-top, and 1% of open slots at prime time.
Its most frequently open slot is 10:30 PM, and 21% of its openings come before 6 PM.
Wednesday reads 95% and Saturday 36%. It has not opened a table on Sundays in our checks, which usually means it is closed then.
Per Se: most open slot 4:45 PM, with 60% of its open slots before 6 PM.
Both are more available at the edges of the evening than in the middle of it.
Booking as four rather than two changes the answer at a starred room more often than people expect, and at 10 of the 31 it moves the number by 10 points or more. Quince showed a two-top on 40% of dates and a four-top on 40%. Cote went from 0% to 93%, Le Bernardin from 61% to 74%, and Benu from 30% to 43%.
The mechanism is simple once you see it. A tasting-menu room has a fixed number of covers per seating and a table plan built around them, so a four-top is often a single table that either exists or does not, while a two-top competes with every couple in the city for the same handful of small tables. A pair is the most contested shape of request at this tier, and it is the shape almost everyone asks for.
The effect does not run one way everywhere, which is exactly why we publish both numbers. The Progress reads 87% for a two-top and 70% for a four-top, Jua 40% against 33%, and Rich Table 73% against 77%. Check the pair before you decide who to bring, rather than assuming a bigger party is always harder.
Quince: 40% for a two-top, 40% for a four-top.
Cote: 0% for a two-top, 93% for a four-top.
Le Bernardin: 61% for a two-top, 74% for a four-top.
The Progress: 87% for two against 70% for four, and Jua 40% against 33%.
Preparation beats luck, and at this tier preparation means knowing four things before the drop: the platform, the exact hour, the window shape, and the night you are going to ask for. Benu releases at 10:00 am each day up to 30 days ahead on SevenRooms, so create the account, save a card, and have your date and party size chosen before the hour turns over. Le Bernardin opens at 7:00 AM on Resy, an early hour that thins the field, but only if you are awake for it.
Then aim at the night the room actually opens rather than the night you first thought of. Benu is easiest on a Thursday at 70%. It has not opened a table on Sundays, Mondays or Tuesdays in our checks, which usually means it is closed then. Quince is easiest on a Wednesday at 57% and hardest on a Saturday at 8%. Lazy Bear is easiest on a Thursday at 75%. Saison peaks on Tuesday at 90%. A Saturday request at a three-star is the hardest version of an already hard ask.
The monthly-drop rooms need a different calendar habit entirely. Lazy Bear releases tickets on the 15th of each month at 10am for the whole following month, Quince and Saison on the first of the month prior, and Per Se at 10:00 AM on the first of the previous month. Miss the date and there is no second chance that month, which is the opposite of the daily rolling window at Benu or Cote.
Two-tops on a Friday or Saturday vanish first, so flexibility is the strongest lever you have: a weeknight, a lunch seating, an early or late sitting, or a party of four. Those are not consolation prizes at a tasting-menu room. They are the same twenty courses at a different hour.
Benu: 10:00 am daily, 30 days ahead, on SevenRooms, and aim at a Thursday.
Le Bernardin: 7:00 AM on Resy, and aim at a Wednesday, which reads 95%.
Per Se: 10:00 AM on the first of the previous month, on Tock.
Lazy Bear: the 15th of the month at 10am for the following month, on Tock.
Quince and Saison: the first of the month prior, on SevenRooms and OpenTable.
State Bird Provisions: 12:00 PM Pacific exactly 30 days out, on OpenTable, with seats kept for walk-ins.
Sold out at the drop is not the end, and at this tier it is often the beginning. Prepaid tickets and deposits get released back into the pool when plans change, and because a Benu or Per Se ticket costs real money up front, people cancel deliberately and closer to the date than they do a free reservation. Those returned seats surface at random hours, which is exactly the kind of opening no human catches by refreshing.
We can see how much of that traffic exists. At The Four Horsemen we have observed 292 release events across 56 days and at Torrisi 220 across 48, at rooms reading 0% and 0% availability for a two-top. Tables are moving at these restaurants constantly. They simply are not staying open long enough for someone checking twice a day to find one.
This is where a tracker earns its place. SnagRes watches every one of these rooms across Resy, OpenTable, Tock and SevenRooms at once and texts or emails you the moment a table or ticket reopens, so you are not guessing which of four apps to refresh. You can see every tracked New York room on our live Michelin page for New York and every San Francisco room on the live page for San Francisco.
We never book the table for you. You get the alert and a link, and the reservation ends up in your own name on the restaurant's own platform. Services that charge for the booking itself, such as the roughly 75 dollars per successful reservation TableSwap publishes on top of its subscription, attach a fee to a restaurant seat, which is the practice New York wrote its 2024 reservation law to stop. We never offer or arrange a booking, so there is nothing to resell.
The Four Horsemen: 292 release events observed across 56 days, at 0% availability.
Torrisi: 220 release events across 48 days, at 0%.
Semma: 337 release events across 58 days, at 0%.
Prepaid Tock and SevenRooms tickets return to the pool when plans change, at unpredictable hours.
One alert covers all four platforms, which is the only way to cover 31 rooms spread across them.
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