Minetta Tavern releases reservations on Resy 30 days ahead, at 12:00 AM ET. A table for two was open on 42% of dates, so booking ahead works.
Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 562,048 checks of Minetta Tavern through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
Come for lunch or late: 79% of openings are before 6 PM and 21% after 9. For a weekend 7:30, be on Resy at midnight, 30 days ahead, or watch the date. At any moment the room is 42% open for two.
At midnight, one new date each night, 30 days ahead, on Resy.
Yes. Minetta Tavern reservations are booked on Resy. SnagRes watches that calendar and alerts you when a table appears; you still book it on Resy yourself.
On the SnagRes Minetta Tavern page, snagres.com/restaurants/minetta-tavern, which lists every date that had a table at the last check. A table for two shows on 42% of dates at any moment, and 97% open at some point.
Not by searching. The 7:00 to 8:30 PM window has produced 0% of openings in 562,048 checks. It comes from the midnight drop or a cancellation alert.
Yes. 77% of dates for four against 42% for two.
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.
Minetta Tavern reservations open on Resy at midnight, 30 days ahead, one new date each night. A table for two shows on 42% of dates at any given moment, but 79% of openings come before 6 PM and only 0% fall at prime time. So lunch or a late seat is easy; for a weekend 7:30, be on Resy at midnight or set an alert for the cancellation. See Minetta Tavern availability right now.
Not for lunch, and not for a late table, which between them are most of the calendar. Across 562,048 availability checks, Minetta Tavern has shown a bookable table for two on 42% of the dates in its window and a table for four on 77%. But 79% of every opening we have recorded fell before 6 PM, across a service that starts at 11:00 AM, and the 7:00 to 8:30 PM window accounts for 0%. The Black Label burger at 1 PM is easy. The Black Label burger at 7:30 on a Saturday is what fills.
Over the whole record, 97% of dates opened at some point, and we have recorded 220 release events, one of the higher counts in the Village. A two-top has shown on 98% of Wednesdays and 46% of Saturdays.
Open rate, party of two: 42%. Party of four: 77%.
Openings before 6 PM: 79%. In prime time: 0%.
Wednesday, party of two: 98%. Saturday: 46%.
Minetta Tavern books on Resy, and a new date appears at midnight, 30 days ahead. The window rolls forward one night at a time. With most of the calendar open at any moment, the midnight drop matters mostly for a weekend prime-time table; the 220 recorded openings after that are cancellations through the month.
Release time: midnight, one new date each night, 30 days out.
Daytime and late, with nothing in the middle. Openings run from 11:00 AM to 10:30 PM, with 79% before 6 PM and 21% at 9 PM or later; the single most frequent slot is 10:30 PM. Prime time is 0%: the 7:30 has not come back once in 562,048 checks.
Before 6 PM: 79%. Prime time: 0%. 9 PM or later: 21%.
Come for lunch, or come late, and Minetta Tavern is yours this week on nearly any day; bring four if you can, 77% against 42%. For a 7:30 on a weekend, be on Resy at midnight a month ahead, or watch the date and take the cancellation; that hour is the only scarce thing here, and the record says searching for it does not work.
Book on Resy. New dates appear at midnight, 30 days out.
Come before 6 PM or after 9. 79% of openings are daytime.
Bring four. 77% of dates against 42% for two.
For weekend prime time, watch the date.
No, and that is deliberate. SnagRes watches Minetta Tavern 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 Greenwich Village tavern opens 79% of its tables before 6 PM and 0% at 7:30, because nothing is watching it closely enough to count.
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Minetta Tavern releases reservations 30 days ahead at midnight, and its calendar runs about 31 days deep in our checks. At the last check a table for two was bookable on 42% of the dates in that window, so book at the release for a weekend and watch the date for a weeknight.
Minetta Tavern's calendar reaches 1 December on Sunday, 1 November at midnight, and each later date follows the same rule: 30 days ahead at midnight. Hours are local to the restaurant.
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