A table for two was open on 67% of dates, so booking ahead works.
Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 591,990 checks of Sami & Susu through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
Book it on Resy: a table for two has shown on 67% of dates, on weeknights alike. For Saturday prime time, watch the date.
We have not measured a single release hour. Two dates in three are open at any moment.
Thursday, at 68% of checks for a table for two, though the spread by night is narrow.
9:30 PM most often, with 39% of openings at 9 PM or later and 29% in prime time.
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.
Not very. Across 591,990 availability checks, Sami & Susu has shown a bookable table for two on 67% of the dates in its window and a table for four on 60%. A two-top has shown on 68% of the Thursdays we have checked and 53% of Wednesdays, a narrow spread. Over the whole record, 73% of dates opened at some point, and we have recorded 61 release events.
Open rate, party of two: 67%. Party of four: 60%.
Thursday, party of two: 68%. Wednesday: 53%.
Sami & Susu books on Resy, with a calendar about a month deep. We have not measured a single release hour from the record, so we do not publish one; with two dates in three open at any moment, the release matters mostly for prime time on a weekend.
Late, with a real prime-time share. The slot we have seen open most often is 9:30 PM, 39% of recorded openings fell at 9 PM or later, 29% in the 7:00 to 8:30 PM window, and 13% before 6 PM. Openings run from 5:30 PM to 10:45 PM.
Before 6 PM: 13%. Prime time: 29%. 9 PM or later: 39%.
Open Resy and book it; on a weeknight it is yours this week at nearly any hour. For a Saturday at 7:30, watch the date and take the cancellation. Party size makes little difference: 60% of dates for four against 67% for two.
Any weeknight works; the spread by night is narrow.
Ask for 9:30 PM; nearly a third of openings are prime time.
For Saturday prime time, watch the date.
No, and that is deliberate. SnagRes watches Sami & Susu 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 Lower East Side room is as open on a Thursday as a Wednesday and gives back 29% of its tables at prime time, because nothing is watching it closely enough to count.
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Sami & Susu's calendar runs about 30 days deep. At the last check a table for two was bookable on 67% of the dates in that window, so booking a few days ahead is usually enough.
SnagRes watches Sami & Susu, 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: Sami & Susu reservations, or NYC dinner reservations, live, or last-minute tables in NYC tonight.