A table for two was open on 100% of dates, so booking ahead works.
Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 656,990 checks of Shinzo Omakase through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
Book it on Resy. A seat for two has shown on 100% of dates across 656,990 checks, at lunch and at every evening sitting.
No. It has been open on every date we have checked, for two and for four.
5:00 PM most often, with 32% of openings in prime time and 35% at lunch.
No. SnagRes watches the calendar and alerts you by email or text the moment a seat appears. You book it yourself, in your own account, at the restaurant's own price. We never hold, resell or charge per reservation.
No. Across 656,990 availability checks, Shinzo Omakase has shown a bookable seat for two on 100% of the dates in its window, and the same for a party of four, on every night of the week. Every date we have ever watched was open. Among the omakase counters we track in New York it is the one you can sit at tonight.
Open rate, party of two: 100%. Party of four: 100%.
Dates that opened at some point: 100%.
Shinzo Omakase books on Resy, with a calendar about a month deep, and with every date open there is nothing to time. Openings run from 2:00 PM to 9:15 PM: 35% before 6 PM, across a lunch service, 32% in the 7:00 to 8:30 PM window and 17% at 9 PM or later. The seating we have seen open most often is 5:00 PM.
Most often open: 5:00 PM. Prime time: 32% of openings.
Open Resy and book it, at lunch or at any evening sitting, on any night. If a specific sitting ever shows full, watch the date; it will come back.
Book on Resy. Every date is open.
Lunch, 5:00 PM and prime time all come back.
No, and that is deliberate. SnagRes watches Shinzo Omakase on Resy around the clock and tells you the moment a seat 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 which East Village omakase has been open on every date we checked, because nothing is watching it closely enough to count.
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Shinzo Omakase's calendar runs about 31 days deep. At the last check a table for two was bookable on 100% of the dates in that window, so booking a few days ahead is usually enough.
SnagRes watches Shinzo Omakase, 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: watch Shinzo free, or NYC dinner reservations, live, or last-minute tables in NYC tonight.