Theodora releases reservations on Resy 30 days ahead, at 9:00 AM ET. 97% of its dates had a table open up at some point.
Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 613,758 checks of Theodora through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
“Reservations are available via Resy 30 days in advance at 9 am.”
Watch the week you want and take the cancellation: 97% of dates in our record opened at some point, across 479 recorded release events. For a specific date, be on Resy at 9:00 AM, 30 days ahead.
At 9:00 AM, one new date each morning, 30 days ahead, on Resy.
9:30 PM opens more than any other slot, and 58% of openings are at 9 PM or later. Another 37% are before 6 PM. Prime time is 4%.
Monday to Wednesday, at about 3% of checks for a table for two, against 1% on Saturdays.
Yes. Four-tops show on 20% of dates against 0% 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.
Hard to find, not hard to get, and those are different problems. Across 613,758 availability checks, Theodora has shown a bookable table for two on 0% of the dates in its window and a table for four on 20%. Yet 97% of the dates we have ever watched here opened at some point before they filled: three dates in four. Almost every night at Theodora becomes available at some moment. The moment is short.
We have logged 479 release events here, dates going from closed to open under our watch, which is among the highest counts of any room we track in Brooklyn. This is a calendar with constant movement, and a person checking it by hand at a random time sees the 0% and concludes there is nothing. The record says otherwise.
Open rate at a random moment, party of two: 0%. Party of four: 20%.
Dates that opened at some point in our record: 97%.
Theodora books on Resy, and a new date appears at 9:00 AM, 30 days ahead. The window rolls forward a day at a time, so each morning one fresh date joins the far end of the calendar. Fort Greene is a neighborhood of regulars, and the 9 AM drop for a Friday four weeks out goes quickly to people who have the habit.
The release is not the interesting part of this calendar. With 479 recorded openings, the cancellations are. A month's notice gives plans time to change, and when they do the table comes back for minutes at an hour nobody chooses to sit and refresh.
Release time: 9:00 AM, one new date each morning, 30 days out.
Most openings are cancellations, not the morning drop.
Late, or early, and almost never in between. The slot we have seen open most often is 9:30 PM, and 58% of recorded openings fell at 9 PM or later. Another 37% came before 6 PM. The 7:00 to 8:30 PM window accounts for 4%, which is the pattern at nearly every good room: the hour everyone wants is the hour that never comes back.
Recorded openings run from 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM. If you would take 5:30 or 9:30, this room is far more open to you than its headline number says.
Range: 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM.
Before 6 PM: 37%. Prime time: 4%. 9 PM or later: 58%.
Early in the week, by a little. A table for two has shown on 3% of Mondays, 3% of Tuesdays and 3% of Wednesdays we have checked, against 1% of Fridays and 1% of Saturdays. Every one of those is a small number; the useful reading is that Friday and Saturday are the nights to give up on searching and rely on an alert.
A party of four does better than a pair here, 20% of dates against 0%, which is the usual shape at a room that holds its larger tables back.
Easiest, party of two: Monday to Wednesday at about 3%.
Party of four: 20%, better than two.
Watch the week you want and let the cancellation come to you. That is not a consolation strategy here; it is the main one. With 97% of dates opening at some point and 479 recorded openings, a person who is told the second a table appears gets a Theodora table. A person who checks Resy twice a day does not.
For a specific Saturday, be on Resy before 9:00 AM exactly 30 days ahead with your card saved, and ask for a later seating: 9:30 PM is the slot that exists.
Book on Resy. New dates appear at 9:00 AM, 30 days out.
Watch it rather than search it. Three dates in four open at some point.
Ask for 9:30 PM or before 6 PM. Prime time is 4% of openings.
No, and that is deliberate. SnagRes watches Theodora 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 Fort Greene room opens 97% of its dates and almost never at 7:30, because nothing is watching it closely enough to count.
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Theodora releases reservations 30 days ahead, and its calendar runs about 30 days deep in our checks. At the last check a table for two was bookable on 0% of the dates in that window, so the release itself is the one real chance, and the rest come back as cancellations.
Because the tables that exist are gone at the drop. Across 613,758 checks, Theodora has shown a bookable table for two on 0% of dates, though 97% of dates opened at some point. We have recorded 479 release events there. 4% of the openings we have seen were between 7:00 and 8:30 PM. The seats you can actually get are the ones that come back when someone cancels, which is why an alert on the date beats refreshing.
Theodora's calendar reaches 1 December on Sunday, 1 November, and each later date follows the same rule: 30 days ahead. Hours are local to the restaurant.
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