True Laurel releases tickets on Tock 21 days ahead, at 10:00 AM PT. A table for two was open on 57% of dates, so booking ahead works.
Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 1,170 checks of True Laurel through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
Book a Thursday or an early seat: a two-top has shown on 75% of Thursdays and 50% of openings are before 6 PM. For weekend prime time, be on Tock at 10:00 AM, 21 days ahead, or watch the date. At any moment the room is 57% open.
Tock, with new dates at 10:00 AM, 21 days ahead.
Thursday, at 75% of checks for a table for two. Monday has never shown one.
4:15 PM most often. 50% of openings are before 6 PM, 22% in prime time and 10% at 9 PM or later.
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.
Midweek, no. On a weekend evening, somewhat. Across 1,170 availability checks, True Laurel has shown a bookable table for two on 57% of the dates in its window, and the same for a party of four. A two-top has shown on 75% of the Thursdays we have checked; Monday has never shown one. Over the whole record, 56% of dates opened at some point.
True Laurel is a cocktail bar with a serious kitchen, the sibling of Lazy Bear, and its calendar behaves like a bar's: it opens across the whole day and gives back the early and the late seats more than the middle.
Open rate, party of two: 57%. Party of four: 57%.
Easiest night, party of two: Thursday, 75% of checks. Monday: 0%.
True Laurel books on Tock, and a new date appears at 10:00 AM, 21 days ahead. The window rolls forward one day at a time. Unlike the tasting rooms on Tock, a bar's reservations are not prepaid, so the 2 release events we have recorded include a real trickle of cancellations.
Release time: 10:00 AM, one new date each morning, 21 days out.
Early, mostly. The slot we have seen open most often is 4:15 PM, and 50% of recorded openings fell before 6 PM, across a service that starts at 11:00 AM. Another 22% came in the 7:00 to 8:30 PM window and 10% at 9 PM or later. Openings run to 9:45 PM.
Before 6 PM: 50%. Prime time: 22%. 9 PM or later: 10%.
Book a Thursday or an early seat on any night, and True Laurel is yours this week. For a Friday or Saturday at 7:30, be on Tock at 10:00 AM three weeks ahead, or watch the date and take the cancellation. Party size makes no difference; two and four sit at the same 57%.
Book on Tock. New dates appear at 10:00 AM, 21 days out.
Try Thursday. 75% of Thursdays have shown a two-top.
Ask for 4:15 PM. 50% of openings are before 6 PM.
For weekend prime time, watch the date.
No, and that is deliberate. SnagRes watches True Laurel on Tock around the clock and tells you the moment a table appears, by email or text. You book it yourself, in your own account, at the restaurant's own price. Nothing is reserved, held or resold on your behalf.
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 Mission bar is 75% open on a Thursday and opens half its tables before 6 PM, because nothing is watching it closely enough to count.
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True Laurel releases reservations 21 days ahead at 10 AM, and its calendar runs about 30 days deep in our checks. At the last check a table for two was bookable on 57% of the dates in that window, so book at the release for a weekend and watch the date for a weeknight.
True Laurel's calendar reaches 1 December on Tuesday, 10 November at 10 AM, and each later date follows the same rule: 21 days ahead at 10 AM. Hours are local to the restaurant.
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