Four-tops open more often, on 77% of dates.
Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 170,513 checks of Z & Y through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
Book for four on OpenTable. A four-top shows on 77% of dates; a two-top has shown on 0% in 170,513 checks.
Not online, in our record. Every open table we have ever seen was for four. Book for four, or ask the restaurant directly.
OpenTable, with a calendar about a month deep.
It is the only party size that gets in online: 77% 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.
For two, it has never once been possible in our record. For four, it is one of the easier tables in Chinatown. Across 170,513 availability checks, Z & Y has shown a bookable table for two on 0% of the dates in its window and a table for four on 77%. No other room we track in either city has a gap that wide between the two answers.
The reason is how the room is laid out for booking. Large round tables are what a Sichuan dining room is built around, and they are what the online calendar releases. A pair asking for a two-top online is asking for a thing that, as far as OpenTable is concerned, does not exist here.
Open rate, party of two: 0%. Party of four: 77%.
Z & Y books on OpenTable, and its calendar runs a month deep. We have recorded 539 release events here, dates going from closed to open under our watch, which for a room that is 77% open for four means the calendar breathes constantly: four-tops come and go all month.
We do not publish a drop time for the two-top, because there has never been one to time. For four, there is no drop to wait for; the table is usually there.
Book for four. That is the entire answer, and it is a better one than it sounds: Sichuan is a cuisine built for a table of four sharing, and the room is set up for exactly that. A party of four sees an open date more than half the time on OpenTable and can book this week.
A pair who wants to stay a pair has two options the record supports. Book for four anyway and arrive as two, which restaurants generally allow and which is a question for the room, not for us. Or watch the calendar and be told if a two-top ever appears, which in 170,513 checks it has not.
Book on OpenTable for four. 77% of dates are open.
A two-top has never shown in 170,513 checks. Do not search for one.
Chinatown for two: Mister Jiu's, on Tock, is the alternative, linked below.
No, and that is deliberate. SnagRes watches Z & Y on OpenTable 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 Chinatown dining room is 77% open for four and 0% for two, because nothing is watching it closely enough to count.
Keep reading: Z & Y reservations · Mister Jiu's, the Chinatown table for two · The hardest Chinese tables in SF · Why four gets in when two cannot · How OpenTable works · How we measure availability
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Z & Y's calendar runs about 30 days deep. 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 170,513 checks, Z & Y has shown a bookable table for two on 0% of dates, though 0% of dates opened at some point. We have recorded 539 release events there. 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.
SnagRes watches Z & Y, 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: Z & Y reservations, or SF dinner reservations, live, or last-minute tables in SF tonight.