I Cavallini releases reservations on Resy 14 days ahead, at 8:00 AM ET. 49% of its dates had a table open up at some point.
Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 603,304 checks of I Cavallini through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
I Cavallini releases tables 14 days ahead at 8 AM on Resy, one new date each morning. At our last check a table for two was open on 3% of dates and a table for four on 7%, so a pair either wins the 8 AM release or catches a cancellation, most often at 9:45 PM, with a text the moment it opens.
Yes, on Resy. Across 603,304 checks, 49% of dates opened at some point, and we have recorded 259 release events, dates going from closed to open under our watch.
Come as four: a four-top shows on 7% of dates against 3% for two. As a pair, ask for 9:45 PM, try Monday or Tuesday, or watch the week and catch a cancellation.
On the SnagRes I Cavallini page, snagres.com/restaurants/i-cavallini, which lists every date that had a table at the last check. This guide explains the pattern behind those dates: a table for four shows on 7% of dates at any moment, a table for two on 3%.
Yes, by a wide margin: 7% of dates for four against 3% for two.
Monday, at 4% of checks for a table for two, then Tuesday at 4%. Saturday is 1%.
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.
I Cavallini reservations open on Resy at 8:00 AM, 14 days ahead, one new date each morning. A table for four shows on 7% of dates at any given moment and a table for two on 3%, though 49% of dates open at some point, most often at 9:45 PM. So come as four, or be on Resy at 8 AM two weeks out, or set an alert for the late two-top that comes back. See I Cavallini availability right now.
For two, yes. For four, much less so, and that gap is one of the widest of any room we track in Brooklyn. Across 603,304 availability checks, I Cavallini has shown a bookable table for two on 3% of the dates in its window and a table for four on 7%. The same room, on the same nights, with very different odds. Over the whole record, 49% of dates opened at some point.
The reason is the floor plan. A room built around larger tables holds them back and releases them later, and a pair asking for a two-top is asking for the scarcest thing it has. We have recorded 259 release events here, dates going from closed to open under our watch.
Open rate, party of two: 3%. Party of four: 7%.
Dates that opened at some point in our record: 49%.
I Cavallini books on Resy, and a new date appears 14 days ahead at 8 AM. Eight is early for a New York release, which is a small advantage: fewer people are at a desk refreshing at 8:00 than at 10:00, and the new date sits fractionally longer before its prime slots go.
The window is two weeks, so there is never a month of dates to spread demand across. The fresh date each morning takes all of the attention at once, and the cancellations across the rest of the fortnight take the rest of the seats.
Release rule: 14 days ahead at 8 AM, one new date each morning.
Late. The slot we have seen open most often is 9:45 PM, and 69% of recorded openings fell at 9 PM or later. Another 23% came before 6 PM, and the 7:00 to 8:30 PM window accounts for 7%. Openings run from 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM.
A late seating is a long Italian dinner, and the people who are happy with that are the people who eat here without a fight. The 7:30 is the one that never comes back.
Before 6 PM: 23%. Prime time: 7%. 9 PM or later: 69%.
Early in the week. A table for two has shown on 4% of the Mondays we have checked and 4% of Tuesdays, against 1% of Fridays and 1% of Saturdays. Small numbers all round for a pair. For four, every night is a different calendar.
Easiest, party of two: Monday 4%, Tuesday 4%.
Party of four: 7% of dates.
Bring two more people. That is the whole answer for most readers: a party of four sees a table on 7% of dates, a party of two on 3%. If you are a pair, ask for the late seat and try early in the week, or watch the week you want and take the cancellation, which with 259 recorded openings arrives regularly and lasts minutes.
For a specific Saturday as a pair, the 8 AM release two weeks out is the only reliable route, and it is a lottery.
Book on Resy. New dates appear 14 days ahead at 8 AM.
Come as four. 7% against 3%.
Ask for 9:45 PM. Prime time is 7% of openings.
As a pair, watch a week rather than a date.
No, and that is deliberate. SnagRes watches I Cavallini 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 Williamsburg trattoria is 7% open for four and 3% for two, because nothing is watching it closely enough to count.
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I Cavallini releases reservations 14 days ahead, and its calendar runs about 30 days deep in our checks. At the last check a table for two was bookable on 3% 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 603,304 checks, I Cavallini has shown a bookable table for two on 3% of dates, though 49% of dates opened at some point. We have recorded 259 release events there. 7% 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.
I Cavallini's calendar reaches 1 December on Tuesday, 17 November, and each later date follows the same rule: 14 days ahead. Hours are local to the restaurant.
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