I Sodi releases reservations on Resy 13 days ahead, at 10:00 AM ET. 24% of its dates had a table open up at some point.
Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 632,316 checks of I Sodi through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
I Sodi releases tables on Resy only, 13 days ahead at 10 AM, one new date each morning. At our last check a table for two was open on 0% of the next 30 dates and a four-top on 3%, so beyond the release itself the seats come back as cancellations, and an alert is how you catch one.
One of two ways: take the 10 AM release thirteen days ahead of the date you want, or catch a cancellation. When we last read the calendar it showed a bookable two-top on 0 of the next 30 dates, so in practice nearly every catchable seat is one another guest gave up at an unpredictable hour.
Yes, and only on Resy. There is no separate phone line or second platform holding back inventory, so Resy is where the 10 AM release lands and where a cancelled table reappears. We have recorded 115 release events there across 51 days of watching.
Yes, it is one of the hardest rooms we track. A two-top could book on 0 of the 30 dates in the window, and across 632,316 checks a Saturday date came back open 326 times out of 90,682. A table does open here, but almost never for long enough for someone searching by hand to find it.
Early. 98% of the 11,180 open slots we have recorded at I Sodi fell before 6 PM, and 4:30 PM is the most frequently open time. Only 2% were 9 PM or later. These are the times left open when we looked, not the restaurant's service hours.
Rarely. 0% of the 11,180 open slots we have logged at I Sodi fell in the 7:00 to 8:30 PM prime window. If prime time is the requirement, a cancellation alert is the only realistic route, and even then the early seatings are far more likely to surface.
Marginally, yes, which surprises most people. I Sodi showed a bookable table on 3% of the next 30 dates for a party of four and 0% for a party of two. A larger party is not automatically a harder booking, because a room holds different table shapes and the four-tops are not always the first to go.
No. SnagRes watches I Sodi on Resy and tells you the moment a table opens, then you book it yourself in your own name at the restaurant's own price. We never hold a reservation, never resell one, and never book under someone else's name.
For the live calendar, see I Sodi availability right now, rechecked around the clock.
I Sodi sits in the hardest tier we measure. When we last read its Resy calendar, on 19 October 2026, a two-top could book on 0 of the 30 dates in the window, and a party of four on 1. That is not a reputation or a vibe: we have checked I Sodi's calendar 632,316 times, and the room has almost never held a table long enough for an ordinary person to find it.
Rita Sodi's Tuscan dining room sits in the West Village, a sister restaurant to Via Carota, and it takes reservations on Resy and nowhere else. There is no second platform to try, and no phone list that changes the arithmetic. A reading of 0% does not mean nobody eats there. It means the calendar you are looking at is empty essentially every time you look at it.
The weekday pattern says the same thing from another angle. Across every check we have made, a Saturday date came back with something open 326 times out of 90,682, about 0%. Tuesday is among the loosest nights at 2% of checks, Monday at 2%, and Friday at 1%. Those are the odds that a single look finds anything at all, at any hour of service, on any date in the window.
Set that beside the other rooms in this cluster and the scale is clear. At the same reading Adda showed a table for two on 7% of dates, Dhamaka on 23%, and Le Bernardin on 61%. I Sodi sat at 0%, the floor of our list, where 39 of the 284 restaurants we track had every two-top taken.
Nearly every open table we have recorded at I Sodi was an early one. We have logged 11,180 open slots there, and 98% fell before 6 PM, from 11:30 AM onward. The 7:00 to 8:30 PM prime window accounts for 0% of them, and 9 PM or later for 2%.
The distribution inside that range is narrow too. 4:30 PM is the single most frequently open time, and the late-afternoon seatings around it carry most of the availability in our records, with lunch making up much of the rest.
This is the part a ranking of hard restaurants cannot tell you, and it should change what you ask for. If you want an 8 PM table at I Sodi, you are asking for something that almost never surfaces. If you will take 4:30 PM, you are aiming at the time this room most often gives up, which is a completely different bet with the same reservation at the end of it.
One caveat worth stating plainly, because it is easy to misread: these are the times left open when we looked, not the restaurant's service hours. At a room this tight the two are close to opposites. An afternoon slot shows up in our data precisely because a prime-time table never survives long enough for us to record it.
I Sodi runs a rolling window on Resy, 13 days ahead at 10 AM. That is one fresh date each morning rather than a monthly batch, and the date that joins the calendar is the one that sits at the far edge of the window.
We have recorded 115 release events at I Sodi across 51 of the days we watched it, which is how we know the edge moves, how often it moves, and roughly when. It is also why the window reads 0% rather than blank. Dates do open here. They are claimed inside the time it takes a person to notice that they opened.
Practically, that gives you one scheduled chance per date: 10 AM, thirteen days ahead of the night you want. Miss it and that date is closed until a guest gives up a seat. Because Resy mostly moves on a rolling daily window rather than a monthly drop, this is the normal shape for a hard New York restaurant, and it is the reason most catchable tables in this city are cancellations rather than releases.
There are two paths, and at I Sodi the second one carries almost all of the traffic. The first is the 10 AM release thirteen days out, with your Resy account already signed in and your party size chosen before the hour turns. The second is a cancellation, which is where nearly every catchable seat at a room this tight comes from.
Cancellations do not arrive on a clock. They surface when a guest's plans change, at whatever hour that happens to be, and a freed seat belongs to whoever sees it first. At a room where a Saturday check comes back open about 0% of the time, the distance between a table appearing and a table being gone is measured in seconds. No person refreshes Resy every few minutes for thirteen straight days, which is the whole reason an alert exists.
A four-top is worth asking for even if you are two. I Sodi showed a bookable table on 3% of dates for a party of four against 0% for a party of two, so the larger table was, narrowly, the looser one. That inversion turns up often enough across the list that it is worth knowing before you assume a bigger party is a harder ask.
And be honest with yourself about the hour. The reader who says any early table in the next two weeks will do has a real chance at I Sodi. The reader who wants 8 PM on a Saturday is asking for something this restaurant almost never releases.
Take the 10 AM release thirteen days ahead of your date, signed in, party size already set, before the hour turns.
Ask for the late afternoon: 98% of every open slot we have recorded here fell before 6 PM, and 4:30 PM is the most common.
Do not build a plan around prime time, because 0% of our 11,180 recorded open slots fell between 7:00 and 8:30 PM.
Try a Monday or Tuesday before a Friday or Saturday, since Tuesday checks came back open at 2% against Saturday's 0%.
Let an alert watch the room, because the seat you get will be one somebody else gave up at an hour you were not watching.
Everything above comes from checking one small restaurant 632,316 times. SnagRes watches 284 rooms across New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago, which is a short list on purpose, and 61,530,416 availability checks sit behind the set as a whole. A service listing tens of thousands of restaurants cannot tell you which afternoon seatings carry I Sodi's open tables, because that fact only exists if you check the same room every few minutes for months.
We also never book. SnagRes sends you an alert and you complete the reservation on Resy yourself, in your own name, at the restaurant's own price. That separation matters more around a room like this one than almost anywhere else, because the market that grows up beside an empty calendar includes services that sell the reservation itself, the practice New York's 2024 reservation law was written to stop. We hold nothing, resell nothing, and put no booking in a stranger's name.
What we sell is timing, and timing is worth most exactly where the calendar reads zero. There is no clever search that beats being told the moment a table appears, and there is nothing to be told about unless something is still watching at three in the afternoon on a Tuesday in the middle of the thirteen-day window.
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I Sodi releases reservations 13 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 632,316 checks, I Sodi has shown a bookable table for two on 0% of dates, though 24% of dates opened at some point. We have recorded 115 release events there. 0% 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 Sodi's calendar reaches 1 December on Wednesday, 18 November, and each later date follows the same rule: 13 days ahead. Hours are local to the restaurant.
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