A table for two was open on 40% of dates, so booking ahead works.
Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 1,327 checks of Ox + Tiger through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
Book a Saturday on Tock: a two-top has shown on 50% of the Saturdays we have checked, against 40% of dates overall. For another night, watch it; cancellations are rare.
Tock, with a calendar about a month deep.
Saturday, at 50% of checks for a table for two. Tuesday is 0%.
9:00 PM most often, but openings are spread evenly: 29% before 6 PM, 20% in prime time, 51% 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.
It depends entirely on the day, more than at any room we track in San Francisco. Across 1,327 availability checks, Ox + Tiger has shown a bookable table for two on 40% of the dates in its window, and the same for a party of four. But on the Saturdays we have checked, a two-top showed 50% of the time. On Tuesdays, 0%. The overall number is an average of a wide-open day and closed ones.
We have recorded only 2 release events here, and 44% of dates opened at some point, barely above the random-moment figure. This is a Tock room, and Tock calendars fill and stay filled: what you see is close to what there is.
Open rate, party of two: 40%. Party of four: 47%.
Saturday, party of two: 50% of checks. Tuesday: 0%.
Ox + Tiger books on Tock, with a calendar about a month deep. We have not measured a single release hour from the record, so we do not publish one. What the record shows is a calendar that opens in blocks by day rather than a daily drop with a drip of cancellations behind it.
Evenly across the evening, which is rare. The slot we have seen open most often is 9:00 PM, and the openings split almost into thirds: 29% before 6 PM, 20% in the 7:00 to 8:30 PM window, 51% at 9 PM or later. Openings run from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM. When this room is open, it is open at the hour you wanted.
Before 6 PM: 29%. Prime time: 20%. 9 PM or later: 51%.
Book a Saturday on Tock. That is the whole answer for most readers: a two-top has shown on 50% of the Saturdays we have checked, at a normal dinner hour. For another night, let something watch it; cancellations are rare enough here that a person cannot catch one by hand. Party size makes no difference, two and four sit at the same 40%.
Try Saturday. 50% of Saturdays have shown a two-top.
Any hour works when it opens; prime time is 20% of openings.
No, and that is deliberate. SnagRes watches Ox + Tiger 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 Tenderloin room is 50% open on a Saturday and 0% on a Tuesday, because nothing is watching it closely enough to count.
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Ox + Tiger's calendar runs about 30 days deep. At the last check a table for two was bookable on 40% of the dates in that window, so book at the release for a weekend and watch the date for a weeknight.
SnagRes watches Ox + Tiger, 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: Ox + Tiger reservations, or SF dinner reservations, live, or last-minute tables in SF tonight.