SnagRes tracks 15 hard-to-book Mission and Castro restaurants in real time, including Flour + Water, Izakaya Rintaro, Jilli. Availability is checked continuously across Resy, OpenTable, Tock, and SevenRooms, and you can get a text the moment a table opens.
Platform split here: 5 on Tock, 5 on OpenTable, 4 on Resy, 1 on SevenRooms. That matters because each platform releases tables differently, and watching only one of them leaves the rest of this list invisible.
1 of these had 10% or less of the booking window open at the last check: Fu Hui Hua.
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Covers Castro, Dogpatch and Mission.
The restaurants tracked here cover Italian, Japanese, American, Chinese, Cocktail Bar, Californian. Cuisine pages span both cities, so they are the better starting point when the food matters more than the location.
Nob Hill and North Beach (9), Hayes Valley and Fillmore (7), Marina and Presidio Heights (6), SoMa (6), Downtown SF (4), Fillmore (4), Jackson Square (4), Chinatown (3). Widening the search by a neighbourhood or two is usually the cheapest way to turn a fully booked night into an available one.
Across the 15 Mission and Castro restaurants SnagRes tracks in SF, an average of 66% of the bookable window is open at any given check. The tightest is Fu Hui Hua at 10%. Anything under about 10% means tables are effectively gone the moment they are released, so an alert matters more than refreshing.
Of the 13 with a confirmed drop time, 5 release at 10:00 AM, and the typical booking window is 29 days ahead. Release times are set per restaurant rather than per platform, so two places on the same platform can drop hours apart. The full table is on the release times page.
Of the 15, 5 book on Tock, 5 on OpenTable, 4 on Resy, 1 on SevenRooms. Each platform releases tables on its own schedule, so watching only one leaves the rest of this list invisible. SnagRes checks all four continuously.
Yes. Star any restaurant on this page and SnagRes emails you when a table opens. A free account covers two restaurants; Plus removes the limit, extends the window from 14 to 30 days and shows exact slot times. SnagRes alerts you, it does not book on your behalf.