Start free , or look at the live San Francisco tracker first.

, paras: [ `OpenTable behaves differently from Resy, and the difference matters if you are waiting on a table. Most OpenTable restaurants publish a long booking window, often 60 to 90 days, so the far edge of the calendar is rarely the interesting part. What changes hour to hour is the near term: tables inside the next two weeks appearing and vanishing as people cancel and rebook.`, `That makes OpenTable a cancellation game rather than a drop game. There is usually no dramatic moment when a month of dates appears. Instead a Friday at 7pm that was gone this morning is available for eleven minutes this afternoon, and whoever is looking at that moment gets it.`, ], }, { heading:

, paras: [ `Because the openings are short-lived and unscheduled, manual checking performs badly. You would have to guess the minute. A tracker inverts that: it watches continuously and tells you when the table exists, which is the only moment the information is worth anything.`, ], bullets: [ `Alerts name the dates that opened and link straight to the restaurant on OpenTable.`, `Plus members see the exact times, so a 6pm and a 9pm are distinguishable before clicking.`, `Filters keep it quiet: party size, date range, and evenings-only if that is all you want.`, `At most one email per restaurant per hour, so a busy restaurant cannot flood you.`, ], }, { heading:

, paras: [ `SnagRes monitors 34 OpenTable restaurants: 23 in San Francisco and 11 in New York. That split says something real about the two cities. San Francisco

s, where Resy dominates. If you are hunting in SF, OpenTable coverage is not optional.`, `As with every platform we cover, the list is curated rather than exhaustive. We track restaurants where availability is genuinely scarce, because that is where knowing first changes anything.`, ], }, { heading:

, paras: [ `Browsing live availability is free and needs no account. A free account adds alerts on two starred restaurants. Plus, at $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year, raises that to 20 restaurants, shows the exact released times rather than just a status, and extends the calendar view from 14 days to 30.`, ], }, ] export default function AlertsOpenTable() { useSeo({ title:

Real-time OpenTable availability alerts for 34 hard-to-book restaurants in San Francisco and New York. Why OpenTable is a cancellation game, and how to be told the moment a table frees up. Free account, no card.

How OpenTable availability changes through cancellations rather than scheduled drops, and how to get alerted the instant a table opens in SF or NYC.

, }) return ( <ArticleShell eyebrow="OpenTable" title="OpenTable alerts, the moment someone cancels" standfirst="SnagRes watches 34 hard-to-book OpenTable restaurants, most of them in San Francisco, and emails you when a table frees up. OpenTable openings are short-lived, which is exactly why alerts beat refreshing." next={[ { to: