Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 61,530,416 checks across 284 restaurants through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
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Resy restaurants almost never open their calendar all at once. The common setup is a rolling window: a restaurant books 30 days out, and every night one new day appears at the far edge. A smaller group releases in batches, dropping a week or a month of prime dates at a fixed time. And underneath both patterns runs a constant trickle of cancellations, which is where most bookable tables actually come from.
That mix is why refreshing manually rarely works. The rolling edge arrives at a predictable hour, but the cancellations that free up a Saturday two weeks out arrive whenever someone changes their plans. We track 72 Resy restaurants and see releases at every hour of the day, with no single hour holding more than about a sixth of a given restaurant's activity.
When new availability appears at a restaurant you have starred, you get an email naming the restaurant, the dates that opened, and a link straight to its Resy page. Plus members also get the exact time slots, so you know whether it is a 5:45pm or an 8:30pm before you click through.
Which dates opened, not just that something changed.
Exact time slots on Plus; availability status on free.
A direct link to the restaurant on Resy so booking is one tap.
Filtered to your party size, and to date ranges or evenings if you set them.
Resy is the dominant platform in New York and a smaller player in San Francisco. Of the 284 restaurants SnagRes monitors, 72 book through Resy: 60 in New York and 12 in San Francisco. That includes most of the New York tables people describe as impossible, among them Carbone, Torrisi, Lilia, Le Bernardin, Don Angie, Semma, and Tatiana.
Coverage is a fixed list rather than the whole platform. We track the restaurants that are genuinely hard to book, because those are the ones where being told the moment a table opens changes the outcome. If a restaurant you want is missing, you can suggest it from the tracker.
Resy has a built-in waitlist called Notify. It is free, it is official, and it is worth using alongside anything else. Its limits are structural: you join per restaurant per date, you are in a queue with everyone else who joined, and you find out when Resy decides to tell you.
A tracker watches the calendar itself rather than joining a queue, so an alert fires on any new availability at your restaurant, including dates you never explicitly asked about. Using both is reasonable. Notify costs nothing and occasionally lands a table; the tracker is what catches the drop you were not watching for.
A free account lets you star one restaurant and be emailed the moment it opens up. There is no card required, and the tracker itself is free to browse without an account at all. Plus raises the cap to 30 restaurants, adds the exact released times, and extends the visible calendar from 14 days to 30.
How Resy release windows and cancellations work, and how to get alerted the moment new availability appears at hard-to-book restaurants in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago.
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New York City (56): Carbone, Via Carota, I Sodi, L'Artusi, Buvette, Lilia, Tatiana by Kwame Onwuachi, Torrisi, Le Bernardin, Jua, Golden Diner, Thai Diner, Kisa, Forsythia, Sami & Susu, Ha's Snack Bar, Bistrot Ha, Theodora, The Polo Bar, I Cavallini, Monkey Bar, Cote, Au Cheval, Bungalow, The Ambassadors Clubhouse, Penny, Claud, The Four Horsemen, Minetta Tavern, Jeju Noodle Bar, and 26 more.
San Francisco (10): 7 Adams, Flour + Water, Gary Danko, Izakaya Rintaro, Jilli, Liholiho Yacht Club, Nari, Penny Roma, Prik Hom, Folklore.
Los Angeles (53): Jon & Vinny's, Little Dom's, Everson Royce Bar, Lasita, Rustic Canyon, Kismet, Checker Hall, All Time, Hippo, Hatchet Hall, Camphor, Dudley Market, Great White, Damian, Crudo e Nudo, Cobi's, Mother Wolf, N/Soto, Jilli LA, Funke, Sushi Nakazawa, Mírate, Tonchin, Pizzana, Bar Funke, Donna's, Xuntos, Alba, Si! Mon, A Tí, and 23 more.
Chicago (50): Monteverde Restaurant & Pastificio, Trivoli Tavern, Gilt Bar, Armitage Alehouse, Beatnik on the River, The Warbler, Coda di Volpe, Galit, Giant, Ciccio Mio, Gemini, The Village at the Italian Village, Le Sud, Ascione Bistro, Mi Tocaya Antojería, Bistro Campagne, Maxwells Trading, Chef's Special Cocktail Bar, The Duck Inn, Longman & Eagle, Petit Pomeroy, HaiSous Vietnamese Kitchen, Sophia Steak Chicago, Dimmi Dimmi, Union - Logan Square, Lardon, Omakase Yume, Au Cheval - Chicago, Pingpong, Cafe Yaya, and 20 more.
Across the 74 Resy restaurants SnagRes has confirmed a drop time for, 21 release at 9:00 AM, with a typical window of 21 days ahead. Resy lets each restaurant set its own schedule, so the platform does not have one release time.
Of the 169 Resy restaurants SnagRes tracks, an average of 57% of the booking window is open at any check. The tightest is Carbone, at 0%.
Yes. Star a restaurant and SnagRes emails you when availability appears. A free account watches two restaurants; Plus removes the limit and shows exact slot times. SnagRes alerts you rather than booking for you, so you keep control of which table you take.