The hardest reservations in New York, ranked by data
Not opinions: restaurants we watch around the clock, ranked by how rarely a table opens. Atomix first, with a table on 17 of 90 days.
- Restaurants with 10+ watchers ranked
- Last 90 days, refreshed nightly
- How this is ranked
- Fewest days with any open table comes first; ties go to the restaurant whose table was taken fastest.
- Number one
- As of November 11, 2026, Atomix leads: a table on 17 of 90 days, typically gone in about 45 seconds.
- What counts
- Only restaurants whose monitoring we vouch for and that at least 10 people are watching on Table Alert.
- Hard has two meanings
- A table that opens rarely is hard. So is one gone in minutes, daily. The table shows both.
The ranking
Fewest days with an open table first. A restaurant near the top opened a table on only a handful of the last 90 days; one at 90 opened a table every day, which is not the same as being easy.
Ranked by bookable time: the share of the last 90 days during which at least one table, for any date and any party size, was open on the public calendar. Least first; ties by how fast the typical table went. Restaurants we monitor in full (every party size, every date, every day) with 10+ people watching.
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1
4 Charles Prime Rib Resy
- Bookable time
- 20 min
- Share of the time
- under 0.1%
- Days with a table
- 12
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2
Ambassadors Clubhouse New York Resy
- Bookable time
- 3.9 h
- Share of the time
- 0.18%
- Typical table lasts
- about 41 seconds
- Days with a table
- 30
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3
Una Pizza Napoletana OpenTable
- Bookable time
- 10.9 h
- Share of the time
- 0.51%
- Typical table lasts
- under 45 seconds
- Days with a table
- 59
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4
Atomix Tock
- Bookable time
- 35.1 h
- Share of the time
- 1.6%
- Typical table lasts
- about 45 seconds
- Days with a table
- 17
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5
The Corner Store DoorDash
- Bookable time
- 3.6 days
- Share of the time
- 4.1%
- Typical table lasts
- about 2 minutes
- Days with a table
- 76
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6
Or’esh DoorDash
- Bookable time
- 4.9 days
- Share of the time
- 5.5%
- Typical table lasts
- about 2 minutes
- Days with a table
- 81
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7
Lucali NY Resy
- Bookable time
- 5.9 days
- Share of the time
- 6.5%
- Days with a table
- 19
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8
The Eighty Six DoorDash
- Bookable time
- 10.6 days
- Share of the time
- 12%
- Typical table lasts
- about 2 minutes
- Days with a table
- 85
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9
TATIANA, By Kwame Onwuachi Resy
- Bookable time
- 18.2 days
- Share of the time
- 20%
- Typical table lasts
- under 7 minutes
- Days with a table
- 90
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10
Bungalow Resy
- Bookable time
- 39.7 days
- Share of the time
- 44%
- Typical table lasts
- about 10 minutes
- Days with a table
- 90
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11
Sip & Guzzle SevenRooms
- Bookable time
- 45.9 days
- Share of the time
- 51%
- Typical table lasts
- about 1.4 hours
- Days with a table
- 48
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12
Torrisi Resy
- Bookable time
- 46.4 days
- Share of the time
- 52%
- Typical table lasts
- about 3 minutes
- Days with a table
- 90
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13
Ha's Snack Bar Resy
- Bookable time
- 49.7 days
- Share of the time
- 55%
- Typical table lasts
- about 20 minutes
- Days with a table
- 90
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14
Jeju Noodle Bar Resy
- Bookable time
- 50.8 days
- Share of the time
- 56%
- Typical table lasts
- about 45 minutes
- Days with a table
- 90
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15
I Sodi Resy
- Bookable time
- 57.3 days
- Share of the time
- 64%
- Typical table lasts
- about 26 minutes
- Days with a table
- 90
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16
Carbone Resy
- Bookable time
- 78.2 days
- Share of the time
- 87%
- Typical table lasts
- about 8 minutes
- Days with a table
- 90
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17
The Coop at Double Chicken Please Resy
- Bookable time
- 80.6 days
- Share of the time
- 90%
- Typical table lasts
- about 1.6 hours
- Days with a table
- 90
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18
Don Angie OpenTable
- Bookable time
- 84.0 days
- Share of the time
- 93%
- Typical table lasts
- about 20 minutes
- Days with a table
- 90
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19
Overstory Resy
- Bookable time
- 86.2 days
- Share of the time
- 96%
- Typical table lasts
- about 4 hours
- Days with a table
- 87
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20
Theodora Resy
- Bookable time
- 86.7 days
- Share of the time
- 96%
- Typical table lasts
- about 55 minutes
- Days with a table
- 90
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21
I Cavallini Resy
- Bookable time
- 88.3 days
- Share of the time
- 98%
- Typical table lasts
- about 30 minutes
- Days with a table
- 90
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22
Semma SevenRooms
- Bookable time
- 89.1 days
- Share of the time
- 99%
- Typical table lasts
- about 25 minutes
- Days with a table
- 90
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23
Monkey Bar Resy
- Bookable time
- 89.7 days
- Share of the time
- 100%
- Typical table lasts
- about 35 minutes
- Days with a table
- 90
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24
Via Carota Resy
- Bookable time
- 89.9 days
- Share of the time
- 100%
- Typical table lasts
- about 30 minutes
- Days with a table
- 90
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25
COQODAQ Resy
- Bookable time
- 90.0 days
- Share of the time
- 100%
- Typical table lasts
- about 1.9 hours
- Days with a table
- 90
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26
Penny Resy
- Bookable time
- 90.0 days
- Share of the time
- 100%
- Typical table lasts
- about 1.6 hours
- Days with a table
- 90
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27
Bangkok Supper Club Resy
- Bookable time
- 90.0 days
- Share of the time
- 100%
- Typical table lasts
- about 1.9 hours
- Days with a table
- 90
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28
Pizza Studio Tamaki SevenRooms
- Bookable time
- 90.0 days
- Share of the time
- 100%
- Typical table lasts
- about 32 minutes
- Days with a table
- 90
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29
Adda SevenRooms
- Bookable time
- 90.0 days
- Share of the time
- 100%
- Typical table lasts
- about 22 minutes
- Days with a table
- 90
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30
Sushi Sho Tock
- Bookable time
- 90.0 days
- Share of the time
- 100%
- Typical table lasts
- about 27 minutes
- Days with a table
- 63
Proprietary data: Table Alert checks each restaurant's public booking calendar around the clock; these figures cover the last 90 days, through November 11, 2026, vouched restaurants only, and are refreshed every night.
How to read the table
Four columns carry the story. Read them together, because no single one decides how hard a restaurant is.
- Books on: the platform where the table appeared. The restaurant's guide links the booking page.
- Days with a table: days on which at least one table appeared on the public calendar, out of the last 90.
- Typical table lasts: how long the typical table stayed bookable before it was taken. Seconds means you must already be on the page.
- Dates open ahead: how far into the future the calendar runs, as we last saw it.
Two kinds of hard
Some restaurants release rarely and everything goes at once. Others show a table most days, but only for moments. They need different tactics.
Monthly drop: Atomix's bar tasting page says it releases its month's reservations in full. As of November 11, 2026 it opened a table on 17 of 90 days, and the typical table was gone in about 45 seconds.
Mostly outside a release: Ambassadors Clubhouse opened a table on 30 days, nearly all of them outside any regular release, gone in about 41 seconds.
Fast: Una Pizza Napoletana showed a table on 59 days, typically gone in under 45 seconds. Carbone showed one on all 90 days, but the typical table lasted about 8 minutes.
For a rare release, the lever is being on the page at the drop. For a daily trickle, the lever is hearing about it the second it appears. The release times page lists when each restaurant's new dates arrive.
What this does not tell you
We count tables that appeared on a restaurant's public booking calendar. We do not know why a restaurant released or held a table, and we cannot see tables kept for regulars, sold by phone or offered only on another channel.
A restaurant with few open days may simply release less often, not be more popular. A restaurant with a table on every day may still be nearly impossible if the table lasts seconds.
Restaurants that lack enough clean monitoring days, or that fewer than 10 people watch, are left out of the ranking rather than ranked on thin data.
What to do with it
- Open the restaurant's guide from the table. It states the published booking rule where the restaurant gives one.
- If the days figure is low, find out when the next release is and be on the booking page before it.
- If the days figure is high and the table lasts minutes, set an alert so you hear about a table when it appears.
- Be flexible on the day and time: openings are more likely at some seatings than others, and the best time to book page shows which.
How we measure it
Table Alert checks each restaurant's public booking calendar around the clock. An opening is a table that appeared and was later taken. We count the days on which at least one appeared and how long the typical one stayed bookable. An opening outside the regular release is how a cancellation looks in our data; we cannot see why a table appeared. The figures cover the last 90 days through November 11, 2026 and are rebuilt every night.
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FAQ
The hardest reservations in New York, ranked by data: questions people ask
Yes. Every number comes from Table Alert's own monitoring of the restaurants' public booking calendars over the last 90 days, refreshed every night. No editorial opinion decides the order. Where a restaurant publishes a booking rule, its guide states it.
As of November 11, 2026, Atomix comes first: a table opened on 17 of 90 days and the typical table was gone in about 45 seconds. The table above shows who is next. Rare release is one kind of hard; a table gone in minutes is another.
No. It means a table appeared on every one of the 90 days. If the typical table lasts a few minutes, as at Carbone, you still need to be on the page or alerted when it appears.
It may be watched by fewer than 10 people on Table Alert, not yet have enough clean monitoring days, or book through a channel we cannot read. We rank only where the data is solid.
Nightly. The figures cover the last 90 days through November 11, 2026, so a restaurant moves up or down as old days drop out of the window and new ones are added.
No. We only see what a restaurant puts on its public booking calendar. Tables held for regulars, sold by phone or offered on another channel never appear in our numbers.
On their own platform, at a time each restaurant chooses. Most New York restaurants in our list add one new date a day; a few release a month at once. See the release times page.
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Sources and how this page is made
Written by Jacob, founder of Table Alert. Facts checked against the sources below on November 12, 2026 and re-checked every night, last on . The monitoring numbers are Table Alert's own, refreshed every night (latest: November 11, 2026). Out of date? Tell us.
- Table Alert monitoring (proprietary)
- Atomix: Bar Tasting (a month released in full)
- Ambassadors Clubhouse New York: FAQs
- Resy Help Desk: Booking Window
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