The hardest reservations in San Francisco, ranked by data
The 11 of 11 San Francisco restaurants we watch with enough data, ranked by how rarely a table opens and how fast.
- 11 SF restaurants ranked
- Last 90 days, refreshed nightly
- How this is ranked
- By days in the last 90 on which any table opened, fewest first; ties go to the faster-vanishing table.
- How much of San Francisco
- Only the 11 of the 11 San Francisco restaurants we watch that have enough data, not the whole city.
- Hardest on our data
- Californios: a table on 38 of the last 90 days, as of November 11, 2026.
The ranking
Fewest days with an open table first. A restaurant near the top had a bookable table on only a few of the last 90 days.
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).
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1
Fù Huì Huá 馥薈華 Tock
- Bookable time
- 8.2 days
- Share of the time
- 9.1%
- Days with a table
- 10
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2
Californios OpenTable
- Bookable time
- 10.4 days
- Share of the time
- 12%
- Typical table lasts
- about 5 minutes
- Days with a table
- 38
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3
Restaurant Naides Tock
- Bookable time
- 47.7 days
- Share of the time
- 53%
- Typical table lasts
- about 1.6 hours
- Days with a table
- 65
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4
Maria Isabel OpenTable
- Bookable time
- 66.6 days
- Share of the time
- 74%
- Typical table lasts
- about 1.3 hours
- Days with a table
- 83
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5
Four Kings OpenTable
- Bookable time
- 85.5 days
- Share of the time
- 95%
- Typical table lasts
- about 1.3 hours
- Days with a table
- 89
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6
Quince SevenRooms
- Bookable time
- 89.9 days
- Share of the time
- 100%
- Typical table lasts
- about 17 hours
- Days with a table
- 90
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7
Benu SevenRooms, Tock
- Bookable time
- 90.0 days
- Share of the time
- 100%
- Typical table lasts
- about 6 hours
- Days with a table
- 90
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8
side a SevenRooms
- Bookable time
- 90.0 days
- Share of the time
- 100%
- Typical table lasts
- about 15 hours
- Days with a table
- 90
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9
Lazy Bear Tock
- Bookable time
- 90.0 days
- Share of the time
- 100%
- Typical table lasts
- about 15 hours
- Days with a table
- 86
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10
Friends Only Tock
- Bookable time
- 90.0 days
- Share of the time
- 100%
- Typical table lasts
- about 24 hours
- Days with a table
- 85
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11
The Happy Crane OpenTable
- Bookable time
- 90.0 days
- Share of the time
- 100%
- Typical table lasts
- about 25 hours
- Days with a table
- 90
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
In San Francisco the day count alone says little. Most restaurants here add a new date every day, so some table sits on the calendar on nearly every day. The column that separates them is how long the typical table lasts.
Take the most watched. Californios had a table on 38 of the 90 days to November 11, 2026, the typical one lasting about 5 minutes. Benu had one on all 90 days, but the typical table lasted about 6 hours.
Fù Huì Huá is the most watched of all, with 10 people on it. It has too few openings measured to rank or time, as of November 11, 2026.
What to do with it
A table with minutes of life, as at Californios, needs an alert. A table with hours of life, as at Benu, rewards knowing when new dates appear: see the release times page for the observed times.
Where a restaurant has a guide, it states the published booking rule.
What is measured, and what is not
We check each restaurant's public booking calendar around the clock. We count the days on which any table appeared, and how long the typical table stayed bookable before it was taken.
A day with a table does not mean a table for your date or party size. We do not know a restaurant's intent, and we cannot see tables it never puts on the public calendar. Only restaurants whose monitoring we can vouch for are included.
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As of November 11, 2026, Californios: a table on 38 of the last 90 days, the fewest, and it is gone in minutes. Fù Huì Huá, the most watched, has too few openings measured to rank or time. The table ranks the 11 of the 11 restaurants we watch that have enough data.
By the number of days in the last 90 on which any table appeared on the restaurant's public booking calendar. Fewer days is harder. Ties are broken by how fast the typical table was taken.
Because many add a new date daily, so a table is nearly always on the calendar. What makes it hard is that the typical table lasts hours at most places, so the lasting-time column matters more.
We watch 11 in San Francisco. The ranking needs a day count, so the 11 with enough clean monitoring appear. This is a small sample of the city, not a census.
Every night. The window always covers the most recent 90 days, and the page shows the date its numbers run through: November 11, 2026. A restaurant's rank can move as old days drop out of the window.
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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. The monitoring numbers are Table Alert's own, refreshed every night (latest: November 11, 2026). Out of date? Tell us.
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