When San Francisco restaurant reservations open
Observed release times for 8 of the 11 San Francisco restaurants we watch, and how far ahead they book.
- 8 learned schedules
- Observed, local time
- What the times are
- When new dates first appeared on the booking calendar, in San Francisco time, over the last 90 days.
- Published or observed
- Observed by us. A restaurant's own stated rule can differ; its guide on Table Alert gives the published one.
Observed release times
Each row is a San Francisco restaurant where new dates appeared at a steady time, on at least three separate days.
Observed by Table Alert: the time new dates appeared on the booking calendar, local time. The pattern is learned over our full history of a restaurant (up to 16 months), so 'Releases seen' can exceed 90. A restaurant's published rule may differ; the restaurant guide says which. Restaurants we monitor in full (every party size, every date, every day).
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side a SevenRooms
- New dates appear
- 12:05 AM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 14 days
- Releases seen
- 63
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Maria Isabel OpenTable
- New dates appear
- 7:00 AM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 30 days
- Releases seen
- 47
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Lazy Bear Tock
- New dates appear
- 9:55 AM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 44 days
- Releases seen
- 5
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Benu SevenRooms, Tock
- New dates appear
- 10:05 AM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 30 days
- Releases seen
- 64
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Quince SevenRooms
- New dates appear
- 11:00 AM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 55 days
- Releases seen
- 11
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The Happy Crane OpenTable
- New dates appear
- 12:00 PM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 30 days
- Releases seen
- 74
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Four Kings OpenTable
- New dates appear
- 1:00 PM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 21 days
- Releases seen
- 52
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Friends Only Tock
- New dates appear
- 7:00 PM
- How often
- every day
- How far ahead
- 45 days
- Releases seen
- 29
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 times
We see a new date when one of our checks does, so the real release is at or shortly before the time shown. Be on the booking page a few minutes early.
As far as we have seen, every restaurant in the table adds a new date each day, so there is a release to catch every day. Times differ widely, as of November 11, 2026: Maria Isabel around 7:00 AM, Benu around 10:05 AM, Atelier Crenn around midnight.
How far ahead tells you which date to aim for: the newest date, the one at the far end of the calendar, is the one that just appeared.
Restaurants not in the table
Californios, Restaurant Naides and Fù Huì Huá have no steady time in our data: their tables appear at no fixed time. For them an alert is more reliable than a clock.
A restaurant also stays out of the table until we have seen at least three releases, so a new or irregular schedule can be missing.
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FAQ
When San Francisco restaurant reservations open: questions people ask
It differs by restaurant. Among those with a steady pattern we observe times from the early morning, such as around 7:00 AM, to midnight, and one in the evening. The table lists each one.
No. They are the times we observed new dates appearing on the public calendar. The restaurant's own published rule, if it has one, is on its guide page and may differ from what we saw.
Either its tables appear at no fixed time in our data, or we have not yet seen three releases. Alerts suit these better than a clock.
The table's how-far-ahead column shows how many days out the calendar reached when we last read it. It runs from about two weeks at some restaurants to two months or more at others.
We check each calendar around the clock and note when a new date first appears. A time that repeats on at least three days becomes the restaurant's observed schedule, shown in local time.
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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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