Adda Reservations: How to Book Adda in the East Village

Adda is the Indian canteen from the team behind Semma and Dhamaka, and it now lives at 107 1st Ave in the East Village. It opened on 1st Ave in 2025, and Resy’s blog covered it in April 2025 under the headline “Adda Returns With a Reimagined Menu of Classics, Now in the East Village.” It is listed in the Michelin Guide, it is open every day from 5pm to 10pm, and it has a reputation for being hard to book that is partly earned and partly a case of people looking in the wrong place. This guide covers where the book actually lives, why nobody online agrees on when tables open (and how to settle that yourself over two mornings), what happens with a group of seven or more, and where the realistic openings are. Everything here is as of September 2026.

Where Adda’s book actually lives

Search Resy for Adda and you won’t find a table to book. The room isn’t permanently full; Adda simply doesn’t take reservations there. The reservation link on its own site, addanyc.com, sends you to SevenRooms, to a booking page the restaurant runs itself. SevenRooms is the software behind the restaurant’s own book rather than a marketplace app where diners browse, so a room on it only appears where the restaurant points you. The usual sequence goes like this: someone opens the reservation app already on their phone, types the name, gets nothing, and decides Adda can’t be booked. It probably doesn’t help that the April 2025 write-up of the East Village room ran on Resy’s own blog. Go through addanyc.com, land on the SevenRooms page, and bookmark that page rather than the homepage. The wider version of this problem, good tables sitting on a page most people never open, is the subject of SevenRooms hidden reservations.

The same site also links a Dorsia booking page at book.dorsia.com. That is a separate route, a paid members’ service, and it is not the public calendar most diners will book through. Whether it is worth paying for is a bigger question than one restaurant, and it gets a straight answer in is Dorsia worth it. For almost everyone trying to eat here, the SevenRooms page is the one that matters.

When Adda’s tables open, and why the answers disagree

This is where most advice about Adda goes wrong, because it states a booking window with a confidence the restaurant itself doesn’t. As of September 2026, Adda does not publish its window anywhere on its site, and the reservation trackers that list it contradict each other. One says tables open 7 days ahead at 9am Eastern. Another says 14 days ahead at midnight. That is not a rounding difference. One means an alarm with your coffee a week out; the other means staying up late two weeks out. They can’t both be right, and either could simply be stale.

You can settle it yourself with two short visits. First, open Adda’s SevenRooms page, set your party size, and move the date forward until the calendar stops letting you search. Count how many days out that last date is: about a week points to the first tracker, about two weeks to the second. Then check again the next day, once just after midnight and once just after 9am Eastern, and note when the next date appeared at the far end of the calendar. If it was already there after midnight, tables open overnight. If it only showed up at 9am, that is your alarm. Write the answer down; it will be more reliable than this page or any tracker, including the ones that sound certain. One trap to avoid: don’t assume Adda follows Semma’s schedule. Semma publishes its own window and Adda doesn’t, and a shared owner is no evidence that the two books are set the same way.

What the room cooks, and why people want in

The kitchen cooks regional Indian canteen classics, and the East Village opening came with what Resy’s headline called a reimagined menu of those classics. The pull on the book comes from two places. The Michelin Guide listing puts Adda on the list of visitors who plan a New York trip around the guide. And the group behind it also runs Semma, one of the harder tables in the city, so Adda is the obvious next door for anyone who wants that team’s cooking and couldn’t get into the West Village room. Neither of those needs a headline number to make a Friday at 7:30pm hard to get. It only takes more people wanting that slot than there are tables at that hour, which is the ordinary condition of a well-reviewed room on a weekend.

Groups of seven or more go through private dining

The restaurant is explicit about bigger groups: “For all reservations of 7 and more, please visit our private dining page.” So the SevenRooms calendar is the route for six and under, and anything larger is an enquiry rather than a click. Splitting a group of eight into two fours on the public calendar is a gamble, since nothing guarantees the tables sit together and the restaurant has told you where it wants that booking to go. Trackers also report a per-person deposit for larger tables. We couldn’t verify the amount, so it isn’t printed here; the SevenRooms page shows any deposit terms before you confirm, and that is the screen to read carefully, including the cancellation terms that come with it. For anything the booking page doesn’t answer, the restaurant’s email is hello@addanyc.com.

Shoulder times and weeknights

Adda opens every day, and a seven-night schedule is quietly useful. Plenty of hard rooms rest early in the week, while Adda’s Monday and Tuesday are full services on nights when most of the city isn’t trying to book anything. Within an evening the pressure usually sits in the middle, roughly 7pm to 8:30pm, when everyone’s first choice lands. The edges hold up better: a table at the 5pm opening, or a late seating toward the 10pm close, is the kind of slot that survives the first rush and the kind most likely to reappear when someone’s plans change. Two people will also find more than four, simply because more tables exist at that size. If you can move the night or the hour, do that before spending a week chasing a Saturday at 7:30pm.

Adda’s site doesn’t describe a walk-in policy, so this guide won’t promise one. If you want to try your luck in person, the 5pm opening on a weeknight is the sensible hour to ask, and the worst outcome is a polite no and the rest of the East Village a short walk away.

How cancellations come back on SevenRooms

When someone gives a table back, it returns to the same SevenRooms calendar, visible to anyone looking at that date at that moment, and it goes to whoever confirms first. There is no schedule. The general mechanics of a venue-run SevenRooms book are in how SevenRooms works. Two patterns are worth knowing. Returned tables tend to cluster close to the date, the day before and the day of, when plans firm up and people who can’t make it finally let go. And where a deposit or a cancellation cutoff applies, people have a reason to cancel before that cutoff rather than simply not turn up, so the hours just before it are worth watching. If the page offers to add you to a waitlist for a full date, joining costs nothing, though whether that option appears is the restaurant’s choice. Checking by hand a few times a day will catch some of these tables; it will miss the ones that appear and disappear between your checks.

The sister rooms while you wait

Adda belongs to Unapologetic Foods, and two of its siblings make a plan B that isn’t a downgrade. Semma, in the West Village, is the group’s most decorated room and a fight of its own. Dhamaka is the other name people know, and getting a table at Dhamaka has its own guide. They are different menus, not substitutes for each other. But if your date is fixed and Adda is full, dinner at a sister room while you keep watching Adda for another night is a reasonable way to spend it.

Putting a watch on Adda’s SevenRooms page

Everything above comes down to being on Adda’s SevenRooms calendar at the moment a table exists: the morning, or the midnight, your date comes into range, or the unannounced minute someone hands back a Thursday. SeatSwiper watches Resy, SevenRooms and OpenTable, and Adda books on SevenRooms, so it can hold your dates and party size on Adda’s own SevenRooms page and book the table the moment one opens or someone cancels. It books on your own SevenRooms account, in your name, for your own dinner; nothing is resold or transferred. You set it once and it keeps watching. The first booking is free, then it’s a flat $5, charged only when it actually books you the table, with no subscription. A cancellation watch costs $1 to start, charged when the watch begins even if no table ever opens; it isn’t covered by the free first booking and isn’t refunded, and you pay the same $5 if it wins you the table. The honest limits: it watches those three platforms only, so the Dorsia link on Adda’s site is outside it, and so is the private dining route for seven or more, which is an enquiry rather than a calendar. It needs your SevenRooms login to book for you. And it can lose a race for a single table, so it is a far more patient watcher than a person with a browser tab, not a guarantee.