Amex Global Dining Access by Resy: Cards, Tables and Resy Credits

Global Dining Access by Resy is the dining program American Express attaches to its top cards, and it lives entirely inside Resy. Add an eligible card to your Resy profile and you get three things, in the words of Resy’s program terms: “(a) access to exclusive reservations, (b) Priority Notify ... and (c) access to exclusive events,” plus a badge on your Resy profile that restaurants can see. The exclusive reservations are the part that matters: primetime tables a participating restaurant holds back for members.

The Resy dining credit is a separate benefit that people often confuse with it. The Platinum Card has both. The Gold Card has a Resy credit but no Global Dining Access. Below: which cards qualify, what each part does, the phone route, how the Platinum and Gold credits work, and where the program stops. Checked November 7, 2026. This site has no affiliation with American Express or Resy; facts come from their own pages and from dated coverage, each named where it is used.

Which Amex cards get Global Dining Access?

The terms on Resy’s site (updated October 30, 2023) list the eligible accounts: the Platinum Card and Centurion Card, the Business Platinum and Business Centurion, the Corporate Platinum and Corporate Centurion, the Delta SkyMiles Reserve and Delta SkyMiles Reserve Business cards, the Hilton Honors Aspire, and the Platinum cards issued for Morgan Stanley, Charles Schwab and Goldman Sachs, plus the Goldman Sachs Centurion. Additional Card Members on those accounts are included, and the terms warn that the program “may not be available for Cards issued from some countries.” Amex’s own consumer guide, updated July 17, 2026, sums the consumer side up as “Available to Platinum, Hilton Honors Aspire, and Delta SkyMiles Reserve Card Members.”

The Gold Card is the common surprise. Amex’s Credit Intel FAQ lists the Gold among the cards with a Resy credit, then names only the Platinum, Hilton Aspire and Delta Reserve as the cards that offer Global Dining Access. A Gold card on your Resy profile earns the credit; it does not show you held tables. For scale on cost, Amex lists the Platinum annual fee at $895 and the Gold at $325 (both read November 7, 2026).

What you get: tables, alerts, events

Exclusive reservations. When the program launched on July 1, 2021, Resy’s release described them as “Primetime tables held at sought-after restaurants, exclusively for Global Dining Access members. Look for the purple reservation slots, only visible to members.” Amex’s 2026 guide tells members to book exclusive tables marked “Global Dining Access by Resy.” The collection opened with “More than 100 of Resy’s most popular restaurants,” including Carbone, Via Carota and Le Bernardin in New York. I found no current published count; Resy keeps the list as a directory at resy.com/global-dining-access. Amex’s guide names New York, Los Angeles and Philadelphia plus Copenhagen, Lima and Modena, while The Points Guy’s October 2026 guide lists restaurants in the U.S., Italy and Peru. The terms add two rules worth knowing: “Reservations are based on a first-come, first-served basis,” and the restaurant’s own cancellation policy applies.

Priority Notify. This is the alert half. Resy’s terms describe it as letting members “set notifications to be in the first group notified when tables become available before they are made available to other Resy users.” Resy has not published how long that head start lasts, and the alert still has to be turned into a booking by hand, so it changes when you hear about a cancellation rather than whether you win it. The full mechanics, and why it still loses at the hardest rooms, are in Resy Priority Notify.

Special events. The terms promise “access to exclusive events,” and the 2021 release described member tickets to chef dinners and culinary experiences plus pre-sale access to other Resy events. Amex’s September 18, 2025 Platinum refresh restated the package as “nightly tables at in-demand restaurants around the country, early access to Resy events, and Priority Notify.” The terms say there is “no cost to you for booking services through GDA,” and that its reservations and events “cannot be resold or used for commercial purposes.”

Platinum Nights: the Platinum-only layer

The same September 2025 refresh added Platinum Nights by Resy for consumer and business Platinum members only: “reservations on dedicated Platinum Nights at some of Resy’s most coveted restaurants in New York, Los Angeles and Miami,” booked at resy.com/platinum and in the Resy iOS app. The 2025 New York list included Lilia, L’Artusi, Claud, COTE, Coqodaq, Bungalow and Tatiana, and Miami included Carbone, with more nights and cities promised for 2026. Amex’s Platinum page now describes it as “sought after reservations at participating top Resy restaurants on select nights in select cities.” The ordinary routes into those rooms are in our guides to Tatiana reservations, Lilia reservations and L’Artusi reservations.

How to use it, and is there a phone number?

Add the eligible card to your Resy account in the Resy app or on Resy.com; the terms say that if you are issued a new card number you must update it there too. Then browse as normal and look for the member slots. There is no separate Global Dining Access phone line in anything I read. The phone route is Amex Concierge: the terms say GDA reservations are accessible through the Resy app and website “and Concierge,” and that “Some features of GDA, like Priority Notify, may not be available through Concierge.” Amex’s card page gives the number to use: “Simply call the number on the back of your Card, select or say ‘Concierge’ when prompted.” The Points Guy (October 2026) adds that members can call the Amex concierge to get the benefit set up.

How the Platinum and Gold Resy credits work

• Platinum: up to $400 a year. In Amex’s words, “up to $100 in statement credits each quarter after you use the Platinum Card to make eligible purchases with Resy, including dining purchases at over 10,000 qualifying U.S. Resy restaurants. Enrollment required.” Resy’s September 2025 release lists it under the U.S. Consumer Platinum only.
• Gold: up to $100 a year. “That’s up to $50 in statement credits from January through June and up to $50 in statement credits from July through December. Enrollment required.”
• Delta SkyMiles Reserve: up to $240 a year, as up to $20 a month at qualifying U.S. Resy restaurants, per Amex’s 2026 guide.

To use it, enroll the card through your Amex account, then pay with it at a qualifying U.S. Resy restaurant. Which restaurants qualify used to be guesswork; since August 1, 2026, per Upgraded Points, the Resy app and website show an indicator on restaurants eligible for the credit, which is the closest thing to an official restaurant list. Amex’s FAQ says a credit “could take up to 8 weeks” to post, and excludes Resy restaurant software, Resy-branded Amex gift cards and gift cards bought at restaurants. One honest conflict: the same Amex FAQ describes eligible purchases as those at partnering restaurants “that you book through the Resy app or Resy.com,” while Upgraded Points (October 30, 2026) and Thrifty Traveler (August 31, 2026) both report the credit posts without a Resy booking. Booking through Resy is the safe reading. The Resy network behind the credit is also growing, because Amex has been moving Tock restaurants onto Resy, as covered in what happens to Tock reservations.

What Global Dining Access does not do

It does not make a full restaurant bookable for you. The held tables are a small pool that every other linked member sees at the same moment, and when they are gone the page looks as sold out to you as to anyone. The terms say American Express and Resy “make no representations or warranties regarding the availability of reservations.” They also say what happens to unclaimed member tables: “Generally, same-day reservations that are not booked by GDA members are released back to restaurants at certain times of day that vary across restaurant policies.” If the restaurant then puts a table on its public Resy book, it appears like any other opening.

It is Resy only, so it is silent at the OpenTable and SevenRooms rooms on our list of the hardest restaurants to book in NYC. Chase runs the same idea on OpenTable, covered in Sapphire Reserve Exclusive Tables; Capital One’s version stopped taking new bookings in September 2026, covered in Capital One Dining reservations. The three side by side are in credit card reservation perks compared. Where Global Dining Access clearly wins is the held inventory itself: tables nobody without an eligible card can book at all.

Where SeatSwiper fits

Resy is one of the three platforms SeatSwiper books on, with SevenRooms and OpenTable. It is not affiliated with American Express or Resy and makes no claim on the member slots; the card is the only way into those. What it watches is the ordinary public book. You set the restaurant, dates, party size and time range once, and it books the table the moment one opens or someone cancels, without waiting for you to see an alert, which is the gap described in reservation alerts vs auto-booking. It books on your own Resy account, in your name, for your own dinner, and nothing is resold or transferred. It can’t get your account banned, because it books on your own account and checks every few minutes, never nonstop. The first booking is free. After that it is a flat $5, charged only when it actually books the table, with no subscription. A cancellation watch on a date that is already full costs $1 to start, charged when the watch begins even if no table ever opens; that $1 is not covered by the free first booking and is not refunded, and the same $5 applies if the watch wins you the table.

The honest limits: it works only on Resy, SevenRooms and OpenTable, it needs your Resy login to book in your name, and it can lose a race for a single table. If you hold an eligible Amex, keep using the member slots and the credit; a watch covers the public book they leave alone. The release timing that governs that book is in what time Resy releases reservations.