Faux NYC Reservations: OpenTable, 30 Days Out, Walk-Ins

Faux is the Tribeca brasserie George McNally opened on Thursday, September 3, 2026, at 277 Church Street, between Franklin and White. McNally is 22, the son of Keith McNally, and according to Tribeca Citizen he spent the four years before this at his father’s Balthazar. The chef is Kristina Ramos, who came from Eleven Madison Park and Oxalis, and the restaurant calls the food “French coastal”: oysters, steak frites, mussels, a burger. Downstairs, behind its own door, is a separate late bar called Prevz. The name is a joke at his own expense. He told Cultured in April that opening a restaurant for the first time, “you do feel a bit like a fraud,” and that he expected a hard time, “so I thought I might as well beat them to the punch and make fun of it myself.” Search “faux reservations” and half the results are about fake hotel bookings, so to be clear: this guide is about the Church Street restaurant, on Instagram as @fauxnewyork_, and how it books as of November 2026.

Is Faux on OpenTable or Resy?

OpenTable, and only OpenTable. The restaurant’s Instagram bio links to one place, its OpenTable page. Its website, fauxny.com, was set to private when I checked on November 7, 2026, showing nothing but “This site is currently private,” so that Instagram link is the restaurant’s own word on where to book. Tribeca Citizen’s opening report puts it plainly: “Reservations are on OpenTable; walk-ins are welcome.” The Reserve button on The Infatuation’s review goes to OpenTable as well, and Quenelle, a booking service that tracks Faux, says there is no Resy page and no other site with Faux tables to sell. The phone number on the listing, per Quenelle, is (917) 227-0540.

A caveat about my own reading. Faux’s OpenTable page would not load for me on November 7 (it timed out on every attempt), so I could not read its notes, its party-size limit or its cancellation terms myself. Where something below comes from a tracker or a review rather than the restaurant, it says so.

When do Faux reservations open?

Faux does not publish a booking window or a release hour anywhere I could read. Three trackers fill the gap, and they agree on the length but not on how sure to be about the hour. AutoRes says “Faux releases reservations 30 days in advance at midnight EST. A new booking date opens every day at that time.” Reservation Wrangler, which marks its entry as verified in October 2026, says “Reservations open 30 days ahead at 12:00 AM (ET)” and gives a live example: tables for Tuesday, December 8 open on Sunday, November 8 at midnight. Quenelle’s guide of October 25, 2026 says its monitors see the calendar loaded about 30 days ahead, but that the restaurant does not publish a release time and that it has not been able to confirm one.

What I would plan on: the 30 days is solid, since all three agree, and Reservation Wrangler’s example makes the count exact (the date 30 days after today, not 29). The midnight hour is likely but has not been confirmed by the restaurant. Many OpenTable restaurants run a rolling window that adds a date as the calendar turns over, which would fit midnight; how that works in general is in when does OpenTable release reservations. You can settle it in two looks. At about 11:50pm, note the last date you can select on Faux’s OpenTable page, then look again at 12:01am. If one more date has appeared, midnight is right, and you know the hour for every booking after.

A worked example. For dinner on Saturday, December 12, 2026, count back 30 days to Thursday, November 12. If the trackers are right, that date opens at 12:00am on the Thursday, so be on OpenTable late on Wednesday, November 11, signed in. For New Year’s Eve, a Thursday this year, the same count lands on Tuesday, December 1, which means late on Monday, November 30. On that rule, the newest date bookable today, Saturday, November 7, is Monday, December 7. Friday and Saturday tables between 7pm and 9pm are the ones Quenelle says go first, so choose your second-best time before the clock turns, not after.

How hard is Faux to book?

Hard at 7:30pm on a Saturday, and less hard at most other times than the services selling bookings make it sound. AutoRes says Faux’s tables “are usually gone within seconds of release.” Quenelle’s reading is gentler: “Faux reservations aren’t impossible. They’re inconsistent.” The room is not large. Before opening, McNally told Cultured the upstairs dining room would seat 50 to 60, so a Saturday night is a few dozen tables, and two months in, a famous surname still fills them.

The most useful numbers are Quenelle’s. It says that of roughly 155 Faux dates its members have watched, a table came back on a little over a quarter of them, usually about two days before the date, and most often as a late seating between 9:45pm and 11pm on a Friday or Saturday. That fits a scene restaurant where groups book generously and give tables back once plans firm up. If you will eat late, a sold-out calendar is less final than it looks. If you need 7:30pm, book on the night the date opens.

One more thing before you build an evening around a booking: several early diners describe waiting well past their reservation time. The Infatuation’s first visit began with a table that was not ready, and Quenelle cites a Tripadvisor review from a party that waited from 8pm until after 9:30pm. Don’t book a show for straight afterwards.

Does Faux take walk-ins?

Yes. The Tribeca Citizen line above is the restaurant’s position, and Quenelle says the OpenTable listing calls Faux walk-in friendly. How long you wait depends on when you arrive. FOUND, a New York newsletter, walked in on a Wednesday “a little after 8p,” and the hostess thought a table for two “would be available in the next 40 minutes.” The Infatuation’s second visit, at 5pm, went smoothly, though its reviewer found the room “too bright” and quiet at that hour, which is the price of an easy table. So the dependable walk-in is right at the 5pm opening, any night, since the upstairs room is open seven days. Quenelle says walk-in odds fall sharply after about 7:30pm on Fridays and Saturdays, when you are competing with booked parties who are already running late. Other hard rooms where the door works are in NYC hard restaurants that take walk-ins.

Prevz, the bar downstairs

Under the dining room, in a vaulted cellar with its own entrance, is Prevz. It takes no reservations at all. The Infatuation’s review of it, from October 2, 2026, calls it “the walk-in-only spot” and says it opens at 7pm Tuesday through Saturday; Tribeca Citizen also gives the downstairs as Tuesday to Saturday, and Eater’s opening note mentions late-night food and a bouncer. Don’t plan on dinner there. The Infatuation says the restaurant’s full menu is not served downstairs, though the burger is. Its headline calls Prevz “a waiting room that might be better than the main event,” and that is the way to use it on a busy night: put your name down upstairs, then wait below. For a private party, the restaurant’s Instagram bio gives an events address, events@prevzny.com.

Hours, dress code, prices and what OpenTable may ask for

The dining room serves daily from 5pm to midnight, the hours FOUND gives (“Daily 5p-12a”) and the ones Quenelle reads on the OpenTable listing. OpenTable lists the dress code as smart casual, per Quenelle, and nothing I found asks for a jacket. Prices, from a blog review published October 1, 2026: steak frites $42, the burger with Gruyère $29, halibut $43, pesto rigatoni $26, the endive salad $22 and crispy potatoes $14. OpenTable puts Faux in its top price band, $50 and over a person, and Quenelle budgets $90 to $130 a head with drinks.

What I could not find, as of November 2026, is any cancellation fee, card hold or deposit for a standard table. None of the press or tracker coverage mentions one, and the OpenTable page, where it would appear, did not load for me. Read the booking screen before you confirm; any card terms are shown there. Party-size limits are not published in anything I could read either. AutoRes says it can book parties of 1 to 6, but that is its own limit, not necessarily the restaurant’s. Reservation Wrangler lists two seating types on the calendar, standard and bar, and I could not confirm what the bar option covers.

The room and what to order

The look is family work. Tribeca Citizen reports that Faux was designed by his father’s longtime designer, Ian McPheely, and architect, Richard Lewis, and that much of the furniture is cast-offs from his father’s places. FOUND describes a long dining room “bisected by an enormous arched entry and lined with butterscotch banquettes,” with a bar “easily three rows deep.” The Infatuation rated Faux 7.6 on October 27, 2026, under the headline “the scene is deliciously messy and the food just fine,” and argues that a night here should be “sceney, loud, and almost shamelessly sloppy.” Its picks: wedges of panisse with crisp edges and a molten center, grilled oysters under bacon jam, plump mussels in a thick bouillabaisse, the paccheri, steak frites with plenty of peppercorn, and a reliable burger. It also warns against expecting Balthazar, which opened in 1997, before the owner was born.

If Balthazar is the night you actually want, it books on Resy 30 days out, covered in Balthazar reservations. Quenelle’s pick for the food in Tribeca is Frenchette, a few blocks away on West Broadway; see how to get a reservation at Frenchette.

Watching Faux’s OpenTable calendar

A Faux table at a good hour comes down to being on its OpenTable page at one of two moments: when your date first appears, 30 days out and probably at midnight, or about two days before, when Quenelle’s record says late tables tend to come back. SeatSwiper watches Resy, SevenRooms and OpenTable, and Faux books on OpenTable, so one watch covers the release and the cancellations after it, whichever hour the release turns out to be. Set the date, the party size and the times you would take, including the late ones, and it books the table the moment one opens or someone cancels. It books on your own OpenTable 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 only works on those three platforms, it needs your OpenTable login to book in your name, it can lose a race for a single table, and it cannot put your name on the walk-in list upstairs or get you into Prevz, which takes no bookings.