What Time Does Resy Release Reservations?

Resy does not release reservations at any one time, because Resy is not the one deciding. Every restaurant on the platform configures its own booking window: a fixed number of days into the future, unlocking at an hour of its own choosing. In New York the popular convention is 10:00am Eastern, and windows most often run somewhere between two weeks and a month ahead, but that is a habit shared by many venues, not a platform rule. Sunny’s in Miami goes at noon. Mother Wolf in Los Angeles goes at 9am Pacific. Rose’s Luxury in DC skips the daily rhythm entirely and opens a whole month at once. The single reliable source for any specific restaurant is that restaurant’s own Resy page, which states its window in the need to know section. All of this is current as of September 2026, and the full anatomy of the daily unlock lives in when Resy reservations open, the 10am rush explained.

How far in advance can you book

Same fact, viewed from the calendar instead of the clock. A Resy restaurant chooses how deep its book goes, and the choice varies enormously: 7 days at Mother Wolf, 28 at Dōgon in DC, 30 at Via Carota and Carbone Miami. Because most venues run the window on a rolling basis, one fresh date enters range every single day, which is why regulars talk about “the drop” as a morning ritual rather than a monthly event. A smaller group of restaurants, mostly tasting counters and a few famous dining rooms, batch it instead and put the entire coming month up in one release. To plan a specific dinner, count backward: find the venue’s stated window, subtract it from your target date, and that morning is your alarm. The general math, including what to do when the window is longer than your patience, is in how far in advance to book a reservation.

Release times at specific restaurants

These are the release rules this site has verified venue by venue, each drawn from the restaurant’s own booking page, Resy’s published guides, or the platform’s own writing, and each linked to a full guide with the walk-in and cancellation detail. Where no hour is published, the table says so rather than inventing one. Rules change, so treat the venue’s live page as the final word.

Notice what the table actually shows. The 10am legend holds up for a chunk of the Resy list and quietly fails for the rest, and the two other platforms barely believe in a release hour at all. OpenTable rooms more often run a rolling calendar where each day becomes bookable as it comes into range, and SevenRooms venues run their own booking pages on their own terms, sometimes with no announced schedule whatsoever. The side by side of how the three systems behave is in when reservations open on Resy, SevenRooms, and OpenTable, and the broader question of opening mechanics across the whole industry is in when restaurant reservations open.

How to find the exact release time for your restaurant

For a venue not in the table, there are two honest ways to pin the time down. The first is to read the listing itself: many restaurants spell the rule out in the need to know section of their Resy page, in language like “reservations available 30 days in advance at 10am.” When the sentence exists, believe it over any blog post, including this one. The second works when nothing is published: pull up the booking calendar the day before your target date should come into range and note the last bookable day. Then watch for the moment the next day appears. Whatever hour that happens is the venue’s release time, and it will repeat tomorrow. Two cautions while you do this. Release hours are set in the restaurant’s local time zone, so a 10am unlock in Los Angeles is 1pm for a New Yorker planning a trip, and a handful of venues load the new day a few minutes late, so give the clock a quarter hour before concluding the date sold out instantly.

What happens at the release minute

The reason the exact minute matters is that the unlock is simultaneous. When a hard room’s new date goes live, it goes live for every person watching it at once, and a famous dining room might be offering a dozen prime tables against hundreds or thousands of intent buyers. The contest is usually over before the app finishes animating. Being signed in ahead of time, card saved, party size preset, date already selected, is the difference between competing and spectating, and even a perfect setup loses more often than it wins. None of this is bad luck or a broken app; it is a synchronized race with far more entrants than seats. If you want the mechanics of why a table you were literally looking at evaporated mid-tap, that is covered in why Resy tables vanish instantly.

Cancellations are the second wave

Losing the release is not the end of the story, because the release is only the first time those tables are ever offered. Every one of them is now attached to a human being whose plans have weeks to fall apart, and when a booking is given back it reappears on the public book immediately, at whatever odd hour the cancellation happened. There is no schedule and no announcement. Some venues’ fee deadlines do concentrate the churn, since people cancel right before a charge kicks in, which is why the day before service and the 24 to 48 hour mark are consistently the densest stretches. How those policies shape the timing is laid out in restaurant cancellation policies. The strategic point is that this second wave is far more winnable than the first: instead of thousands of people converging on one known minute, a single table surfaces at 11:52pm on a Tuesday in front of whoever happens to be looking. Almost nobody is looking.

Set it up once and stop watching the clock

Everything above reduces to a scheduling problem. You need to be present at one exact minute that differs per restaurant, and then intermittently present at random minutes for days afterward, and a person with a job cannot do both. This is the part worth automating. SeatSwiper watches the specific restaurant, dates, and party size you want across Resy, SevenRooms, and OpenTable, around the clock, and books the moment a matching table exists, whether that is a fresh date entering the window or a Friday someone just gave back at midnight. It books on your own account, in your own name, and it costs nothing until it actually lands you a seat: the first booking is free, then a flat $5 per successful booking. The full setup is in how SeatSwiper works. It cannot rig a synchronized race, nothing can, but it never misses a release minute and never sleeps through the second wave.