What time do Resy reservations drop in NYC?

It varies by restaurant. Most NYC restaurants on Resy drop at 10:00 AM ET (Carbone, Don Angie, Lilia, 4 Charles, Polo Bar, Via Carota). Some drop at 9:00 AM ET (Torrisi, Monkey Bar, Le Bernardin). Others drop at noon (Tatiana, Peter Luger) or midnight (Balthazar, Minetta Tavern). Booking windows range from 14 to 60 days in advance. TablePass tracks all of these automatically and books at the exact drop moment.

Does Torrisi release dinner reservations at the Resy drop?

No. Torrisi only releases lunch seatings and late-night tables at the morning drop. Based on extensive monitoring, dinner slots between 5:30 PM and 8:30 PM have never appeared at a Torrisi Resy drop. The only way to get a Torrisi dinner reservation is through cancellation monitoring — which TablePass handles 24/7.

Does Carbone release dinner reservations at the drop?

Carbone only releases lunch seatings and occasional late-night slots at the morning drop. Based on extensive monitoring, dinner slots between 5:30 PM and 9:00 PM have never appeared at a Carbone Resy drop. Dinner reservations at Carbone become available through cancellations, which appear at random times and require 24/7 monitoring to catch. TablePass monitors for these cancellations around the clock.

Why can't I get a Resy reservation even when I refresh at 10 AM?

Prime dinner slots at most NYC restaurants disappear within 5-10 seconds of the drop. Some restaurants like Torrisi and Carbone don't even release dinner slots at the drop — only lunch and late-night. Even with perfect timing, human reaction time (3-5 seconds to see, tap, and confirm) isn't fast enough. Automated booking services like TablePass book within milliseconds and also monitor cancellations 24/7, which is actually how most hard-to-get tables become available.

What is the best way to get a reservation at a fully booked NYC restaurant?

The most effective approach is combining automated drop booking with 24/7 cancellation monitoring through a service like TablePass. The morning drop is one chance per day with intense competition. Cancellations happen around the clock but are impossible to catch manually since they get claimed within seconds. A TablePass subscription handles both — it books at the drop and monitors for cancellations continuously, covering 100+ NYC restaurants on Resy and OpenTable.

What Actually Happens During a NYC Resy Drop (And Why Most People Fail)

Every guide about NYC restaurant reservations gives you the same advice: set your alarm, open Resy, refresh at 10 AM. Nobody explains what actually happens in those first ten seconds after the drop — and once you understand that, you'll realize why most people never had a real chance to begin with.

At TablePass, we monitor drops and cancellations across over a hundred NYC restaurants every single day. We see which slots appear, how fast they get claimed, and — this is the part that surprised even us — which restaurants don't release certain slots at all.

The First Ten Seconds

When a restaurant's new date goes live on Resy, every available slot for that day appears at once. A place like Carbone might show a handful of time slots across lunch and late night.

Then they start vanishing. Not after a minute. Not after thirty seconds. Within the first 2-3 seconds, the most desirable slots are already claimed. By the ten-second mark at competitive restaurants, anything between 7 and 9 PM is typically gone.

Think about what that means for the "set an alarm and refresh" strategy. Your reaction time alone — see the slot, tap it, confirm — eats up 3-5 seconds on a good day. In that window, the table you wanted was booked by someone (or some system) that moved faster. This is exactly why TablePass exists — it detects new slots and books within milliseconds of the drop, before human reflexes even register that a table appeared.

What Restaurants Actually Release at the Drop

This is the part nobody talks about, and it changes everything about how you should approach booking.

We track every slot that appears at every drop for the restaurants we monitor. Here's what the data actually shows:

Torrisi

Drops lunch seatings and late-night tables only. We've monitored Torrisi across a huge number of drops and have never once seen a dinner slot between 5:30 and 8:30 PM appear at the morning release. Not occasionally rare — it just doesn't happen. Prime dinner at Torrisi is managed outside of the public Resy drop entirely.

Carbone

Same pattern. Lunch and occasional late night — that's what shows up at the drop. We've tracked Carbone extensively and the data is clear: prime dinner slots between 5:30 and 9:00 PM simply don't get released at 10 AM. Carbone manages their dinner inventory separately from what goes live on Resy each morning.

Restaurants That Do Release Dinner

Don Angie, Lilia, Monkey Bar, Via Carota, Tatiana, and most other popular spots do release evening seatings at the drop. But they still disappear in seconds, which is where a TablePass subscription makes the biggest difference — the speed gap between millisecond automated booking and manual refreshing is the gap between getting the table and watching it vanish.

Drop Schedule: NYC Restaurants (2026)

Restaurant	Drop Time	Window	What Drops
Carbone	10:00 AM ET	30 days	Lunch + late night only
Torrisi	9:00 AM ET	30 days	Lunch + late night only
Don Angie	10:00 AM ET	30 days	All seatings
Monkey Bar	9:00 AM ET	20 days	All seatings
4 Charles Prime Rib	10:00 AM ET	30 days	All seatings
Lilia	10:00 AM ET	14 days	All seatings
Polo Bar	10:00 AM ET	30 days	Limited dinner
Via Carota	10:00 AM ET	14 days	All seatings
Tatiana	12:00 PM ET	14 days	All seatings
Le Bernardin	9:00 AM ET	60 days	All seatings

If Dinner Doesn't Drop, How Do People Get Dinner Tables?

Cancellations. This is the real game, and most people completely overlook it.

People cancel dinner reservations constantly — plans shift, credit cards expire, groups of four become groups of two. When that happens, the slot goes back into available inventory on Resy. But it gets reclaimed within seconds, often before anyone manually checking would even see it.

TablePass monitors for cancellations 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The moment a dinner slot opens up at Carbone, Torrisi, or any of the 100+ restaurants we cover, it books it through your account in under a second. No alarms, no obsessive checking. You set your preference once, and the system watches until it finds your table.

The smart approach — and what we'd recommend for any hard-to-book restaurant — is a TablePass subscription that covers both the morning drop and cancellation monitoring simultaneously. The drop gives you one shot per day. Cancellations give you opportunities around the clock. Combining both is how most of our successful bookings happen.

Why Most People Fail at Resy Drops

After seeing thousands of drop attempts in our data, it comes down to three things:

They're not fast enough. Human reflexes can't compete when slots vanish in 2-3 seconds. TablePass books within milliseconds.
They're chasing slots that don't exist at the drop. If you only want 7 PM Torrisi dinner, the morning alarm will never help. Cancellation monitoring through TablePass is the only realistic path.
They stop trying after the drop. The morning rush is one moment. Cancellations happen all day, every day. Ignoring them means ignoring the bigger opportunity.

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