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How to Get a Restaurant Reservation in NYC - The New York Times

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By Priya Krishna, Umi Syam and Aliza Aufrichtig Illustrations by Nick Little. Photographs by Lisa Corson. Oct. 23, 2023 Welcome to Semma, a South Indian restaurant that’s one of the hardest-to-get-into places in New York City. Reservations open up at midnight, a whole month ahead of time. Can you click below fast enough to grab a table? Sorry! They’re all booked up. But your name is on the waiting list. Stay tuned for alerts. Why does it seem so hard to get a table these days in New York, and so many other places? With the approach of the holiday season, the busiest time for restaurants, we set out to find answers — and ways to improve our chances — by focusing on a single night at a single place: Semma, which has been packed since it opened two years ago in Greenwich Village. Semma let us review a month’s worth of reservation data leading up to a recent Thursday night, Sept. 14. Then we asked the people who scored those tables how they did it. Strategy? Connections? Dumb luck? To get

Welcome to Semma , a South Indian restaurant that’s one of the hardest-to-get-into places in New York City. Reservations open up at midnight, a whole month ahead of time. Can you click below fast enough to grab a table? 5:00 5:15 5:30 7:00 7:15 7:30 9:00 9:15 9:30 Sorry! They’re all booked up. But your name is on the waiting list. Stay tuned for alerts. Why does it seem so hard to get a table these days in New York, and so many other places? With the approach of the holiday season, the busiest time for restaurants, we set out to find answers — and ways to improve our chances — by focusing on a

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