Hardest reservations in Honolulu

The Honolulu list

Restaurant	Cuisine	Area	Price	Rating
Chef Chai	Asian Fusion		$$$	★ 4.6
MW Restaurant	Hawaiian		$$$	★ 4.6
Stage Restaurant	Asian Fusion		$$$	★ 4.4
Senia	New American		$$$	★ 4.8
Nanzan Giro Giro	Kaiseki		$$$$	★ 4.8
PAI Honolulu	Hawaiian		$$$	★ 4.9
Kin Chan Sushi Inc	Sushi		$$$	★ 4.4
Sushi Sho	Sushi		$$$$	★ 4.9
Hiro No Uchi	Sushi		$$$
Sooper Secret Izakaya	Izakaya		$$$$
Sushi Gyoshin OMAKASE	Sushi		$$$
Sushi You	Sushi		$$$
Paris Hawaii	French		$$$
Omakase By Aung	Sushi		$$$
Māze	Asian Fusion		$$$$

How booking windows work in Honolulu

Almost every room on this list releases tables the same few ways: a rolling window (a set number of days out, often opening at a fixed hour), a monthly drop (the whole next month released on one morning), or prepaid ticketed seatings for tasting counters. Prime times — Friday and Saturday, 7 to 9pm — are claimed within minutes of each release.

After the release, cancellations are the only way in. Plans change, parties shrink, and tables return to Resy, OpenTable, Tock and the restaurants' own books with no announcement. Whoever sees the opening first gets it — which is a watching problem, not a refreshing problem.

Restaurant alerts are rolling out city by city

Honolulu is on the ItOpened restaurant rollout list. Join the watch now and you are in line as scanning switches on here: when a watched restaurant's cancelled table matches your party size and dates, you get a text with a direct link to book it yourself, in your own account, at the normal price. We never book, hold, or resell tables — monitoring is all we do.

Page data refreshed 2026-10-29. Venue facts come from public directory listings.