Balthazar
The SoHo brasserie that never stopped being the hardest easy table in New York.
Balthazar · hours vary by night
- The host is expecting you. A confirmed table, held for your party.
- Card authorized, charged only on confirmation. Never before.
- Refund window: 24 hours before service. After that, non-refundable.
Why Balthazar is hard to book
Keith McNally's Spring Street brasserie has been full since 1997. It seats hundreds and still turns thousands away, because the prime evening tables are spoken for the moment they open. Balthazar releases its book 30 days out at 9am, and the 7 to 9pm window for two disappears in the time it takes to pour a coffee.
We are on the 9am release the second it lands, for your exact date and party size, and we keep watching the cancellations after, because a room this size always moves. You tell us the night. We secure the table in your name.
How we work this room.
Pay when we get you in.
Your card is authorized when you submit the request. We charge it only when we confirm your table. No confirmation, no charge. Ever.
Authorize, do not captureThe host is expecting you.
You walk in to Balthazar and the table is yours, held for your party at your time.
Confirmed for your partyOne posted price.
$375 for non-members. $100 for members. One number, every night, every party size. No auctions, no surge, no Friday markup. Whatever the room is doing, the price does not move.
No auctions. No surge.Five steps, start to seated.
You ask.
Tell us the night, the time window, the party size. Two minutes on this page. Card on file, not charged.
We confirm the request.
An operator reviews the request, checks the room, and sends a confirmation that we are working it. Usually within thirty minutes.
We work the room.
We reach the floor manager directly, by phone or by text, depending on the night. We do not refresh Resy. We make a call.
You are confirmed.
We charge the card and send your confirmation — the time and the name to give the host.
You eat.
Walk into Balthazar, give your name at the host stand, sit down. The room takes it from there. We do not see you again until the next request.
French brasserie, New York, Tier II.
Tonight, tomorrow,
or three months out.
We work this restaurant every day. You pay only when we confirm your table.