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How to get a reservation at The Butcher's Block

The first trick is looking in the right place. This restaurant’s live tables are on SevenRooms, where dinner inventory actually moves.

Live bookSevenRooms
Book opensRolling, ~30 days
Listed elsewhere as“No online booking”

What the data says

  • A baseline sweep on November 2 found 40 bookable dinner slots between November 6 and November 28 for a party of two.
  • Two new Saturday slots for November 7, at 5:30 PM and 5:45 PM, surfaced in the middle of the day on November 2.
  • How December inventory is released is still being measured. We are not going to call it rolling or a tranche until the book itself answers.

The short version: Use SevenRooms, expect a rolling book of roughly 30 days, and treat Friday and Saturday additions as events that can happen well after breakfast.

How to play it

  1. Start with the live SevenRooms book, not an OpenTable listing that has the restaurant mapped incorrectly.
  2. For Friday and Saturday, set an alert: new tables and cancellations can surface midday, not only at a release time.
  3. For less contested dates, check the live book first. This room has genuine moving dinner inventory.
The Playbook

The Butcher's Block Playbook

Everything below is measured by our tracker or taken from the venue's own listing. Where the sample is thin, the row says so.

Drop time

No single drop, and we won't invent one. The book rolls, and new tables surface through the day — on November 2, a Saturday pair (5:30 and 5:45 PM) appeared at midday.

How far out

About a month — our probes bracket the book's edge at roughly 32 days (bracketed by probes, not read to the day).

Seatings we see

On open days, the whole window: 5:00 to 7:45 PM at quarter-hour marks — 10 prime seatings counted on November 4, and 182 across the 12 days the tracker reads.

Placement

Unmeasured, by construction: SevenRooms returns no section labels in its data (its blocks are shifts — lunch and dinner). We record that as unmeasured instead of guessing at the room.

Weekday trends

Early read (12 days): Saturdays are the dry day — 0 and 2 prime seatings on the two Saturdays in the window — while Sundays read 12 and 12 and midweek runs 10-12.

Best channel

Both — start with the book itself. This book carries real open dinner inventory on many dates, and additions surface midday on top of it. December's release shape is still being measured.

Terms

Books on SevenRooms. The venue's own policy, from its booking data: cancel at least 24 hours ahead; no-shows and late cancellations are charged $50 per person to the card on file. No deposit to book, and no waitlist in the widget. Ignore any catalog that maps this room to OpenTable as “no online booking” — the live book is here.

The checklist
  • Start on SevenRooms, not OpenTable — the live book is here.
  • For a weekday or Sunday dinner, check the book first; it is often simply open.
  • For Friday or Saturday, watch for midday additions, not a release time.
  • Mind the 24-hour line: inside it, cancelling late or not showing costs $50 a person.
  • Set an alert for Friday and Saturday instead of refreshing; additions surface without warning, in the middle of the day.
Questions

Where do I book The Butcher's Block?
SevenRooms. Listings that point you to OpenTable for this room are wrong.

Is there a cancellation fee?
Yes — cancel at least 24 hours ahead, or the venue's policy charges $50 per person.

Does TableHunt book for me?
No. TableHunt watches and alerts; you book it yourself, in your own account. Nothing is held, transferred, or resold.

Measured through November 4, 2026 · production watcher (since Nov 1) + tracker SevenRooms sweeps.

How TableHunt helps

TableHunt polls the SevenRooms book the restaurant actually uses on a rolling 30-day window. When a matching table opens, you get the alert and book it yourself.

Last measured: November 2, 2026. Availability changes constantly; an alert is not a guarantee.

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