Closed Mondays · the bar takes no bookings 000-000-0000
Woodside Table Restaurant on 61st Street · since 2016
000-000-0000 Book a table

Tuesday to Sunday · closed Mondays

Book a table

Tell us how many of you there are first — it decides how long the table is held and which tables we can search. The times you see are times we can genuinely seat that many people, not simply the hours we are open.

  • Up to 8 guests books instantly
  • 90 minutes for one to four, 120 for 5 or more
  • The twelve bar seats are never reservable

This booking form is a demonstration. The booking form on this site is a working demonstration. It writes to a real database, sends real email to the address you type, holds a real table against real inventory and refuses a booking that will not fit — but there is no restaurant on 61st Street waiting for you, and nobody will be at the door. Please do not turn up.

  1. 1How many
  2. 2Which day
  3. 3What time
  4. 4Your details

How many of you?

Party size comes first because it decides how long the table is held and which tables we can even search — so the times you see next are times we can genuinely seat you.

How a booking works here

  1. Pick a date, a time and a number

    The form asks for party size first because it changes what is available. A two can usually be seated at short notice; a six on a Saturday is a different question and the answer will be honest either way.

  2. We hold a table, not a specific table

    You are booking a seat for a window of time, not table nine. Which table you get is decided on the day by the person running the floor, and it may change up to the moment you walk in — that is how a room this size seats everybody.

  3. Confirm the email

    The confirmation carries a link. Clicking it tells us you are definitely coming, which is what lets us give away a table that nobody has confirmed. Not clicking it does not cancel your booking; it just means we will call.

  4. Tell us if things change

    The same email has a cancel link that works until the booking has passed. A cancelled table at four o'clock is a table somebody else eats at; a no-show at eight is a table nobody eats at.

Ninety minutes, or two hours for five or more. Your table is booked for ninety minutes, or two hours if there are five or more of you. That is not a hurry-up; it is arithmetic. Eighteen tables, two sittings on a Saturday evening, and a kitchen that cooks to order — if the first sitting runs long, the second sitting stands in the doorway. We would rather tell you the number when you book than discover it together at nine o'clock. If the table after you has not arrived, nobody will move you, and if you want a longer booking, ask and we will often say yes for an early one.

No card, and no charge for a no-show. We do not take a card to hold a table of eight or fewer, and we do not charge for a no-show. That is a deliberate choice and it costs us real money — on a Saturday a no-show at eight is a table that earns nothing for the rest of the night. We would rather carry that than treat everybody as a risk. What we ask in return is the thirty seconds it takes to click the cancel link in your confirmation email. Private dining is different, because a room and a set menu are bought in advance; the deposit terms are on that page.

A waitlist is not a booking. When the time you want is full, the form offers you the nearest times that are not, and a waitlist. The waitlist is a real list, worked through in order by the person running the floor, and it moves most on the day — cancellations at five o'clock are common and cancellations at eight are not. Being on it is not a booking and we will not pretend otherwise: if we cannot seat you we will say so rather than leave you hoping. You will hear either way.

If the form cannot help you

Three cases it deliberately will not handle, each with a better route:

  • Nine or more. That is a room and a set menu, not a table. The form switches to a private dining enquiry and Priya answers it herself, usually the same day.
  • You want the bar. The twelve bar seats are never reservable and never will be, which is exactly why there is usually somewhere to eat here on a Friday without a booking.
  • Tonight, in the next hour. The form stops offering times an hour ahead because the kitchen needs to know. Call 000-000-0000 and ask — the honest answer is often yes.