damnlines.comdamnlines.comJames Beard-winning East Village speakeasy entered through a phone-booth door inside Crif Dogs; walk-in seats are famously scarce.
There is no sidewalk line here in the usual sense. You enter through a vintage phone booth inside Crif Dogs at 113 St. Marks Place, pick up the receiver, and a host opens a hidden wall (Trusted Travel Girl, Time Out NY). The room is tiny: about 15 seats at the bar plus a few tables, and no standing room (Trusted Travel Girl). Because it is small and reservation-driven, the real question is not how long the line is but whether a seat or a cancellation exists.
Booking guides mark PDT very hard. Reservations open about a week in advance and fill quickly; historically you call (212) 614-0386 at 3pm and keep redialing, and bookings also run through Resy (Trusted Travel Girl, itsadate.nyc). Punctuality is enforced: Trusted Travel Girl reports the bar gives up your table if you are more than 15 minutes late, regardless of who you are.
Walk-ins are limited and depend on cancellations. Booking guides describe walk-in waits that can run two hours or more, and nights where the host simply turns people away once the 15-seat room is full (itsadate.nyc). On a Thursday evening, Time Out NY watched a steady stream of tourists enter the phone booth, take photos, and get told the bar was at capacity. Guides say the best walk-in odds are right at the 5pm open.
No camera here yet — but these lines are on camera right now:
Lucinda's · 2 min walkclosedBánh Anh Em · 8 min walkclosedCaffè Panna · 13 min walkclosedThere is no camera here, so no live number. Booking guides say walk-in waits can run two hours or more and depend entirely on cancellations; some nights the host turns people away once the roughly 15-seat room is full (itsadate.nyc, Time Out NY).
Yes. Reservations open about a week in advance and fill quickly. Historically you call (212) 614-0386 at 3pm and keep redialing, and bookings also run through Resy (Trusted Travel Girl, itsadate.nyc).
Guides point to arriving right at the 5pm open for the best walk-in shot, and to weeknights over Friday and Saturday. Even so, Time Out NY saw the bar at capacity on a Thursday.
Enter Crif Dogs at 113 St. Marks Place, step into the vintage phone booth, pick up the receiver, and the host opens a hidden wall (Trusted Travel Girl, Time Out NY). The room seats about 15 at the bar with no standing room.
Trusted Travel Girl reports PDT gives up your table if you are more than 15 minutes late, regardless of who you are.