La Cigale in Glen Park adds online reservations for tiny dining room
Glen Park’s La Cigale moved from walk-ins to online booking for just 14 or 15 seats, opening a rare table to more neighborhood diners.
La Cigale has started taking online reservations for its 14- to 15-seat dining room at 679 Chenery Street, changing how Glen Park diners can get into one of San Francisco’s smallest tables.
The shift matters because the room has been built around scarcity from the start. Opened in fall 2025 after more than three years of work, La Cigale is centered on a chef’s counter and hearth, with only a handful of seats and a set menu that changes daily. Until recently, diners had to depend on showing up in person or trying to catch a spot through a waitlist, a system that favored people with flexible schedules and the luck to arrive early.
Now the restaurant’s reservations page says bookings are released on a rolling 30-day window at noon each day. La Cigale offers two seatings nightly, at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m., limits online parties to four, and requires a credit card to book. It can charge $75 per person for cancellations or reductions in party size within 24 hours, a sign that the restaurant is trying to protect a very small number of seats from last-minute fallout.
The pricing remains as tightly managed as the room itself. La Cigale’s menu is $140 per person, including tax and service, and the restaurant says the menu changes daily. The kitchen cooks entirely over a wood-fired hearth, part of the appeal of a place that was designed to feel intimate rather than expansive.
Owners Joseph Magidow and Daisy Linden have said they wanted to prioritize the neighborhood, and the new booking system fits that goal by making the restaurant easier to plan around. Magidow previously worked at Delfina and Tawla in San Francisco, and La Cigale has drawn attention for trying to pair a highly limited dining room with a polished, all-inclusive format.
The change also marks a shift from just a few months ago, when the restaurant was still being treated as a no-reservation destination. For a city where the hottest tables often reward the fastest walkers and earliest arrivals, La Cigale’s online booking system gives Glen Park a different model: still scarce, but less arbitrary.
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