How to Use the OpenTable Connector in Muse

What is the short answer?

As of October 25, 2026, OpenTable is a live connector in Muse. It has been live since launch day, September 8, 2026, and it was still counted among the 54 connectors in the web app in the October 15 in app check, with about 58 to 60 live in total, counting phone only connectors, and 18 announced but not live. The October 7 update brought the iPad app and an expanded connector list, and Muse launched in Japan on October 23, so Muse is now available in the United States, Canada, and Japan.

Here is the quotable answer. Connect OpenTable and booking a table becomes a sentence: where to eat tonight, a birthday table for six, and a reminder before you leave the house. OpenTable itself lists more than 70,000 restaurants, lets you search by date, time, and location, read diner reviews, filter by cuisine, price, and occasion, and change or cancel a booking from the app. The connector is supposed to bring that booking into Muse so you can plan a night out in plain words instead of tapping through search filters.

Here is the honest version, and it matters. Meta has not published a detailed list of what the OpenTable connector can read or change inside Muse, so the uses in this guide are the reasonable ones to try first, not promises. We could not verify in October whether Muse can see your past bookings, your points, or live table availability, or whether it can book a table at all or only suggest one. Test every use below with a small request first, check the answer against the OpenTable app, and trust only what you have seen work with your own account. The rest of this guide covers how to connect it, what to ask for, and what to check before you go.

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What do you need?

• Muse access. You need an account with access first, in the United States, Canada, or Japan, where Muse has launched.
• An OpenTable account. The connector reads your OpenTable bookings, so you need an account with some history in it. A brand new account with no bookings yet gives Muse nothing to learn your taste from.
• Your taste in plain words. What you like and what you avoid: cuisines, price range, noise level, dietary needs, and the places you keep going back to. One clear paragraph beats ten vague likes.
• Your party and your dates. How many people usually eat with you, and which nights you are free. A booking request without a date, a time, and a party size is a guess, not a plan.
• Approvals set to ask me. Before you connect anything, set approvals so nothing is booked or changed without your tap. This is the single most important step on this page.

How do you connect it, step by step?

The connection itself takes a few minutes. The verification around it matters more, because the connector details are not published, so run the steps in order and test before you trust it.

1. Open Muse and go to Settings. The connectors list lives there. What is printed there is what your account has, because rollout is staged and two accounts can see different lists on the same day.
2. Find OpenTable in the connectors list and open it. If OpenTable is not listed, your account has not received it yet. There is nothing to install and nothing you broke. Check again in a few days.
3. Sign in with your OpenTable account. Use the account where your booking history and points live. If you have two accounts, pick the one with the history, because Muse can only see the account you connect.
4. Grant the access Muse asks for. Read the permission screen before you accept it. If a scope surprises you, stop and check what it covers before continuing.
5. Set approvals to ask me. In Muse settings, set approvals so that booking, changing, or cancelling a table always waits for you. This is what stops Muse from ever booking a table you did not ask for.
6. Test with a read only request. Ask Muse where you ate last month. Read the answer against the OpenTable app. If it matches, the connector can see your history. If it cannot answer, it may only be able to suggest restaurants, and you should plan around that.
7. Test a booking suggestion before a real night out. Ask for a table for a made up night first, check the suggestion in the OpenTable app, and only then use it for a real plan. A test costs nothing and a wrong booking on a birthday costs the evening.

Copy this prompt

You are my dining planner. Use my OpenTable connector only.
Rules: you never book, change, or cancel a table without my explicit approval. You search, suggest, and remind. I approve every booking.
My taste: [cuisines I like, price range, noise level, dietary needs]
My usual party: [how many people, and any kids or dietary needs in the group]
When I ask for a table, do this in order.
1. Ask me for the date, time, and party size if I did not give them.
2. Suggest 3 places that fit, with why each one fits, and what it costs.
3. Tell me which one has a table at the time I want, and which ones do not.
4. Show me the booking details before anything is booked.
5. Remind me on the day, two hours before the table time.

What does it actually do?

The connector earns its place with five uses. Everything else is a variation on one of them. Each use below starts with a test, because the connector details are not published, and a use you have tested beats a use you assumed. Our complete connectors list tracks which connectors are live now and which are only announced, so check there if a connector you want is missing from your settings.

Where should you eat tonight?

Ask Muse for a table tonight, with the cuisine, the price, the area, and the time, and let it suggest three places that fit, with why each one fits. This is the highest value use, because the nightly question of where to eat is a decision people make tired and hungry, which is the worst time to make any decision. Three suggestions with reasons beat a list of fifty restaurants with no filter, and a reason you can argue with is more useful than a rating you cannot. Name the constraints up front: dietary needs, kids in the party, a budget, a noise level you can live with. If the connector cannot see live availability, the suggestion is still useful, but you must check the table time in the OpenTable app before you tell anyone where you are going. A suggestion is not a booking, and the gap between them is where evenings go wrong.

How do you plan an occasion table?

Ask Muse to plan the birthday table, the anniversary dinner, or the team meal, with the date, the party size, and the budget, and let it do the shortlisting in one go. Occasion bookings fail in a specific way: someone books the first place with a table, the food is fine, and the room is wrong, too loud for a quiet dinner, too small for ten people, too far for half the party. A shortlist built from your taste, with the trade offs named, lets you pick the right room, not just the first table. Tell Muse what the night is for, because a birthday for six and a business meal for six are different rooms even when the food is the same. Book early for the popular nights, and keep the confirmation where you can find it on the day, because a booking you cannot find is a booking you do not have.

How does Muse remember what you liked?

Ask Muse where you ate last month and what you liked about it. Most people have a clear taste and no memory of it: the place with the great noodles, the quiet corner table, the restaurant that handled a gluten free request without a fuss. A connector that remembers your bookings can turn that scattered memory into a short list of places worth going back to, and a list of places to avoid. This use only works if the connector can see your history, so run the test in step 6 first. If it cannot see history, tell Muse the places you remember and let it keep the list from there, which works just as well once the list exists.

How do you change or cancel a booking?

Ask Muse to move a booking to a later time, add two people to the party, or cancel a table you no longer need. Plans change, and the value of a booking tool is not just in booking, it is in changing the booking without a phone call and a wait. OpenTable lets you change or cancel from the app, and the connector is supposed to let you do it in plain words. Say the booking, the change, and the new details in one sentence, and read the confirmation back before you close the chat. If Muse cannot change bookings through the connector, change it in the OpenTable app and tell Muse, so the plan it keeps stays true. A changed plan that Muse does not know about is a reminder that will arrive for a table you no longer have.

How do reminders work before you leave?

Ask Muse to remind you on the day, two hours before the table time, with the place, the time, and the party size. This is the quiet use that saves the evening: the booking made on Monday, forgotten by Friday, remembered in the car on the way somewhere else. A reminder with the address and the time is worth more than a reminder that just says you have a booking. Pair it with your calendar, and our Google Calendar connector guide covers that half, so the dinner and the day sit in one place. If Muse cannot see your bookings through the connector, give it the booking details yourself and ask for the reminder, which works just as well.

What can it not do?

The limits are honest and worth knowing before you lean on the connector. The first limit is the one this whole guide keeps repeating, because it shapes everything else.

• It cannot promise what Meta has not published. We could not verify in October whether Muse can see your past bookings, your points, or live table availability, or whether it can book a table at all. Treat every use above as a test, and trust only what you have seen work with your own account.
• It cannot book a table that does not exist. If a restaurant is full at the time you want, Muse cannot make a table appear, and a confident sounding booking for a full restaurant is a booking that will fail at the door. Always check the confirmation in the OpenTable app before you tell anyone where you are going.
• It cannot know the room. It cannot tell you that the table is next to the kitchen, that the music is loud on Fridays, or that the place is perfect for a quiet talk. Reviews help, and your own memory helps more, so read the diner reviews before an occasion booking.
• It cannot book without your approval when approvals are set right. That is a feature, not a bug. If you turn approvals off, you lose the safety net, so keep them on for anything that books, changes, or cancels a table.
• It cannot cover restaurants outside OpenTable. A restaurant that does not list on OpenTable is invisible to it, no matter how good it is. If your favourite place takes bookings by phone only, Muse cannot book it, and you should keep the phone number saved.

What should you watch for?

As of October 25, 2026, OpenTable is a settled connector in the list: live since September 8, still listed in the October 15 in app check, and part of a web app count of 54 connectors. There is no October change to how it works, so the habits around it still matter. Check every booking in the OpenTable app before you go, especially the date, the time, the party size, and the restaurant name. A wrong date acted on fast is worse than a slow read you verified, and a table booked for the wrong Friday is an evening lost.

Watch for the confident suggestion. An AI assistant that sounds sure about a table can be wrong about the table, and the failure only shows up at the restaurant door, when it is too late to fix. The rule is simple: a suggestion is not a booking, and a booking is not real until the OpenTable app shows it. Read the confirmation, check the time, and screenshot it if you are the kind of person who loses chats. For occasion bookings, call the restaurant the day before and confirm the party size and any special request, because a note in an app is not the same as a person who read it.

Check your data controls. In Muse settings, open Data controls and look at the switch for helping improve the models. If you do not want your chats used for training, turn it off before you start asking Muse to plan your nights out. That switch controls whether Meta may use your chats to train future models.

Finally, remember the rollout is staged. Your account may see a different connector list from a friend in the same city on the same day, and a use that works for them may not work for you yet. That is normal for a launch this young, and it is not a thing you broke. Check your own settings, test with a small request, and build the habit on what your account can actually do today.

How do you get started?

Frequently asked questions

Can Muse book an OpenTable table for me?

We could not verify this in October. Meta has not published whether the connector can book tables or only suggest them. Keep approvals on ask me and test with a made up night first.

Can Muse see my past OpenTable bookings?

That is what the connector is for, but we could not verify the details in October. Ask Muse where you ate last month and check the answer against the OpenTable app before you trust it.

Does the connector show live table availability?

We could not verify this in October. OpenTable itself shows live availability in its app, so check the time you want there before you tell anyone where you are going. A suggestion is not a booking.

Can Muse handle dietary needs and special requests?

OpenTable lets you message restaurants about dietary needs and special requests from the app. Tell Muse the need in plain words, and check that it reached the restaurant before the day.

Can I use the OpenTable connector outside the United States, Canada, and Japan?

Not yet. Muse itself has launched in the United States, Canada, and Japan only. Join the waitlist and we will send you a fresh code on launch day in your country.

What happens if I disconnect OpenTable?

Muse loses access to your booking history. Your bookings and points stay in the OpenTable app, and nothing Muse suggested is booked after you disconnect. You can reconnect the same account later.

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