Google expands AI Mode restaurant booking beyond the U.S. to eight markets

What Google is expanding

On April 10, 2026, Google said in an X post that restaurant booking in AI Mode is expanding beyond the U.S. for the first time. The new locations are Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa and the United Kingdom. The user flow is simple on the surface: describe the table you want, including constraints such as party size, time and cuisine, and AI Mode searches across multiple platforms and websites for real-time availability before handing you off to finish the reservation with a partner.

That matters because Google has been positioning AI Mode as more than a generative answer box. In its August 21, 2025 product post on agentic AI Mode, Google described the restaurant workflow as a capability that can search across reservation providers, assemble a shortlist of available options and then link the user directly to the booking page. Google said the stack combines live web browsing from Project Mariner, direct Search integrations, the Knowledge Graph and Google Maps to help users take action on the web.

Why it matters

The international rollout is strategically important because booking is one of the clearest tests of whether AI-powered search can move from recommendation to execution. A search engine can already suggest restaurants. The harder product problem is handling messy real-world constraints, checking live availability and getting the user to the final step without forcing them to restart the task somewhere else. By bringing this outside the U.S., Google is testing whether AI Mode can survive different local reservation ecosystems and still feel reliable.

An inference from the sources is that Google is treating AI Mode as a commerce and task-completion surface, not only a conversational interface. The April 10 post does not restate every partner or eligibility detail from the earlier U.S. launch, so those specifics may still vary by market. But the direction is clear: Google wants Search to keep more of the high-intent journey inside an agentic flow, where discovery, filtering and handoff happen in one place rather than across a long series of tabs.

Sources: Google X post · Google AI Mode product post