Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 61,530,416 checks across 284 restaurants through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
On our 19 October 2026 reading, the hardest are Atomix (0%) and Cote (0%), the share of dates with a bookable two-top. After them come Jeju Noodle Bar (7%), Jua (40%) and COTE 550 (43%), and the easiest is Jungsik (80%). The seven New York Korean rooms we track average 32%.
Ask for a Wednesday. Of the 4,898 openings we have logged at Jeju Noodle Bar, 1,026 fell on a Wednesday and 101 on a Saturday. The hour matters too: 1% of 7,221 sampled open slots were between 7:00 and 8:30 PM. It opens 44 days ahead at midnight on Resy, so the reliable path is an alert rather than the release race.
Cote opens 30 days ahead at 10 AM on Resy. It is more available than its reputation, at 0% of dates for a two-top and 93% for a four-top, with one catch: of 296,926 sampled open slots, 0% were between 7:00 and 8:30 PM. Its most frequently open time is 11:00 PM. Consider a four-top, take a Wednesday, and accept a late seating or set an alert for the rare early one.
They are separate Resy listings with different windows and different availability. Cote opens 30 days ahead at 10 AM and showed a two-top on 0% of dates. COTE 550 in Midtown East opens 14 days ahead at 10 AM and showed 43%. Both are late-night listings: 84% of COTE 550's 548,599 sampled open slots are 9 PM or later. Watching both roughly doubles the number of tables you see.
Yes, and easily by the standards of this list. Jungsik showed a table on 80% of dates for a two-top and 73% for a four-top across 3,920 checks, its easiest night reads 100% and its hardest 75%. It books on Tock, opens 30 days ahead at 11 AM, and its most frequently open slot is 9:30 PM. Monday returned 0 openings in our logs, so aim at any other night.
For a late dinner, Cote and COTE 550, where 80% and 84% of open slots are 9 PM or later. For lunch, Kisa, which regularly opens midday: 48% of its sampled open slots are before 6 PM, from as early as 11:00 AM.
It depends on the room. The easiest night is Wednesday at Cote (50%), Wednesday at Jua (62%), Thursday at Jungsik (100%) and Tuesday at COTE 550. Jua and Jungsik returned 0 and 0 Monday openings in our logs, so treat Monday as a closed night there rather than a hard one.
Jeju Noodle Bar opens 44 days ahead at midnight, Jua 21 days ahead at midnight and Kisa 15 days ahead at midnight, all on Resy. Cote opens 30 days ahead at 10 AM and COTE 550 14 days ahead at 10 AM, also on Resy. Jungsik opens 30 days ahead at 11 AM on Tock.
No. SnagRes watches these restaurants across Resy, OpenTable, Tock and SevenRooms and texts or emails you the moment a table opens. You book it yourself, in your own name, on the restaurant's own platform. We never book, hold or resell a reservation, which is the line between an alert service and a reservation broker.
On our 19 October 2026 reading, the hardest Korean reservations in New York are Atomix (0%) and Cote (0%): the share of dates in the current booking window with a bookable table for two. Atomix, the two-Michelin-star tasting counter in NoMad, has shown us 0 open tables in 4,200 checks. Jeju Noodle Bar has shown 4,898 open tables in 630,704 checks, and it reads 7% for a two-top and 3% for a four-top. Most of the rest of this list is more available than it sounds, and some of it only at an hour you probably do not want.
We follow seven Korean rooms in New York and have run 3,093,438 availability checks against their calendars, part of 61,530,416 checks across the 284 restaurants we track in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago. That is what lets this page tell you which night of the week each room opens on and which hour of the night it opens at, instead of repeating one sentence about how hard Korean reservations are.
The percentage below is the share of dates in the current booking window with a bookable two-top, so lower is harder. Listed with the total openings we have recorded over the life of our tracking.
Atomix, NoMad, Resy: 0% for a two-top and 0% for a four-top, with 0 openings across 4,200 checks.
Jeju Noodle Bar, West Village, Resy: 7% for a two-top and 3% for a four-top, with 4,898 openings across 630,704 checks.
Jua, Flatiron, Resy: 40% for a two-top and 33% for a four-top, with 253,781 openings across 632,356 checks.
COTE 550, Midtown East, Resy: 43% for a two-top and 43% for a four-top, with 250,546 openings across 615,490 checks.
Cote, Flatiron, Resy: 0% for a two-top and 93% for a four-top, with 0% of open slots at prime time.
Kisa, Lower East Side, Resy: 53% for a two-top and 53% for a four-top, with 330,917 openings across 627,900 checks.
Jungsik, Tribeca, Tock: 80% for a two-top and 73% for a four-top.
Most bookable Korean room on the list: Jungsik (80%).
The weekday record is the most useful thing we hold about Jeju Noodle Bar. Of its 4,898 recorded openings, 1,026 landed on a Wednesday, its best night at 1% of checks, and 101 on a Saturday. A diner searching only for a Saturday sees a nearly empty calendar and concludes the restaurant is impossible.
The hour is just as concentrated. Of the 7,221 open slots we have sampled there, 1% fell in the 7:00 to 8:30 PM prime window. The rest split between early seats, 57% before 6 PM, and late ones, 39% at 9 PM or later, with 5:00 PM the most common single time.
So the realistic Jeju Noodle Bar request is an early or late Wednesday for two, and the unrealistic one is a 7:30 PM Saturday. The restaurant opens its Resy calendar 44 days ahead at midnight, and we have recorded 141 release events across 50 days.
This is the kind of resolution that vanishes when a service lists tens of thousands of restaurants. Table Alert advertises 62,198. We watch 284, and that is the reason we can tell you which night one West Village noodle bar actually opens on and how rarely it hands over an 8 PM table.
Wednesday: 1,026 of 4,898 openings. Saturday: 101.
39% of 7,221 sampled open slots were 9 PM or later.
1% of those slots fell between 7:00 and 8:30 PM.
Opens 44 days ahead at midnight, on Resy.
141 release events observed across 50 days.
Cote is the most instructive number on this page, because a single availability percentage gets it wrong. A two-top was open on 0% of dates and a four-top on 93%, which looks like an easy booking. Then you look at when those tables are. Of the 296,926 open slots we have sampled at Cote, 0% landed between 7:00 and 8:30 PM. Its most frequently open slot is 11:00 PM, and 80% of everything it opens is 9 PM or later.
So Cote is genuinely available, on the condition that you eat Korean barbecue late. Pull the same request back to 8 PM on a Saturday and our data says you are chasing something that almost never appears. This is the most common way a reservation score misleads people, and it is why we publish the hour distribution next to the percentage rather than instead of it.
Party size is the other lever, and at Cote it is unusually strong. A four-top was open on 28 of 30 dates against 0 for a two-top. Wednesday is the easiest night at 50% and Friday the hardest at 14%. The restaurant opens its calendar 30 days ahead at 10 AM.
COTE 550 in Midtown East is a separate listing with the same late-night signature: its most frequently open slot is 11:00 PM, 84% of its 548,599 sampled open slots are 9 PM or later, and prime time reads 0%. It opens 14 days ahead at 10 AM, so it is the shorter runway of the two. Watching both listings roughly doubles the number of tables you see.
Cote: 0% of dates open for a two-top, 93% for a four-top, and 0% of sampled slots at prime time.
Cote's most open slot is 11:00 PM, and 80% of its slots are 9 PM or later.
Wednesday is Cote's easiest night at 50% and Friday the hardest at 14%.
COTE 550: 43% for a two-top, 43% for a four-top, and 0% of slots at prime time.
Cote opens 30 days ahead at 10 AM; COTE 550 14 days ahead at 10 AM.
There is no single Korean night; each room has its own. The easiest night by our running counters is Wednesday at Cote (50%), Wednesday at Jua (62%), Thursday at Jungsik (100%), Tuesday at COTE 550 (44%) and Sunday at Kisa (53%). The hardest nights are Saturday at Jua, Wednesday at COTE 550 and Friday at Cote.
Two rooms rarely if ever open on a Monday. Jua returned 0 Monday openings in 90,960 Monday checks, and Jungsik 0 in 626. Treat those as nights the kitchen is dark rather than nights that are hard, and move the request rather than the alert.
Kisa is evenly spread: its 330,917 openings run between 52% and 53% of checks on every night of the week, which makes it the rare New York Korean restaurant where the night you want barely changes your odds.
The practical version of all this: look up the room's own best night before you pick a date, and expect to fight for a Saturday almost anywhere on this list.
Easiest nights: Cote Wednesday, Jua Wednesday, Jungsik Thursday, COTE 550 Tuesday, Kisa Sunday.
Saturday reads 25% at Jua, 37% at COTE 550 and 20% at Cote.
Monday: 0 openings at Jua and 0 at Jungsik.
Kisa runs between 52% and 53% on every night of the week.
Jeju Noodle Bar is loosest on a Wednesday, with 1,026 of its 4,898 openings.
Release timing splits cleanly by hour. Jeju Noodle Bar opens 44 days ahead at midnight, Jua 21 days ahead at midnight and Kisa 15 days ahead at midnight, all on Resy, which means the competition happens while most of the city is asleep. Cote opens 30 days ahead at 10 AM and COTE 550 14 days ahead at 10 AM, also on Resy. Jungsik, on Tock, opens 30 days ahead at 11 AM.
The windows matter more than the hours for planning. The short windows are short-horizon bookings you cannot plan a trip around; the long ones let you book a month or more out.
How much release activity we can actually observe tracks difficulty better than the hour does. We have recorded 327 release events at Jua across 63 days and 86 at Cote across 55, against 141 at Jeju Noodle Bar and 2 at Jungsik. A room where new dates appear often and stay bookable is a room you can plan around. A room where they appear and vanish is a room to put an alert on.
Jeju Noodle Bar: 44 days ahead at midnight, Resy.
Jua: 21 days ahead at midnight, Resy.
Kisa: 15 days ahead at midnight, Resy.
Cote: 30 days ahead at 10 AM, Resy.
COTE 550: 14 days ahead at 10 AM, Resy.
Jungsik: 30 days ahead at 11 AM, Tock.
Jungsik is the answer if you want a near certainty. The Tribeca flagship showed a table on 80% of dates for a two-top and 73% for a four-top across 3,920 checks, its easiest night reads 100% and even its hardest reads 75%. Its most frequently open slot is 9:30 PM, out of 13,168 sampled slots, and 19% of what it opens is prime time.
Kisa at 53% is the most flexible room on the list for a different reason: it regularly opens lunch. Of its slot samples, 48% are before 6 PM, from as early as 11:00 AM, and 19% are 9 PM or later. If your constraint is the clock rather than the calendar, Kisa gives you both ends of the day.
Jua at 40% is worth understanding before you try, because its inventory is unusually rigid. In 415,755 sampled slots, the earliest time we have seen open is 6:00 PM and the latest 8:30 PM, so the request is really a choice between an early seating and a late one; 59% of what opens is prime time by our definition because 8:30 PM sits inside it.
For the record on the wider picture, our seven New York Korean rooms average 32% availability, against 47% for San Ho Won in San Francisco. Korean is not a scarce category in New York. A few specific rooms are scarce, and one steakhouse is scarce mainly at dinner time.
Jungsik: 80% for a two-top, easiest night 100%, hardest 75%, most open slot 9:30 PM.
Kisa: 53% for a two-top, with 48% of open slots before 6 PM.
Jua: 40% for a two-top, with open slots only between 6:00 PM and 8:30 PM.
The New York Korean rooms average 32%, against 47% for San Ho Won in San Francisco.
Match the method to the room, because the same tactic does not work twice on this list. For Jungsik and Kisa, just book: open the app, pick a flexible weeknight, and you will usually find a table waiting. For Cote, compare the four-top with the two-top and accept a late hour, or set an alert and wait for the rare earlier seat. For Jeju Noodle Bar, skip the midnight race and ask for its best night, Wednesday. For Atomix, an alert is the only realistic plan.
The tables that reach ordinary diners at the hardest end of this list are cancellations. They surface as plans change and parties shrink, on no schedule at all, and the freed seat belongs to whoever sees it first. A late table at Jeju that frees up on a Wednesday afternoon is invisible unless something is watching continuously, and nobody can refresh several booking pages across two platforms all day.
SnagRes re-checks these restaurants on Resy, Tock, OpenTable and SevenRooms around the clock and texts or emails you the moment a table matching your request appears. We never book it for you. You get the alert and a link, and the reservation ends up in your own name on the restaurant's own platform. Services that charge for the booking itself, such as the roughly 75 dollars per successful reservation TableSwap publishes on top of its subscription, attach a fee to a restaurant seat, which is the practice New York wrote its 2024 reservation law to stop. We never offer or arrange a booking, so there is nothing to resell.
Ask for the room's own best night first: Wednesday at Cote, Wednesday at Jua, Thursday at Jungsik.
At Cote, a four-top was open on 28 dates against 0 for a two-top.
At Jeju Noodle Bar, ask for a Wednesday, its loosest night.
Do not hold out for 7:30 PM at Cote or COTE 550, where prime time is 0% and 0% of what opens.
Watch both Cote and COTE 550, since they are separate listings and roughly double the tables you see.
Put an alert on the exact table you want, because cancellations appear at hours no person can predict.
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