Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 61,530,416 checks across 284 restaurants through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
By our last reading, Bungalow (0%), Ramen By Ra (0%), ADDA (7%) and Naks (20%), measured as the share of dates in each window with a bookable table for two. We have run 625,043 checks at Bungalow and 642,092 at Ramen By Ra. At the rooms reading 0%, the realistic way in is catching a cancellation rather than winning the release.
Naks is Filipino, books on SevenRooms, releases at 9 AM, and opens about 7 days ahead. It showed a bookable two-top on 20% of dates and a four-top on 17%. It has not opened a table on Mondays in our checks, which usually means it is closed then. 38% of its open slots are prime time. With a window that short, the last-minute days are worth watching.
The most bookable are Shinzo Omakase (100%), Tsukimi (63%) and Raku (47%). One step harder, Penny is at 37% for two, Raku at 47%, Claud at 37% and Yamada at 37%. All of these reward planning rather than luck.
East Village omakase runs from wide open to fully booked. Shinzo Omakase opened on 100% of dates on Resy, Tsukimi on 63% through Tock, Raku on 47% and Yamada on 37%. Ramen By Ra sits at 0%, and 100% of the open slots we have recorded there were before 6 PM. At Yamada 52% of openings are early, so an early booking is the easy way in.
ADDA, Naks, Claud, and Penny release at 9 AM. Bungalow goes at 11 AM and Raku at 3 PM. Yamada, Kabawa, and Shinzo Omakase roll their windows at midnight, and Tsukimi at 8 PM. The horizon matters too: ADDA opens 7 days out, while Shinzo Omakase goes 30.
It depends on the room, which is why we measure both. Penny is open on 37% of dates for two and 10% for four. Yamada reads 37% and 23%, and Naks 20% and 17%. ADDA reads 7% for two and 17% for four.
No. SnagRes watches East Village restaurants across Resy, OpenTable, Tock, and SevenRooms and emails or texts you the moment a watched table opens, and you book it yourself. We never hold or resell a reservation. Resale services charge for that, such as the $75 per successful reservation TableSwap advertises, and that is the practice New York's 2024 reservation law was written to stop.
Each percentage is the share of dates in a restaurant's booking window that had a bookable table, recorded at two party sizes by re-checking the live booking page around the clock. The East Village counters stand at 4,941,210 availability checks and 1,313 observed release events across eleven rooms, part of 61,530,416 checks in total. Figures here were measured as of 19 October 2026. A weekday we describe as never open is one where no bookable table has ever appeared in our checks, which usually means the room is closed that night.
The hardest East Village reservations we can measure are Bungalow (0%), Ramen By Ra (0%), ADDA (7%) and Naks (20%), by the share of dates in each window that showed a bookable table for two. We have run 625,043 availability checks at Bungalow and 642,092 at Ramen By Ra. At a room reading a single-digit percentage there is a real table on a handful of nights. At a room reading 0% there was nothing at our last reading.
A 0% score does not mean a room never seats anyone. It means the seat never sits still. We watched 265 separate release events at Bungalow over 55 days of observation and 308 at ADDA over 60 days. Demand at each drop is far above the number of covers, so the calendar empties inside the seconds it takes a person to choose a party size.
The eleven East Village rooms we track have absorbed 4,941,210 availability checks and 1,313 observed release events between them. That is a deliberately small list. We would rather be able to tell you what one room actually does at 9:45 PM on a Thursday than list every restaurant in the city and know nothing specific about any of them. Ranked by how often a two-top is open, this is the neighborhood as measured.
Bungalow, Indian, Resy. Open on 0% of dates for two and 0% for four. Drops at 11 AM and books about 20 days out. It has not opened a table on Mondays in our checks, which usually means it is closed then. Of every slot we have ever seen open here, 39% were late seatings and 19% were prime time.
Ramen By Ra, Japanese, Resy. Open on 0% of dates for two and 0% for four. The striking part is the clock: 100% of the open slots we have recorded were before 6 PM, and the most common was 9:00 AM.
ADDA, Indian, SevenRooms. Open on 7% of dates for two, 17% for four. Releases at 9 AM and books only 7 days out. It has shown a table on every night of the week. Its most common open slot is 9:30 PM.
Naks, Filipino, SevenRooms. Open on 20% of dates for two, 17% for four. Releases at 9 AM on a 7-day horizon. It has not opened a table on Mondays in our checks, which usually means it is closed then. 38% of its open slots are prime time, and 9:30 PM is the one that turns up most.
Kabawa, Caribbean, OpenTable. Open on 27% of dates for two, 20% for four. New dates land at midnight, 14 days out. Tuesday is its easiest night at 39% and Friday its hardest at 18%. It has not opened a table on Sundays or Mondays in our checks, which usually means it is closed then. 87% of its open slots are late.
Claud, American, Resy. Open on 37% of dates for two and 40% for four. Releases at 9 AM, 14 days out. Tuesday is the easiest night at 45% and Friday the hardest at 8%, with 9:30 PM the slot that appears most.
Yamada, Japanese, Resy. Open on 37% of dates for two, 23% for four. New dates roll in at midnight, 19 days out. This is an early room: 52% of open slots are early seatings, 0% are late, 5:30 PM is the most common, and 8:30 PM is the latest we have seen.
Raku, Japanese, SevenRooms. Open on 47% of dates for two and 47% for four. Releases at 3 PM, 14 days out. Its most common open slot is 5:00 PM and the earliest is 3:00 PM, so the room gives up its afternoon before it gives up its evening.
Penny, Seafood, Resy. Open on 37% of dates for two and 10% for four. Releases at 9 AM, 14 days out. Late seatings are 79% of everything we see open, 10:30 PM most of all, and prime time is 1%.
Tsukimi, Japanese, Tock. Open on 63% of dates for two and 60% for four. Its window rolls at 8 PM and reaches 0 days out. Thursday is easiest at 100%. It has not opened a table on Mondays or Tuesdays in our checks, which usually means it is closed then. Late seatings are 0% of what opens.
Shinzo Omakase, Japanese, Resy. Open on 100% of dates for two and 100% for four, 30 days out, across 656,990 checks and 5,220,414 recorded slots. The most common open seat is 5:00 PM, the earliest 2:00 PM, the latest 9:15 PM.
Release times here are scattered across the day rather than clustered. Naks, ADDA, Claud, and Penny all put new dates up at 9 AM. Bungalow goes at 11 AM. Raku goes at 3 PM. Yamada, Kabawa, and Shinzo Omakase roll their windows over at midnight, and Tsukimi at 8 PM.
How far ahead that date sits matters as much as the hour. ADDA runs 7 days and Naks 7, so there is no such thing as booking them a month ahead. Claud runs 14, Raku 14, Kabawa 14 and Penny 14. Yamada runs 19, Bungalow 20, and Tsukimi and Shinzo Omakase 30. A plan built on the wrong horizon fails before the alarm goes off.
Knowing the hour helps in the middle of the table and does almost nothing at the top. We have now watched 1,313 release events across this neighborhood, and the pattern is consistent: at Raku, Claud, or Kabawa being ready at the drop with your party size already chosen is often enough. At Bungalow it is not, because a crowd arrives in the same second and the seats are claimed before the booking screen finishes loading.
That is why the scheduled release is only half of an honest answer. For the hardest rooms the release is a formality, and the openings a real diner gets come later and at random, as cancellations. If you want the full picture of how release windows work across platforms, the release-times guide covers the mechanics, and the Lower East Side and Greenwich Village pages show the same pattern a few blocks away.
The hour of the evening is the part almost nobody publishes, and it decides whether an alert is worth setting. We record every open slot we see, so we can say what each room gives up. Penny's most common open slot is 10:30 PM. Kabawa's is 10:00 PM. Claud's is 9:30 PM. None of those is the 7:30 PM table people picture when they say they want a reservation.
Some rooms run the opposite way. At Yamada 52% of open slots are early and 0% late, the most common is 5:30 PM, and 8:30 PM is the latest we have caught. Tsukimi runs 0% late, led by 8:15 PM. Raku starts at 3:00 PM and its most common open seat is 5:00 PM. If you are willing to eat early, these are easier than their percentages suggest.
Ramen By Ra is the strangest case in the neighborhood. 100% of the open slots we have recorded there were before 6 PM, the most frequent at 9:00 AM. So dinner is effectively closed, and what occasionally surfaces is a morning or afternoon seat.
Days of the week behave just as unevenly. Kabawa is open on 39% of Tuesdays and 18% of Fridays. Claud peaks on Tuesday at 45% and bottoms out on Friday at 8%. Closed nights in our record: Bungalow on Mondays, Naks on Mondays, Kabawa on Sundays or Mondays, Yamada on Sundays or Mondays and Tsukimi on Mondays or Tuesdays. An alert on one of those nights can only ever be a false hope.
It can, and not always in the direction people expect. We measure two-tops and four-tops separately, and the gap can invert the ranking. Of the East Village rooms we measure, five read lower for four than for two and two read higher. Penny is open on 37% of dates for two and 10% for four. Yamada goes from 37% to 23% and Naks from 20% to 17%.
ADDA reads 7% for two and 17% for four, and Claud 37% and 40%. Rooms are built around their table mix, and a restaurant with more four-seat tops than deuces will sometimes hold a party of four more easily than a pair.
The practical move is to check the size you actually need before you decide a room is impossible, and to pick your party size deliberately rather than rounding up. The party-size guide has the full cross-city picture. It is also the clearest example of why we track 284 tables instead of tens of thousands: a number this specific only exists if something checks the same calendar at two party sizes, thousands of times.
A table at Bungalow or Ramen By Ra means catching a cancellation. Since the release itself leaves little for a normal diner, the seats real people sit in come from other guests giving theirs up. Those do not arrive on a schedule. They appear at odd hours as plans change, deposits get reconsidered, and parties shrink, and they cluster in the final day or two before a date, when someone who booked weeks ago admits they cannot go.
SnagRes watches East Village restaurants on Resy, OpenTable, Tock, and SevenRooms and texts or emails you the moment a watched table opens. That is the whole job, because no person can refresh four apps every few minutes for two straight days. When a seat frees at 4 PM on a Tuesday you hear about it while it is still there instead of finding the trace of it afterwards.
We never book the table. You get the alert, you tap through, and the reservation is in your own name at the restaurant's own price. That is a real difference in this market, not a technicality: resale services charge for a table they hold and flip, which is the practice New York's 2024 reservation law was written to stop. TableSwap, for example, advertises $75 per successful reservation. An alert costs a restaurant nothing and costs you nothing at the door.
Pick the exact rooms, dates, and party size you want, so every alert points at a table you would actually take.
Match the horizon to the room: 7 days for ADDA, 14 for Claud, 30 for Shinzo Omakase.
Try the drop at the right hour, and for a fully booked room let an alert cover the rest.
Watch the last day or two before your date, which is where cancellations concentrate.
Widen the seating before you widen the neighborhood: 5:30 PM at Yamada and 5:00 PM at Raku are genuinely open in a way 8 PM is not.
The most bookable East Village rooms we track are Shinzo Omakase (100%), Tsukimi (63%) and Raku (47%). Shinzo Omakase has logged 5,220,414 open slots with us. Tsukimi is easiest on Thursdays at 100%, and is a Tock booking with its own closed nights.
One step harder, Penny sits at 37% for two, Raku at 47%, Claud at 37% and Yamada at 37%. These reward a little planning rather than luck. Aim at Claud on a Tuesday rather than a Friday, at Yamada on a Wednesday rather than a Saturday, and at Kabawa on a Tuesday, and you are playing the easiest night each room has instead of the hardest.
If your heart is set on ADDA or Naks, the sensible plan is to book one of the reachable rooms as a floor, then set an alert on the one you want. Both open only about a week ahead, so the near-term window is exactly where the watching pays. If it opens you trade up, and if it does not you still have dinner.
Every figure on this page comes from our own checks against the restaurant's live booking page, not from a menu, a press release, or a reputation. We re-check each room around the clock, record whether a table was bookable on each date in its window, at two party sizes, and keep the slot times we saw. The counters here stand at 4,941,210 checks in the East Village alone and 61,530,416 across the 284 tables we track.
Coverage is not what we are selling, and we will not pretend otherwise. Table Alert advertises 62,198 restaurants. Nobody watching 62,198 restaurants can tell you Penny's most common open seat, which night Claud opens most, or how a four-top at Penny compares with a two-top. Those facts only exist for a list short enough to watch properly.
The percentages move, because availability moves. A restaurant that reads 0% today is not sentenced to it forever, and a room at 40% can tighten when a review lands. Figures on this page were measured as of 19 October 2026, and the live tracker is always ahead of the article. The point of publishing the method is so you can tell how much weight the number deserves.
Measured East Village availability: which rooms are fully booked for two, what hour each one actually gives up, how party size changes the odds, and how to catch a cancellation.
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