4 Charles Prime Rib releases reservations on Resy 21 days ahead, at 9:00 AM ET. Tables go fast, so the people who get in hear first.
Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 645,420 checks of 4 Charles Prime Rib through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
“Reservations are available up to 21 days in advance, with each new date becoming available at 9 AM.”
4 Charles Prime Rib releases one new date on Resy 21 days ahead at 9 AM, according to its own Resy listing. At our last check a table for two showed on 0% of dates across 645,420 checks, so the release and a text the moment a cancellation opens are the only realistic ways in.
Two paths. Be signed into Resy with your party size preselected at the release, 21 days ahead at 9 AM. Otherwise wait for a cancellation, which surfaces at no fixed hour and is claimed within minutes. Given our record, hold a backup reservation you would be glad to keep.
Yes, and only Resy. There is no second platform hosting its tables, so the 9 AM release and every later cancellation both happen there. Have the app open, signed in, and your party size chosen before the release, because setup time is the whole margin.
Yes, it is the hardest reading we have, and people still get in at the release. Across 645,420 availability checks of the 4 Charles Prime Rib calendar, all of them looking for a two-top, 0 found a bookable date. A party of four reads 0% on the current window. It still seats people every night. Its public calendar is simply never open when anyone, including a check running every few minutes, looks at it.
No, and that is unusual. At most rooms this hard, a larger table opens more often: Monkey Bar showed 50% for two and 47% for four. At 4 Charles a two-top has opened 0 times in 645,420 checks and a four-top reads 0% on the current window, so switching party size is not the lever here.
We cannot tell you, and we will not invent one. More than 91,821 of our two-top checks landed on each day of the week, and every column reads the same. There is no softer night in our record, which is a different answer from most restaurants we track.
At no fixed hour. They surface as plans change, parties shrink and deposits get reconsidered, and each freed seat is bookable by whoever sees it first, usually for a minute or two. Because the calendar is otherwise empty in every check we have run, a cancellation alert is the only realistic way to be there when one appears.
Yes. It is a small West Village steakhouse that runs on reservations, and our record of 645,420 two-top checks has found 0 open dates on its public calendar. Plan on the release or on a cancellation alert, and keep a backup for the same night.
No. SnagRes watches 4 Charles Prime Rib on Resy around the clock and alerts you by text or email the moment a table opens. You book it yourself in your own Resy account at the restaurant's own price. We never hold a table under another name and never resell one, unlike paid resale services that charge per successful reservation.
For the live calendar, see 4 Charles Prime Rib availability right now, rechecked around the clock.
4 Charles Prime Rib releases a new date on Resy 21 days ahead at 9 AM. That comes from the restaurant's own Resy listing, which states that reservations are available up to 21 days in advance with each new date becoming available at 9 AM. We last checked that wording on 20 August 2026. It is the West Village steakhouse from the Au Cheval team, and it books on Resy only, so there is no second platform to try instead.
Because the window rolls forward one day at a time, there is a single moment each morning when a fresh date appears at the far edge of a three-week calendar. That moment is the entire public supply of tables. A wall of people arrive at it together, and by a minute past nine the date is gone.
We cannot confirm the 9 AM hour from our own observations, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Our release detection needs to catch a date in the act of becoming bookable, and at 4 Charles we have recorded 0 bookable dates in our whole record. The restaurant's own listing is the best source that exists for the clock time, so that is the one we cite.
Platform: Resy, and only Resy. No second platform is holding back tables.
Release: 9:00 AM, 21 days ahead, per the restaurant's own Resy listing as of 20 August 2026.
Our own record: 645,420 availability checks at 4 Charles Prime Rib, and 0 found an open table.
It is very hard, and it is still bookable: the 9 AM release is how people get in. Across 645,420 availability checks of the 4 Charles Prime Rib calendar, every one of them looking for a table for two, 0 checks have returned a bookable date. It holds on every day of the week too: more than 91,821 of those checks landed on each weekday, and every column reads the same. On the current reading of the calendar, dated 19 October 2026, a party of four reads 0%.
A zero does not mean the restaurant never seats anyone. It means the public calendar is never sitting open when a normal person looks at it, including the times a determined person looks at it, which in our case is every few minutes around the clock. Whatever the 9 AM release puts out, it is gone before a scheduled check can see it.
That puts 4 Charles in a very small group. At our last reading 39 of the 284 restaurants we track sat at 0% for a two-top, and most of them have produced an opening at some point. 4 Charles has not.
It is worth saying what this figure is not. It is not a claim that tables do not exist, and it is not a scarcity story we are telling to sell an alert. It is a count of checks that came back empty, and it is the most honest thing we can put on this page.
Party of two: 0 bookable dates in 645,420 availability checks, which all look for a two-top.
Party of four: 0% on the 19 October 2026 reading, unlike most rooms this hard, where a larger table opens more often.
Every weekday reads the same, on more than 91,821 two-top checks apiece.
For contrast on the same measure, open two-tops found: Carbone 7,375, Monkey Bar 58,777, Torrisi 996, 4 Charles 0.
On most restaurants we can tell you which times come free and which nights are softest, because we log every open slot we see. At 4 Charles we have logged none. There is no most frequently open slot, no earliest or latest table, no best night, and we are not going to estimate one from a restaurant that resembles it.
That absence is itself the finding, and it is the difference between this page and a listicle. At Carbone we can say the openings pile up at 11:30 AM and which weekday beats which. At Monkey Bar we can say 100% of what opens is before 6 PM and that a four-top reads 47% while a two-top reads 50%. At 4 Charles Prime Rib the record contains one fact, repeated 645,420 times, and it says the release is the moment that matters.
Practically, that changes the advice. We have not seen a party size or an hour that works better here, so the plan is simpler: the release itself, an alert for anything given back, and a backup plan you would not be embarrassed to eat at.
Be at the release, and be set up before it. That means signed into Resy on the morning your date first appears, 21 days ahead at 9 AM, with the party size already selected so that nothing is left to type at the release. Every second spent tapping is a second the date is being taken by someone who did their setup the night before.
After that, the only openings a normal diner can reach are cancellations. They arrive at no fixed hour, as plans change, parties shrink and deposits get reconsidered, and each freed seat is bookable by whoever sees it first, often for a minute or two. A table released at 4:10 PM on a Tuesday is invisible unless something is watching 4 Charles for it, and no person can refresh Resy every few minutes for three weeks.
Prepare well for the release, and give yourself a second path. Set the alert, then book somewhere you actually want to eat, and cancel it in good time if 4 Charles comes through. That is a more honest strategy than refreshing, and it is kinder to the restaurant you would otherwise no-show.
Set an alarm for the release, 21 days ahead at 9 AM, with Resy open and signed in.
Preselect party size and date before the clock turns, because setup time is the whole margin.
Do not count on a party-size switch here: two has opened 0 times in 645,420 checks and four reads 0% now.
Let an alert watch for cancellations, which surface at hours no person can sit and refresh through.
Hold a backup reservation you are happy with, and release it early if the alert fires.
We track 284 restaurants across New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago. That is the whole list, and the small number is the point. Nobody watching tens of thousands of rooms can tell you that 4 Charles Prime Rib has returned 0 open tables in 645,420 checks while Carbone has returned 7,375, because that comparison requires checking the same small set of calendars over and over for months.
The figures here come from re-checking those calendars around the clock, 61,530,416 availability checks so far across the tracked list, of which 645,420 are 4 Charles. Release times are cited from each restaurant's own booking listing when our own observations cannot supply them, and this page says plainly which is which.
We also never book a table. SnagRes watches 4 Charles Prime Rib and texts or emails you the moment one appears, and you book it yourself in your own Resy account at the restaurant's own price. No bot holds a seat under a stranger's name, and there is nothing for sale afterward. Paid resale of reservations is the practice New York's 2024 reservation law was written to address, and we are not in that business.
At a restaurant with a record like this one, that distinction is not abstract. A room this hard to book is exactly the kind of room where someone offers to sell you a table that is not theirs. We will only ever tell you when a real one appears.
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4 Charles Prime Rib releases reservations 21 days ahead at 9 AM, and its calendar runs about 30 days deep in our checks. At the last check a table for two was bookable on 0% of the dates in that window, so the release itself is the one real chance, and the rest come back as cancellations.
Because the tables that exist are gone at the drop. Across 645,420 checks, 4 Charles Prime Rib has shown a bookable table for two on 0% of dates, though 0% of dates opened at some point. We have recorded 1 release events there. The seats you can actually get are the ones that come back when someone cancels, which is why an alert on the date beats refreshing.
4 Charles Prime Rib's calendar reaches 1 December on Tuesday, 10 November at 9 AM, and each later date follows the same rule: 21 days ahead at 9 AM. Hours are local to the restaurant.
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