Bistrot Ha releases reservations on Resy 6 days ahead, at 12:00 AM ET. 38% of its dates had a table open up at some point.
Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 637,816 checks of Bistrot Ha through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
Come as four, aim for a Tuesday and take a late seat. A four-top shows on 13% of dates against 13% for two, Tuesday shows a two-top 10% of the time, and 10:00 PM opens most often. New dates drop on Resy at midnight, about a week out.
At midnight, one new date each night, on a window of about a week, on Resy.
Yes, by a lot. 13% of dates for four against 13% for two.
Tuesday, at 10% of checks for a table for two. Sunday and Monday have never shown one.
10:00 PM most often. 62% of openings are at 9 PM or later and 15% are in prime time.
No. SnagRes watches the calendar and alerts you by email or text the moment a table appears. You book it yourself, in your own account, at the restaurant's own price. We never hold, resell or charge per reservation.
For two, yes. For four, noticeably less so, and that is the first thing to know. Across 637,816 availability checks, Bistrot Ha has shown a bookable table for two on 13% of the dates in its window, and a table for four on 13%. Over the whole record, 38% of the dates we have watched opened at some point before they filled.
Bistrot Ha is the sit-down sibling of Ha's Snack Bar a few blocks away, and the two calendars rhyme: short windows, late-night openings, and a steady drip of cancellations. We have recorded 297 release events here, dates going from closed to open under our watch.
Open rate, party of two: 13%. Party of four: 13%.
Dates that opened at some point: 38%.
Bistrot Ha books on Resy, and new dates appear at midnight on a short window of about a week. A short window changes the math: there is never a month of dates to spread demand across, so everyone who wants the room in the next seven days is competing for the same seven dates, and the fresh one each night gets all of the attention at once.
A midnight release suits people who set alarms. It also means the people who do not are competing for cancellations, which at a week's notice are frequent. Plans change more at seven days out than at thirty.
Release time: midnight, one new date each night.
Late. The slot we have seen open most often is 10:00 PM, and 62% of recorded openings fell at 9 PM or later. Openings run from 5:30 PM to 10:00 PM, with 11% before 6 PM and 15% in the 7:00 to 8:30 PM window.
The practical reading is that a 10 PM table at Bistrot Ha is not a consolation. On this calendar it is the table that exists, and the people who take it are the people who eat here without a fight.
9 PM or later: 62%. Prime time: 15%. Before 6 PM: 11%.
Tuesday, clearly. A table for two has shown on 10% of the Tuesdays we have checked, against 7% of Wednesdays, 5% of Thursdays, 5% of Saturdays and 3% of Fridays. Sunday and Monday have never shown us a two-top.
And bring people. A four-top shows on 13% of dates against 13% for two, one of the larger party-size gaps we track in Manhattan. If your group can be four, be four.
Easiest, party of two: Tuesday, 10% of checks.
Hardest: Sunday and Monday, never seen open.
Party of four: 13%, the lever that matters most here.
Be four, aim for a Tuesday, and take a late seat. Those three choices together turn a 13% room into one that shows a table on a meaningful share of nights. For the midnight release, be on Resy with your card saved a week before the date you want.
For a specific week rather than a specific date, watch it and take the cancellation. 297 recorded openings on a week-long window means this calendar reopens dates constantly, and they last minutes.
Book on Resy. New dates appear at midnight, about a week out.
Come as four. 13% of dates against 13% for two.
Ask for 10:00 PM. Prime time is 15% of openings.
Watch a week rather than a date.
No, and that is deliberate. SnagRes watches Bistrot Ha on Resy around the clock and tells you the moment a table appears, by email or text. You book it yourself, in your own Resy account, at the restaurant's own price. Nothing is reserved, held or resold on your behalf, which is the line New York's 2024 reservation law draws and the line we stay on the right side of.
Because you cannot say any of the above about a directory. SnagRes tracks 284 restaurants across New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago, with 61,530,416 logged availability checks between the rooms with a full record. Nothing watching tens of thousands of restaurants can tell you that one Lower East Side bistro is 13% open for four and 13% for two, because nothing is watching it closely enough to count.
Keep reading: Bistrot Ha reservations · Ha's Snack Bar, the room that opens at 10 PM · The hardest tables on the Lower East Side · Why four gets in when two cannot · How Resy drops work · How we measure availability
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Bistrot Ha releases reservations 6 days ahead, and its calendar runs about 30 days deep in our checks. At the last check a table for two was bookable on 13% 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 637,816 checks, Bistrot Ha has shown a bookable table for two on 13% of dates, though 38% of dates opened at some point. We have recorded 297 release events there. 15% of the openings we have seen were between 7:00 and 8:30 PM. 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.
Bistrot Ha's calendar reaches 1 November on Monday, 26 October, and each later date follows the same rule: 6 days ahead. Hours are local to the restaurant.
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