A table for two was open on 47% of dates, so booking ahead works.
Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 618,537 checks of Folklore through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
Book a daytime table on Resy: 89% of openings are before 6 PM and a two-top has shown on 99% of Thursdays. For weekend dinner, watch the date. At any moment the room is 47% open.
We have not measured a single release hour. Half the calendar is open at any moment.
2:15 PM most often. 89% of openings are before 6 PM; prime time is 6%.
Thursday, at 99% of checks for a table for two. Monday has never shown one.
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.
Not for most of the day. Across 618,537 availability checks, Folklore has shown a bookable table for two on 47% of the dates in its window, and the same for a party of four. It is an all-day room, and its calendar reads like one: 89% of every opening we have recorded fell before 6 PM, across a service that starts at 9:00 AM, and the slot that opens most often is 2:15 PM. The dinner hour, 7:00 to 8:30 PM, accounts for 6%.
A two-top has shown on 99% of the Thursdays we have checked; Monday has never shown one, which is a closed day rather than a hard one.
Open rate, party of two: 47%. Party of four: 43%.
Openings before 6 PM: 89%. In prime time: 6%.
Thursday, party of two: 99%. Monday: 0%.
Folklore books on Resy, with a calendar about a month deep. We have not measured a single release hour from the record, so we do not publish one; with half the calendar open at any moment, the release matters less here than at a hard room. We have recorded 36 release events.
Open Resy and book a daytime table on any day but Monday; at 99% on a Thursday it is yours this week. For a dinner at 7:30 on a weekend, watch the date and take the cancellation; that hour is the only scarce thing here. Party size makes no difference; two and four sit at the same 47%.
Come before 6 PM. 89% of openings are daytime; 2:15 PM most often.
For weekend dinner, watch the date.
No, and that is deliberate. SnagRes watches Folklore 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.
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 Nob Hill room opens 89% of its tables before 6 PM and none on a Monday, because nothing is watching it closely enough to count.
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Folklore's calendar runs about 30 days deep. At the last check a table for two was bookable on 47% of the dates in that window, so book at the release for a weekend and watch the date for a weeknight.
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