Kabawa releases reservations on OpenTable 14 days ahead. The exact hour is not confirmed yet. A table for two was open on 27% of dates, so booking ahead works.
Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 264,681 checks of Kabawa through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
Kabawa releases tables on OpenTable 14 days ahead, one new date each night. At our last check a table for two was open on 27% of the next 30 dates, and 39% of Tuesdays against far fewer weekend nights, so a Friday or Saturday usually takes a cancellation alert.
Pick a Tuesday and ask for a late seat: Tuesday shows a two-top 39% of the time and 10:00 PM opens most often. For a weekend date, be on OpenTable at the release, 14 days ahead, or watch the week and catch a cancellation.
OpenTable. It is not on Resy, so a Resy search for Kabawa finds nothing. SnagRes watches the OpenTable calendar and alerts you when a table appears; you book it on OpenTable yourself.
On the SnagRes Kabawa page, snagres.com/restaurants/kabawa, which lists every date that had a table at the last check. This guide explains the pattern behind those dates: a table for two on 27% of dates at any moment, and 32% open at some point.
Tuesday, at 39% of checks for a table for two, then Wednesday at 36%. Friday is 18%, and Sunday and Monday read 0% and 0%.
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.
Kabawa is on OpenTable, not Resy, and a table for two shows on 27% of dates at any given moment but 39% of Tuesdays, and 87% of openings come at 9 PM or later. So book a late Tuesday this week, be on OpenTable at the release for a weekend, or set an alert and take the cancellation. See Kabawa availability right now.
On a Friday or Saturday, yes. On a Tuesday, no, and that gap is the most useful thing on this page. Across 264,681 availability checks, Kabawa has shown a bookable table for two on 27% of the dates in its window and a table for four on 20%. But a two-top has shown on 39% of the Tuesdays we have checked, against 0% of Mondays. Over the whole record, 32% of dates opened at some point.
Kabawa is Paul Carmichael's Caribbean room in the East Village, and it opened to the kind of attention that fills weekend calendars for months. The weeknights are where the record says the seats are.
Open rate, party of two: 27%. Party of four: 20%.
Easiest night, party of two: Tuesday, 39% of checks.
Kabawa books on OpenTable, and a new date appears 14 days ahead. That platform is worth noting: most of the hard rooms in the East Village live on Resy, and a person checking Resy for Kabawa finds nothing because there is nothing there to find.
A midnight release rewards people who set alarms, and the two-week window means the fresh date each night is the only genuinely new inventory. We have recorded 174 release events here, most of them cancellations across the rest of the fortnight.
Release rule: 14 days ahead, one new date each night.
Late, almost always. The slot we have seen open most often is 10:00 PM, and 87% of recorded openings fell at 9 PM or later. Only 10% came before 6 PM, and the 7:00 to 8:30 PM window accounts for 2%. Openings run from 5:30 PM to 10:00 PM.
A late seating for a long, loud Caribbean dinner is not a consolation. On this calendar it is the table that exists.
9 PM or later: 87%. Prime time: 2%. Before 6 PM: 10%.
Pick a Tuesday and ask for a late seat, and Kabawa is a room you can book this week. For a weekend date, be on OpenTable at the release, 14 days ahead, or watch the week and take the cancellation, which with 174 recorded openings arrives regularly and lasts minutes. Party size barely matters: four-tops show on 20% of dates against 27% for two.
Book on OpenTable, not Resy. New dates appear 14 days ahead.
Try Tuesday. 39% of Tuesdays have shown a two-top.
Ask for 10:00 PM. Prime time is 2% of openings.
For a weekend date, watch the week rather than search it.
No, and that is deliberate. SnagRes watches Kabawa on OpenTable around the clock and tells you the moment a table appears, by email or text. You book it yourself, in your own 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 East Village room is 39% open on a Tuesday and opens 87% of its tables after 9 PM, because nothing is watching it closely enough to count.
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Kabawa releases reservations 14 days ahead, and its calendar runs about 30 days deep in our checks. At the last check a table for two was bookable on 27% of the dates in that window, so book at the release for a weekend and watch the date for a weeknight.
Because the tables that exist are gone at the drop. Across 264,681 checks, Kabawa has shown a bookable table for two on 27% of dates, though 32% of dates opened at some point. We have recorded 174 release events there. 2% 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.
Kabawa's calendar reaches 1 December on Tuesday, 17 November, and each later date follows the same rule: 14 days ahead. Hours are local to the restaurant.
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