Kokkari Estiatorio releases reservations on OpenTable 30 days ahead. The exact hour is not confirmed yet. A table for two was open on 100% of dates, so booking ahead works.
Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 257,252 checks of Kokkari Estiatorio through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
Book it on OpenTable. Kokkari had a bookable two-top on 29 of the next 30 dates, 100%, so on almost any date there is something to take. Plan ahead only for the tight version, which is a 7:00 to 8:30 PM seat on a Friday or Saturday, especially for four or more.
Kokkari books on OpenTable across a rolling window of about 30 days, and that is the only platform holding its tables. Because the calendar was open on 29 of 30 dates, booking is usually one search. For a prime weekend night, reserve the day that date enters the window.
Not as hard as its reputation. Kokkari showed a bookable two-top on 30 of 30 dates and a four-top on 27, across 257,252 availability checks. What is hard is a specific prime-time seat on a weekend, since only 17% of the 2,874,208 open slots we have logged fall between 7:00 and 8:30 PM.
Kokkari Estiatorio sits in Jackson Square in San Francisco and books on OpenTable about 30 days out. On 29 of the 30 dates we tracked it had a bookable table, so a reservation is usually there for the taking. The open times skew early, with 5:15 PM the slot most often left open.
We logged 21 release events at Kokkari across 18 observed days, and they cluster in the 8 PM hour local time. That is a measured pattern rather than a published policy, and roughly one release a day is a calendar edge rolling forward, not a drop to race. With the calendar open on 29 of 30 dates, you do not need to catch it.
Early or late. Forty-one percent of Kokkari's logged openings are before 6 PM and 21% are at 9 PM or later, and 5:15 PM is the single most frequently open slot at 7,397 sightings. The 7:00 to 8:30 PM band accounts for 17%, so prime time exists but clears first.
At random hours, as plans change and parties shrink, and they matter most for prime time. The everyday calendar is open on 29 of 30 dates, so you rarely need one. If you want a fixed 7:00 to 8:30 PM weekend seat, a freed table is usually how you get it, and an alert is how you hear about it while it is still there.
Kokkari books on OpenTable, and only OpenTable, on a rolling window of about 30 days. Its own reservations page adds one route the app does not carry, which is that the phone books up to 60 days ahead. SnagRes watches the OpenTable listing and notifies you by text or email when a table opens, which is useful when you want a particular hour rather than any hour.
Kokkari, by a wide margin. Kokkari showed a bookable two-top on 100% of the dates in its window against 17% for Quince, which is a few hundred meters away in the same neighborhood. Quince is the better bet for a party of four, where it reads 40%, but Kokkari is open on nearly every date at either party size.
No, and we can put a number on it. On our reading of 19 October 2026, Kokkari Estiatorio had a bookable two-top on 30 of the 30 dates in its OpenTable window, 100%, and a bookable four-top on 27 of them, 100%. A room with that calendar is not a room you have to outwit. It is a room you have to pick an hour for.
That reading is not one glance at the app. We have run 257,252 availability checks against the Kokkari calendar, and 214,680 of them came back with a bookable two-top somewhere in the room, close to one check in four. The everyday state of this restaurant, measured continuously rather than remembered, is open.
Its reputation says the opposite, so it is worth splitting the question in two. Getting a table at Kokkari is easy. Getting one particular table, 7:30 PM on a Saturday for four, is a different question with a different answer, and the rest of this page is about the gap between them.
Kokkari is a Greek and Mediterranean dining room in Jackson Square, and OpenTable is the only platform its tables sit on. One route is not on the app, though. An archived version of the restaurant's own reservations page says the phone books up to 60 days ahead while OpenTable carries 30, so a month of inventory exists that no calendar we scan can see.
Two-top availability: 30 of 30 dates, 100%, on the 19 October 2026 reading.
Four-top availability: 30 of 30 dates, 100%, on the same reading.
Sample behind those figures: 257,252 availability checks on Kokkari alone, 214,680 of which found a bookable two-top.
Platform: OpenTable, and only OpenTable, on a rolling 30-day window, though its own page puts phone bookings at 60 days.
Kokkari books about 30 days ahead on OpenTable, and the far edge of that window moves forward one date at a time. The furthest bookable night we could see was 29 days out, which is the ceiling of what we scan, so treat it as at least that far. A night you cannot see yet becomes reachable roughly a month before you eat.
On the release hour, we will give you what we logged and the sample it came from. We have recorded 21 separate release events at Kokkari across 18 of the days we watched it, and the hour they cluster in is 8 PM local time. Twenty-one events spread over eighteen days is about one a day, which is what a calendar edge rolling quietly forward looks like.
Compare that with a genuinely contested room. Carbone logged 300 release events in 22 observed days and Monkey Bar logged 273, because at those restaurants a date flickers open and shut over and over as people grab and release seats. Kokkari's edge is quiet because almost nothing is fighting over it.
The practical consequence is that there is no drop here worth setting an alarm for. The soonest bookable date on our reading was the very next day. Book the night you want as soon as it enters the window, and if it is already inside the window, book it now rather than waiting for something better to appear.
Release hour: 8 PM local, the modal hour across 21 logged release events on 18 separate days.
Booking window: about 30 days, with the furthest bookable date we saw 29 days out.
Soonest bookable date on the reading: 1 day out, which is the opposite of a lottery.
No alarm required, because the calendar is open on 29 of 30 dates without one.
The hour, not the table. Of the 2,874,208 open slots we have logged at Kokkari, 37% fall in the 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM stretch most people ask for first. Forty-one percent are before 6 PM and 21% are 9 PM or later. The single time most often left open is 5:15 PM, which by itself accounts for 7,397 of those sightings, roughly one in six.
The full range we have seen offered runs from 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM, so nothing here is a consolation-prize midnight table. The early seats are real dinner, just earlier than you planned, and the 8:00 PM slot does turn up: it is the second most frequently open time in our record at 5,432 sightings. It simply goes first and goes fastest.
The weekday pattern is the surprise. Across our full record, Monday returned a two-top on 30,210 of 37,205 checks, 18%, and Thursday on 1,859 of 7,233, 26%. Saturday sat at 24%. Eight points separate the best night from the worst, which is why our own builder refuses to name an easiest or a hardest day here. The gap is not wide enough to be a finding. At Quince, a few hundred meters away in the same neighborhood, Thursday runs 63% and Saturday 19%.
Party size moves the odds more than the day does, and it moves them in the direction you would expect. Twenty-nine of 30 dates for two, 27 for four. That is the reverse of the pattern at New York's hardest rooms, where the four-top calendar is the open one: Carbone reads 0% for two and 10% for four, Monkey Bar 50% for two and 47% for four. At Kokkari the smaller table is the easier ask, and a large group at prime time on a weekend is the booking that needs a plan.
Prime time, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM: 17% of 2,874,208 logged openings.
Before 6 PM: 54%, with 5:15 PM the most frequently open slot at 7,397 sightings.
At 9 PM or later: 29%. Earliest slot ever offered 5:00 PM, latest 10:00 PM.
Weekday spread: Monday 81% to Thursday 85%, flat enough that no night here deserves to be called hard.
Party of four: open on 27 of 30 dates against 29 for a two-top, so groups lose a little ground, not all of it.
Open OpenTable and book the night you want. On 29 of the next 30 dates there was something available, so the fastest route is to take a table that exists instead of waiting for a better one to appear. If your night sits beyond the window, note the day it rolls in and book it then.
Decide in advance which you care about more, the date or the hour, because at Kokkari you can usually have one of them without a fight. A fixed Thursday is nearly free. A fixed 7:30 PM on a Saturday for six is the version that competes, and that is the version worth preparing for by booking the moment the date enters the window.
If your hour is not negotiable, the honest advice is to let something watch for you. Prime seats at Kokkari do come back, because plans change and parties shrink, and a table freed at 4:10 PM on a Tuesday is invisible unless something is checking. SnagRes watches Kokkari on OpenTable and texts or emails you when one opens, and then you book it yourself.
Check OpenTable first, because there was a bookable table on 29 of the next 30 dates.
Take an early or late seat for the widest choice, since 54% of openings are before 6 PM and 5:15 PM is the most frequently open slot of all.
Book a prime weekend night the day it enters the rolling 30-day window, not the week of.
Ask for four only when you need four, because the four-top calendar is slightly tighter here at 27 of 30 dates.
Set an alert for the hard version only: a fixed hour, a fixed night, or a larger party.
Two restaurants in Jackson Square, and their calendars are nothing alike. Quince, on SevenRooms, showed a bookable two-top on 12 of 30 dates, 40%, and a four-top on 13, 40%. Kokkari showed 29 and 27 on the same day. Same neighborhood, same dinner hour, completely different problem to solve.
Across town in SoMa, Niku Steakhouse reads 83% for two and 73% for four on OpenTable, and its most frequently open slot is 7:30 PM, which is exactly the hour Kokkari gives up first. If prime time on a specific night is what you actually want, that difference matters more than either restaurant's reputation does.
In SoMa, Benu reads 30% on SevenRooms, and our record shows no openings there on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday: 38,918 checks on a Sunday and 39,071 on a Monday have never once returned a table. Kokkari's Sunday runs 23%. A room being shut is not a room being hard, and telling those two apart takes months of checking the same calendar rather than a guess from a booking forum.
The useful way to read all of this is as a menu of trade-offs. You can have the neighborhood, or the hour, or the night, and at Kokkari you can usually have two of the three. That is a better position than most of the list we track is in.
Quince, Jackson Square, SevenRooms: 17% for two, 40% for four.
Niku Steakhouse, SoMa, OpenTable: 83% for two, 73% for four, most frequently open slot 7:30 PM.
Benu, SoMa, SevenRooms: 30% for two, no openings on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday across 38,918 Sunday and 39,071 Monday checks.
Kokkari, Jackson Square, OpenTable: 100% for two, 100% for four, most frequently open slot 5:15 PM.
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. Table Alert advertises 62,198 restaurants. Nobody watching 62,198 rooms can tell you that Kokkari's most frequently open slot is 5:15 PM, that its weekday spread is only eight points wide, or that its four-top calendar is two dates tighter than its two-top calendar. We gave up coverage in exchange for knowing the rooms we cover.
Every figure here comes from re-checking the same calendar around the clock: 61,530,416 availability checks so far across the tracked list, of which 257,252 are Kokkari. When a number on this page changes, it changes because the restaurant changed, not because somebody rewrote a sentence to sound more urgent.
We also never book a table. SnagRes watches Kokkari and tells you the moment a seat appears, and then you book it yourself, in your own OpenTable account, at the restaurant's own price. There is no bot holding a seat under a stranger's name and nothing for sale afterward. TableSwap charges $75 per successful reservation, which is the paid resale practice New York's 2024 reservation law was written to address, and we are not in that business.
The upshot is plain. The reservation is in your name from the first second, the restaurant keeps its own cancellation policy intact, and nothing happens to the table until you tap to confirm it.
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Kokkari Estiatorio releases reservations 30 days ahead, and its calendar runs about 30 days deep in our checks. At the last check a table for two was bookable on 100% of the dates in that window, so booking a few days ahead is usually enough.
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