16% of its dates had a table open up at some point.
Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 43,141 checks of Kyoten through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
Yes. Kyoten books on OpenTable, and that is the calendar SnagRes watches.
It publishes no release time. Its calendar ran about 30 days ahead in our checks.
Wednesday, in our early checks. Chicago joined our tracker in late September 2026, so this may shift.
Yes. SnagRes texts you the moment one opens on a date you picked.
Kyoten publishes no release time. Its OpenTable calendar ran about 30 days ahead in our checks, and the openings we saw came only at 6:30 PM.
Yes, with planning. At our reading on 19 October 2026, 0% of dates had a seat for two, and 16% had one open up at some point in our checks. Wednesday was the night seats showed up most often.
One caution on the data: Chicago only joined SnagRes in late September 2026. The figures rest on a few weeks of checks and will move as the record grows.
Book the moment a date you can make comes into the window, and favor midweek. For the nights you miss, set an alert, because one cancellation is all it takes to free a seat.
SnagRes checks Kyoten's OpenTable calendar continuously and texts you when a seat opens. You book it yourself; we never book, hold or resell anything.
Kyoten's OpenTable booking window, the nights seats showed up in our early Chicago checks, and how to catch a cancellation.
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Kyoten's calendar runs about 30 days deep. 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 43,141 checks, Kyoten has shown a bookable table for two on 0% of dates, though 16% of dates opened at some point. We have recorded 5 release events there. 0% 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.
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