Monkey Bar releases reservations on Resy 21 days ahead, at 9:00 AM ET. A table for two was open on 50% of dates, so booking ahead works.
Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 550,180 checks of Monkey Bar through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
“Monkey Bar accepts reservations up to 21 days in advance, with each new day becoming available at 9 AM.”
Monkey Bar releases tables on Resy only, 21 days ahead at 9 AM, one new date each morning. At our last check a table for two was open on 50% of the next 30 dates and a four-top on 47%, so beyond the release itself the seats come back as cancellations, and an alert is how you catch one.
Yes, online through Resy, up to 21 days ahead with each new day released at 9 AM, per the restaurant's own listing. 100% of the open slots we have logged were before 6 PM, with 7:00 AM the most common, so lunch is the realistic booking.
For two people at dinner, yes. On the 19 October 2026 reading, Monkey Bar showed a bookable two-top on 50% of the next 30 dates, and across 550,180 availability checks only 58,777 have found an open two-top. A four-top showed on 47% of the same 30 dates.
Four. On the same 19 October 2026 reading, a four-top was bookable on 14 of the next 30 dates while a two-top was bookable on 15. If your party is flexible, search for four first and take the extra seat.
Lunch, overwhelmingly. Of 643,567 open slots we have logged, 100% were before 6 PM, and the most frequently open time is 7:00 AM. 0% fell between 7:00 PM and 8:30 PM, and 0% were at 9 PM or later.
Early in the week. Monday came back open on 11% of checks and Tuesday on 13%, against 9% for Friday and 9% for Saturday, on comparable numbers of checks. Every night is thin, and the weekend is thinnest.
Yes, and only Resy. There is no second platform hosting its tables, so Resy is where the 9 AM drop happens and where cancellations reappear. Watching Resy at the right moments is the entire booking game for Monkey Bar.
Yes, and missing it is the normal experience. 73% of the dates we have watched opened at some point, mostly as cancellations that surface after the morning release is gone, at no fixed hour, and they are claimed within minutes. An alert that watches the calendar around the clock is what turns those into a table you can actually take.
Two ways, and this page uses both. The percentages are a point-in-time reading of the current booking window, dated 19 October 2026. The counts are cumulative: 550,180 availability checks on Monkey Bar, 643,567 logged open slots, 483 observed release events.
No. SnagRes watches Monkey Bar on Resy around the clock and alerts you by text or email the moment a table opens. You book it yourself in your own Resy account at the restaurant's own price. We never hold a table under another name and never resell one.
For the live calendar, see Monkey Bar availability right now, rechecked around the clock.
Monkey Bar releases a new date at 9:00 AM local time, 21 days ahead, on Resy. The Resy listing written by the restaurant says so in its own words: reservations up to 21 days in advance, each new day at 9 AM. Our own record agrees on the hour: across 483 release events logged on 57 separate days, 9 AM is the hour they cluster in, and the furthest date we have seen on sale is 20 days out.
Because the window rolls forward one day at a time, there is a single moment each morning when a fresh date appears at the far edge of the calendar. That moment is the whole contest, and it is a short one. By a minute past nine the night you wanted usually reads as fully booked. Monkey Bar is a clubby Midtown East room long associated with Graydon Carter, and it takes reservations on Resy only, so there is no second app to try instead.
A three-week window is a meaningfully different game from a 30-day one. It means there is no point checking in October for a table in December, and it means the date you want has exactly one first moment. Miss it and you are waiting for somebody else to change their plans.
Platform: Resy, and only Resy. No second platform is holding back tables.
Release hour: 9:00 AM local, per the restaurant and the modal hour across 483 release events we logged.
Booking window: 21 days per the restaurant's own Resy listing.
Sample behind every number here: 550,180 availability checks on Monkey Bar alone.
Hard, and harder for two than for four. On our reading of 19 October 2026, Monkey Bar had a bookable two-top on 15 of the next 30 dates, 50%, and a bookable four-top on 14 of them, 47%. Same room, same calendar, same morning.
The cumulative record fills in the rest. Across 550,180 availability checks we have found an open two-top 58,777 times, about 11% of them. Yet 73% of the dates we have watched opened at some point. So Monkey Bar is not a room that never opens. It is a room that opens narrowly and briefly, and if you ask it the standard question, a two-top at dinner, the answer is almost always no.
That makes it a different kind of hard from a restaurant like The Polo Bar, which has shown a bookable table on 0% of dates across 644,820 checks. Monkey Bar has inventory a person can actually reach. It just sits in corners of the calendar most people never search.
Party of two: 50% of the next 30 dates on the 19 October 2026 reading.
Party of four: 47% of the next 30 dates on that same reading.
Cumulative record: 58,777 open readings out of 550,180 availability checks, about 11%.
Monkey Bar, as far as its public calendar is concerned, is a lunch restaurant. Of the 643,567 open slots we have logged there, 100% were before 6 PM, and the most frequently open time of all is 7:00 AM. Only 0% of openings were at 9 PM or later.
Prime dinner almost never comes free: 0% of those sightings fell between 7:00 PM and 8:30 PM. The latest table we have seen offered is 10:30 PM. Read the slot figures for what they are: they describe the times left open when we looked, not the restaurant's service hours.
The weekday pattern is thin everywhere and thinnest at the weekend. Monday came back open on 11% of checks and Tuesday on 13%, against 9% on Friday and 9% on Saturday, each on a comparable number of checks. Nothing is easy, and the weekend is hardest.
So the bookable Monkey Bar is a weekday lunch, most often just before noon. If that is the meal you wanted, this is a far easier restaurant than its reputation suggests. If you specifically want two seats at 8 PM, our record has almost never seen that table open, and no amount of refreshing changes it.
Most frequently open slot: 7:00 AM.
Before 6 PM: 100% of everything that opened.
Prime time, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM: 0% of sightings.
At 9 PM or later: 0% of openings, with 10:30 PM the latest we have seen.
Weekdays: Monday 11%, Tuesday 13%. Weekend: Friday 9%, Saturday 9%.
Two approaches work. The first is being ready at 9:00 AM on the morning the date you want first appears, 21 days ahead, with Resy open, signed in and your party size already set. The seconds you spend tapping are the seconds the table is gone.
The second is catching a cancellation, which is how most diners get in anywhere this hard. Cancellations keep no schedule. They surface as plans change, parties shrink and deposits get reconsidered, and each freed seat is bookable by whoever sees it first, usually for minutes. A table released at 4:10 PM on a Tuesday is invisible unless something is watching Monkey Bar for it.
Before either, though, change the search. This is the rare hard restaurant where the data hands you a straightforward answer: ask for four, ask for lunch, and ask early in the week. A four-top showed on 47% of dates against 50% for a two-top, and 100% of everything that opens is before 6 PM.
Set an alarm for 9:00 AM on the morning your date first appears, 21 days out.
Ask for four before you ask for two: 47% of dates versus 50% on the same reading.
Ask for lunch, because 100% of logged openings were before 6 PM and 7:00 AM is the single most open slot.
Prefer Monday or Tuesday, which opened on 11% and 13% of checks against Saturday's 9%.
Let an alert do the waiting, because cancellations surface at hours no person can sit and refresh through.
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. Nobody watching tens of thousands of rooms can tell you that 7:00 AM is the slot Monkey Bar opens most often, or that we have logged 483 of its releases. We traded coverage for knowing the rooms we cover.
The numbers come from re-checking the same calendars around the clock, 61,530,416 availability checks so far across the tracked list, of which 550,180 are Monkey Bar. The percentages are a point-in-time reading of the current booking window, dated 19 October 2026. The counts are cumulative and only grow.
We also never book a table. SnagRes watches Monkey Bar and texts or emails you the moment one appears, and you book it yourself in your own Resy account at the restaurant's own price. No bot holds a seat under a stranger's name, and there is nothing for sale afterward. Paid reservation resale is the practice New York's 2024 reservation law was written to address, and we are not in that business.
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Monkey Bar releases reservations 21 days ahead at 9 AM, and its calendar runs about 30 days deep in our checks. At the last check a table for two was bookable on 50% of the dates in that window, so book at the release for a weekend and watch the date for a weeknight.
Monkey Bar's calendar reaches 1 December on Tuesday, 10 November at 9 AM, and each later date follows the same rule: 21 days ahead at 9 AM. Hours are local to the restaurant.
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