Ramen By Ra releases reservations on Resy on the 1st & 15th of the month, at 9:00 AM ET. 16% of its dates had a table open up at some point.
Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 642,092 checks of Ramen By Ra through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
“Reservations are released at 9 AM on the 1st and 15th of each month.”
Be on Resy at 9:00 AM with your card saved and want a daytime seat. In 642,092 checks we have recorded 9 openings, all of them between 9:00 AM and 3:30 PM.
The seats we have seen appear did so at 9:00 AM, on Resy.
Not in our record. Every recorded opening was before 6 PM. If a dinner seat ever reappears, an alert is the only realistic way to know.
No. Both party sizes sit at 0%.
No. SnagRes watches the calendar and alerts you by email or text the moment a seat appears. You book it yourself, in your own account, at the restaurant's own price. We never hold, resell or charge per reservation.
As hard as any room we track, and the record is unusually blunt about it. Across 642,092 availability checks, Ramen By Ra has shown a bookable table for two on 0% of the dates in its window, and the same for a party of four. We have recorded 9 release events in the whole history of watching it, where a room like Somssi a few blocks west has given us more than two hundred.
This is a small counter serving a set number of bowls, and the calendar behaves like a ticket window rather than a dining room. There is no drip of cancellations to catch. There is a release, it sells out, and that is the day.
Open rate, any party size: 0%.
Ramen By Ra books on Resy, and the seats we have seen appear did so at 9:00 AM. The calendar shows a full 30-day window, but a full window is not the same as an open one: the dates exist and are booked.
Every opening we have ever recorded here was a daytime seating. The recorded openings run from 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM, and 100% of them fell before 6 PM. If you are hoping for a dinner seat to reappear, our record has never once shown one.
Release time: 9:00 AM, on the occasions we have seen seats appear.
Every recorded opening was between 9:00 AM and 3:30 PM.
Be on Resy at 9:00 AM with your card saved and want lunch. That is the only route the record supports. The counter releases a small number of seats, they go to the people who were ready, and the calendar closes for the day.
The honest use of an alert here is different from a room like Via Carota. There is no cancellation flow to catch. What an alert gives you is the 9 AM moment itself, on the rare day it produces a seat, without having to sit on the page every morning for a month. Three recorded openings in 642,092 checks is the whole of the opportunity, and a person cannot watch for it by hand.
Book on Resy at 9:00 AM. Bring a saved card and a lunch appetite.
Dinner seats have never reappeared in our record.
Party size does not matter. Two and four sit at the same 0%.
Let something watch it for you; the openings are too rare to catch by hand.
No, and that is deliberate. SnagRes watches Ramen By Ra on Resy around the clock and tells you the moment a seat 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, 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 ramen counter has opened three times in 642,092 checks and only ever at lunch, because nothing is watching it closely enough to count. Where the record is thin, as it is here, we say so rather than round it into a tip.
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Ramen By Ra releases reservations 1st & 15th of month 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 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 642,092 checks, Ramen By Ra has shown a bookable table for two on 0% of dates, though 16% of dates opened at some point. We have recorded 9 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.
SnagRes watches Ramen By Ra, along with 283 more hard-to-book restaurants in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago, and alerts you when a table opens. Watching one is free and no card is needed: Ramen By Ra reservations, or NYC dinner reservations, live, or last-minute tables in NYC tonight.