Red Hook Tavern releases reservations on OpenTable 14 days ahead. The exact hour is not confirmed yet. 35% of its dates had a table open up at some point.
Last updated . Source: SnagRes availability record, 245,764 checks of Red Hook Tavern through 19 October 2026. How we measure. Open dataset.
“We accept reservations for parties of up to eight people, two weeks in advance.”
Red Hook Tavern books on OpenTable 14 days ahead, and it does not publish a release hour; in our record new dates tend to appear around midnight. At our last check a table for two was open on 7% of the next 30 dates, mostly midweek, so a weekend table takes a cancellation alert.
The tavern does not publish an hour, only that it takes reservations two weeks in advance. We have observed 332 release events across 59 separate days and they cluster around midnight local time. That is a measured tendency rather than a guarantee, and we update this page when we catch a change.
Aim midweek and check as the calendar turns over. Most of the openings we have logged fell Monday through Thursday, and Thursday is the best night at 3% of checks. If your date is fixed, especially a weekend one, plan on a cancellation instead and let an alert catch it, since freed seats at a room this small last minutes.
On a weekend, extremely. We have checked Saturday dates 35,005 times and found a table on 43 of them. Midweek is a different story: Thursday shows 920 openings in 34,930 checks. The current 30-day window reads 7% for two and 3% for four.
Thursday, then Tuesday. Thursday gave us 920 open date-checks out of 34,930 and Tuesday 747 out of 35,304, against 265 on Friday and 43 on Saturday. Choosing the night is the single biggest lever a diner has here, and it costs nothing.
At the ends of service. Of the 7,540 open slots we have logged, 54% were before 6 PM and 36% at 9 PM or later, and 9:30 PM is the most common. The 7 PM to 8:30 PM stretch accounts for 5%.
No. Red Hook Tavern books on OpenTable, for parties of up to eight, two weeks in advance. It does not book on any other platform we track, so OpenTable is where the release happens and where cancellations reappear.
At no fixed hour. They surface as guests change plans and parties shrink, and each freed seat goes to whoever sees it first, usually within minutes at a room this size. That is why cancellations are the realistic path to a prime-time or weekend table here, and why an alert beats refreshing by hand.
No. We watch Red Hook Tavern continuously and send you an email or text with a link the second a table opens, and you complete the booking yourself on OpenTable. SnagRes never books, holds or resells a reservation, which is a deliberate difference from services that charge a fee per successful booking.
For the live calendar, see Red Hook Tavern availability right now, rechecked around the clock.
Red Hook Tavern is very hard to book on a weekend and quietly possible midweek, and the gap between those two sentences is the most useful thing on this page. Across 245,764 checks of its OpenTable calendar, a bookable two-top came back on 3,675 of them. In the current 30-day window it was open on 7% of the dates for two and 3% for four.
Those two figures describe different things and both are worth having. The window reading tells you what a person tapping through the calendar right now would find, which is very little. The all-time figure tells you that seats do exist, they are just rare and they are not distributed the way most people assume.
The tavern is an American room in Red Hook from Billy Durney of Hometown Bar-B-Que, known for a dry-aged burger and chops, and it books on OpenTable 14 days ahead. A small dining room with a national reputation and a two-week horizon is a recipe for exactly this shape of data: almost nothing openly bookable, but with a signature you can play against once you know it.
Midweek, early or late, and almost never on a weekend. Thursday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Monday account for most of the open date-checks we have logged, while Friday and Saturday together barely register. That is not a rounding difference, it is the whole pattern.
Saturday is the extreme case. We have checked Saturday dates 35,005 times and found a table on 43 of them. Friday runs 265 opens across 34,886 checks, and Sunday 297 in 35,237. Thursday is the best night we have measured, with 920 opens in 34,930 checks, and Tuesday is close behind at 747.
So if you want this room and you are flexible about the night, pick a Tuesday or a Thursday and you are playing a different game from the person holding out for Saturday at eight.
Thursday: 920 open date-checks out of 34,930. The best night in our data.
Tuesday: 747 out of 35,304. Wednesday: 731 out of 34,925. Monday: 672 out of 35,477.
Sunday: 297 out of 35,237. Friday: 265 out of 34,886. Saturday: 43 out of 35,005.
Party size does not help. The current window reads 7% for a two-top and 3% for a four-top.
At the two ends of service, not in the middle. We have logged 7,540 open time slots at the tavern, and the single most frequently open slot is 9:30 PM, which is also the latest seating we have seen offered there. That is what it looks like when the seats nobody wants are the seats that go unsold.
36% of everything that opens is 9 PM or later. Another 54% is before 6 PM. The stretch most people are actually asking for, 7:00 PM through 8:30 PM, accounts for 5% of the open slots we have recorded.
The practical reading is blunt. An early or late Red Hook Tavern table is a realistic goal. A 7:30 PM table is a lottery ticket, and one you should expect to win by cancellation rather than by planning.
9:30 PM is the most common opening and the latest seating we have seen open.
Before 6 PM: 54% of open slots. 9 PM or later: 36%.
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM: 5% of open slots. The earliest seating we have seen open is 12:00 PM.
Two weeks ahead, on OpenTable. The tavern says so itself: it accepts reservations for parties of up to eight, two weeks in advance. It does not publish a release hour. In our own record, 332 release events across 59 separate days cluster around midnight local time, so a date two weeks out tends to become bookable as the day turns over, not during business hours.
That makes the turn of the day, 14 days ahead of the night you want, a moment worth checking, particularly if that night is midweek, where our numbers say the openings actually live.
Treat the clustering as a measured tendency rather than a promise. Restaurants adjust their release settings without announcing it. When we catch a change, this page changes.
Two paths, and the data says which one to lead with. Check OpenTable as the day turns over, 14 days before a midweek date, with your party size already set. Or wait for a cancellation and be the first to hear about it.
Cancellations are what fill the gap between the tavern release schedule and its thin window reading. They surface at no fixed hour, as plans change and parties shrink, and at a room this size the freed seat is claimed in minutes. That is the part no person can cover by hand. Nobody refreshes a booking page every few minutes for fourteen days.
SnagRes watches Red Hook Tavern on OpenTable around the clock and emails or texts you the moment a table opens. We do not book it. You get the alert and the link, and you make the reservation yourself, in your own name. That is a deliberate line: services that charge for the booking itself are attaching a fee to a restaurant seat, which is the practice New York wrote its 2024 reservation law to stop.
Target a Monday through Thursday date. Those four nights hold most of the openings we have recorded.
Check OpenTable around midnight, 14 days before your date, with party size and time preselected.
Search the ends of service first. Early evening and 9:30 PM are where the seats are.
For a 7 to 8:30 PM weekend table, plan on a cancellation rather than on the release, since prime slots are 5% of everything we see open.
Put a watch on the date so a cancellation reaches you in seconds instead of being found by whoever happened to be refreshing.
Because the list is short on purpose. We watch 284 restaurants and we re-check them continuously, which comes to 61,530,416 availability checks so far. No service covering tens of thousands of restaurants can tell you that a specific tavern in Brooklyn opens midweek, at 9:30 PM, and essentially never on a Saturday.
The same method produces very different pictures across rooms that all look impossible from the outside. Una Pizza Napoletana, also on OpenTable, showed a table on 0% of dates across 208,858 checks. Jeju Noodle Bar puts 39% of its openings at 9 PM or later. The Eighty Six showed a table on 0% of dates across 266,486 checks.
Red Hook Tavern sits in the middle of that range, which is the genuinely actionable end of it. It is not a room you cannot get into. It is a room you get into on a Tuesday at 5 PM or a Thursday at 9:30 PM, or by hearing about a cancellation before anyone else does.
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Red Hook Tavern 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 7% 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 245,764 checks, Red Hook Tavern has shown a bookable table for two on 7% of dates, though 35% of dates opened at some point. We have recorded 332 release events there. 5% 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.
Red Hook Tavern'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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