The best time to book a Seoul restaurant, from 1,543 real openings
When tables actually appear on CatchTable at 14 Seoul restaurants, and how long you have once one does.
- 1,543 openings measured
- Last 90 days, refreshed nightly
- Busiest seatings
- Most openings are for the 12 PM and 6 PM seatings. Check those first.
- Same-day tables
- Only 2% of openings were for the same day, so Seoul rewards booking ahead and watching early.
- How fast
- Some tables last minutes, others hours; the fast table below shows which. Book the moment you are told.
When tables open, by hour and by day
These tables count the tables that appeared and were later taken, grouped by the seating they were for and the weekday they were for. They show where your chance is, not when it appears on a clock.
Share of all openings by the seating hour (local time).
| Seating | Share of openings |
|---|---|
| 12 PM | 34% |
| 1 PM | 8% |
| 3 PM | 1% |
| 4 PM | 1% |
| 5 PM | 4% |
| 6 PM | 33% |
| 7 PM | 16% |
| 8 PM | 3% |
Share of all openings by the day the table was for.
| Day | Share of openings |
|---|---|
| Sunday | 4% |
| Monday | 5% |
| Tuesday | 15% |
| Wednesday | 24% |
| Thursday | 18% |
| Friday | 18% |
| Saturday | 16% |
Where same-day tables appear most: share of a restaurant's openings that were for that same night.
| Restaurant | Same-day share | Typical table lasts |
|---|---|---|
| Onjium Restaurant | 15% | about 4 minutes |
| Restaurant EVETT | 4% | about 16 hours |
| San | 2% | about 50 minutes |
| Mingles | 1% | about 3 minutes |
| SOUL | 1% | about 4 hours |
| Kwonsooksoo | 1% | about 11 hours |
| Y'east | 1% | about 5 hours |
| JUNGSIK | 1% | about 2.2 hours |
| MOSU Seoul | 0% | about 5 minutes |
| Eatanic Garden | 0% | about 2 minutes |
| 7th Door | 0% | about 15 hours |
| ZEST | 0% | about 2.7 hours |
Where you must be fastest: the typical time a table stayed bookable.
| Restaurant | Typical table lasts | Gone within 5 minutes |
|---|---|---|
| Eatanic Garden | about 2 minutes | 59% |
| Mingles | about 3 minutes | 58% |
| Onjium Restaurant | about 4 minutes | 52% |
| MOSU Seoul | about 5 minutes | 51% |
| San | about 50 minutes | 9% |
| JUNGSIK | about 2.2 hours | 6% |
| ZEST | about 2.7 hours | 6% |
| SOUL | about 4 hours | 5% |
| Y'east | about 5 hours | 5% |
| Kwonsooksoo | about 11 hours | 0% |
| 7th Door | about 15 hours | 0% |
| Restaurant EVETT | about 16 hours | 0% |
Proprietary data: Table Alert checks each restaurant's public booking calendar around the clock; these figures cover the last 90 days, through November 11, 2026, vouched restaurants only, and are refreshed every night.
How to read these tables
The hour table says which seating you can win. In Seoul the weight sits on lunch at noon and dinner at 6 PM. Late seatings after 8 PM are rare.
The day table says which weekday the table was for, not the day it opened. Mid-week seatings take the biggest share and Sunday and Monday the smallest.
Same-day tables are tables that opened for that same evening. In Seoul they are the exception, so planning a week or two ahead and watching for openings beats a last-minute search.
Typical table lasts is the middle of how long a table stayed bookable. Under 5 minutes means you need an instant notification, not a daily check.
What to do with it
- Pick your seating first. Noon and 6 PM have the most openings.
- Wednesday carries the most openings (24%); every day except Sunday and Monday carries 15% or more; watch the days you can travel.
- Turn on alerts for the restaurants near the top of the fast table. Those are the ones where minutes decide it.
- Book on the restaurant's own CatchTable page, in English through CatchTable Global if you are a visitor.
Many restaurants also release a month or a day at a time at a published hour. Those hours are on each restaurant's guide where we have one; for example, Mingles in Cheongdam opens a month at 2 PM Seoul time.
Observed, not published: 7th Door, Kwonsooksoo and JUNGSIK usually get new dates around 12:00 AM Seoul time, EVETT around 12:05 AM. Release rules are on /platforms/catchtable-seoul.
What we measure, and what we do not
Table Alert checks each restaurant's public CatchTable calendar around the clock. An opening is a table that appeared and was later taken, counted once. Times are Seoul time. We do not know why a table was released.
14 of the 14 Seoul restaurants we watch have 90 clean days; the tables count those, not the whole city.
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The best time to book a Seoul restaurant, from 1,543 real openings: questions people ask
We cannot see when a person gives a table back, only when it appears on the calendar. What the data shows is which seating the opened table was for: most are for noon and 6 PM, so watch those seatings.
Sometimes, but rarely. Across the restaurants we measure only 2% of openings were for the same day. Some venues lean same-day more than others; the same-day table above lists them.
Mid-week. Wednesday to Friday carry the biggest shares of openings in our data, while Sunday and Monday carry the smallest we cannot see why.
Across all openings the middle table lasted 2.4 hours, but it varies a lot by restaurant. For the fastest few it is a couple of minutes, so notifications on your phone matter more than a daily look.
Many do, a month or a day at a time, at a fixed hour set by the restaurant. We list those hours on each restaurant's guide and note which ones we have observed ourselves.
On CatchTable. Visitors use CatchTable Global, the English version, which takes foreign cards for deposits and lets you sign in with Google or Apple, as the Korea Tourism Organization describes on a page last updated in September 2024.
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Sources and how this page is made
Written by Jacob, founder of Table Alert. Facts checked against the sources below on November 12, 2026 and re-checked every night, last on . The monitoring numbers are Table Alert's own, refreshed every night (latest: November 11, 2026). Out of date? Tell us.
- Table Alert monitoring (proprietary)
- Korea Tourism Organization: CatchTable Global (page last updated September 2024)
- CatchTable Global: Mingles, reservation notices
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