The hardest reservations in Seoul, ranked by data
Not a list of opinions: Seoul restaurants we watch around the clock, ranked by how rarely a table opens and how fast it goes.
- 14 Seoul restaurants measured
- Last 90 days, refreshed nightly
- How this is ranked
- By days in the last 90 with any table open, fewest first, then by how fast the typical table went.
- What counts
- 14 of the 14 Seoul restaurants we watch have 90 clean days; the table shows those.
- Where they book
- Every restaurant here takes bookings on CatchTable, which has an English version for visitors.
The ranking
Fewest days with an open table first. A restaurant near the top had a table on fewer of the last 90 days.
Ranked by bookable time: the share of the last 90 days during which at least one table, for any date and any party size, was open on the public calendar. Least first; ties by how fast the typical table went. Restaurants we monitor in full (every party size, every date, every day).
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1
JUNGDAE CatchTable
- Bookable time
- 6.0 h
- Share of the time
- 0.28%
- Days with a table
- 9
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2
Eatanic Garden CatchTable
- Bookable time
- 2.3 days
- Share of the time
- 2.6%
- Typical table lasts
- about 2 minutes
- Days with a table
- 69
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3
Mingles CatchTable
- Bookable time
- 5.7 days
- Share of the time
- 6.4%
- Typical table lasts
- about 3 minutes
- Days with a table
- 78
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4
Onjium Restaurant CatchTable
- Bookable time
- 6.6 days
- Share of the time
- 7.3%
- Typical table lasts
- about 4 minutes
- Days with a table
- 65
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5
GiwaKang CatchTable
- Bookable time
- 15.1 days
- Share of the time
- 17%
- Days with a table
- 8
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6
San CatchTable
- Bookable time
- 45.8 days
- Share of the time
- 51%
- Typical table lasts
- about 50 minutes
- Days with a table
- 87
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7
MOSU Seoul CatchTable
- Bookable time
- 46.2 days
- Share of the time
- 51%
- Typical table lasts
- about 5 minutes
- Days with a table
- 90
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8
Y'east CatchTable
- Bookable time
- 65.8 days
- Share of the time
- 73%
- Typical table lasts
- about 5 hours
- Days with a table
- 69
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9
SOUL CatchTable
- Bookable time
- 73.3 days
- Share of the time
- 81%
- Typical table lasts
- about 4 hours
- Days with a table
- 77
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10
ZEST CatchTable
- Bookable time
- 79.0 days
- Share of the time
- 88%
- Typical table lasts
- about 2.7 hours
- Days with a table
- 90
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11
JUNGSIK CatchTable
- Bookable time
- 90.0 days
- Share of the time
- 100%
- Typical table lasts
- about 2.2 hours
- Days with a table
- 90
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12
Kwonsooksoo CatchTable
- Bookable time
- 90.0 days
- Share of the time
- 100%
- Typical table lasts
- about 11 hours
- Days with a table
- 89
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13
7th Door CatchTable
- Bookable time
- 90.0 days
- Share of the time
- 100%
- Typical table lasts
- about 15 hours
- Days with a table
- 73
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14
Restaurant EVETT CatchTable
- Bookable time
- 90.0 days
- Share of the time
- 100%
- Typical table lasts
- about 16 hours
- Days with a table
- 86
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 the table
Days with a table counts the days on which at least one table appeared on the restaurant's public CatchTable calendar and was later taken. Typical table lasts is how long the middle table stayed bookable once it appeared.
The two columns answer different questions. Days says how often your chance comes. Lasts says how fast you must be when it does.
A high days count is not an easy booking. MOSU Seoul showed a table on every one of the 90 days, yet the typical one lasted about 5 minutes (as of November 11, 2026). These are openings outside any regular release; we cannot see why a table appeared.
Dates open ahead is how far into the future the calendar reached at the last check.
What it means if you want a table
- Low days, short lifetime: Eatanic Garden opened a table on 69 of the last 90 days, and the typical one was gone in about 2 minutes (as of November 11, 2026). Alerts matter most here.
- High days, long lifetime: a venue where tables stay for hours or a day can be booked after you read the alert. A phone notification is enough.
- Same-day tables are rare in Seoul: across the whole city, 2% of openings were for that same day.
Across 14 restaurants we recorded 1,543 openings in the window, and the typical one was gone in 2.4 hours.
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. We count tables on the public calendar; we do not know why a restaurant released them.
A restaurant's own booking rule, such as a monthly release at a set hour, is stated on its restaurant guide. Where a restaurant has a guide on Table Alert, the table links to it.
14 of the 14 Seoul restaurants we watch have 90 clean days, and the table shows those. The rest, and rooms we do not watch, are missing: a limit of our data, not a verdict on them.
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The hardest reservations in Seoul, ranked by data: questions people ask
By our measure it is the restaurant with the fewest days on which any table opened over the last 90 days, shown first in the table. The ranking updates nightly and covers only restaurants we have monitored for 90 clean days.
Yes. Every figure comes from Table Alert's own monitoring of the restaurants' public CatchTable calendars, refreshed every night. No editorial opinion decides the order. We say plainly which restaurants are left out and why.
Many openings fall outside any regular release, mostly for 12 PM and 6 PM seatings; we cannot see why a table appeared. A restaurant can show a table every day and still be hard, because the typical table is gone in minutes.
Yes. All 14 restaurants in the table book on CatchTable. Visitors use CatchTable Global, the English version, while locals use the Korean app. Table Alert watches 14 Seoul restaurants in all; the others are not yet in this ranking.
It depends on the restaurant. The table shows how far ahead each calendar reaches and how long the typical table lasts. Some open a table on most days and sell it again within minutes; others, like 7th Door, keep it for hours.
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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: MOSU Seoul, details and policies
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