Clemente Bar Reservations: Resy 3 Weeks Out, Walk-Ins, Studio

Clemente Bar is the cocktail bar one floor above Eleven Madison Park, at 11 Madison Avenue on the northeast corner of East 24th Street, across from Madison Square Park. Daniel Humm opened it with the painter Francesco Clemente in late 2024, and the room is hung with Clemente’s work, including 17-foot-long murals and a ceiling fresco. It has two rooms that book separately: The Lounge, an à la carte cocktail room that also takes walk-ins, and The Studio, a nine-seat counter where the sushi chef Eiji Ichimura is serving an omakase through the end of 2026. North America’s 50 Best Bars ranked Clemente Bar No. 11 in 2025 and No. 15 in 2026, and its early-evening tables go quickly. This guide covers how both rooms book as of November 2026: the platform, the three-week window and its likely hour, the walk-in line, the fees, and a worked date.

Is Clemente Bar on Resy?

Yes, both rooms, on two separate Resy pages. The bar’s website has two reservation buttons. THE LOUNGE opens the Resy page called Clemente Bar, and THE STUDIO opens a second page, The Studio at Clemente Bar, whose web address ends in clemente-bar-tasting-counter. Searching the Lounge page will never show you a Studio seat, and the reverse is also true, so start on the right one. The bar lists a phone number, 212.889.0905, and info@clementebar.com for questions about a reservation you already hold, but it does not offer the phone as a way to book, and nothing it publishes points to OpenTable, SevenRooms or Tock. Resy takes parties of up to six; for anything bigger, the FAQ sends you to the private events manager at events@elevenmadisonpark.com. Dinner downstairs is a third, separate book with very different rules, covered in Eleven Madison Park reservations.

When do Clemente Bar reservations open?

Three weeks ahead, one date at a time, most likely at 10am Eastern. The bar’s own words, from its FAQ: “We open reservations for The Lounge and Studio experiences on a rolling basis, three weeks in advance.” It gives no hour. Resy’s editorial site does: in a December 2024 interview with the bar’s general manager at the time, it wrote that reservations open “three weeks in advance at 10 a.m.” AutoRes, a booking-bot site, gives the same rule as 21 days at 10am. damnlines, a line-tracking site, repeats the three weeks without an hour. Nobody contradicts 10am, but the only first-hand source for it is two years old, and I could not open the live Resy calendar to confirm it, so treat it as the likely hour and check it once yourself.

A worked example. Say you want a Lounge table on Friday, December 18, 2026. Count back 21 days and you land on Friday, November 27, the day after Thanksgiving, so be on the Resy page that morning before 10am, signed in, party size chosen, with a card saved. To settle both the hour and the count, look at the furthest date on the calendar at 9:55am and again at 10:01am on any morning. If a new date has appeared, the release is 10am, and the new date tells you whether three weeks means 21 days out or 20. If it means 20, December 18 opens a day later, on Saturday, November 28. Each date opens once, so a missed morning costs you that date, though the next morning brings the next one.

How fast Clemente Bar fills

The early evening goes first. Gabriela Sosa, the general manager Resy interviewed in 2024, said the prime slots at 5pm, 6pm and 7pm could all fill within a day of opening, and that the bar ran about 80% of the Lounge on reservations and kept about 20% for walk-ins. The Lounge then had 38 seats including the bar, and she put Resy’s Notify list for a given night at “anywhere from 100 to 300” people, depending on the day. The bar’s team page now lists a different general manager, Gabriel Di Bella, so read those numbers as the 2024 picture rather than today’s policy. The hours explain the pattern: Clemente Bar is open from 5pm to 1am every day, and the slots Sosa named as the first to go are the first three hours. A table after 9pm is a different and easier contest than 6pm on a Saturday. That is a reading of the hours and the interview, not a promise from the bar.

Does Clemente Bar take walk-ins?

The Lounge does; the Studio does not. The FAQ says “We welcome same-day walk-ins for The Lounge experience,” and the Lounge page adds that reservations are taken throughout the night with walk-ins encouraged. The Studio, in the bar’s words, is “a reservation-only chef’s counter.” For the walk-in line, the 2024 Resy interview is still the most useful thing published. “We do open right at 5 p.m., and we start taking names right then,” Sosa said, and Resy’s advice was to try right at the 5pm opening or later in the evening, after 9pm. Expect a long wait at prime time. After the bar opened, Artnet News ran a column under the headline “Should You Wait Four Hours for a $26 Martini at Clemente Bar?”, and as of November 2026 that martini is still $26.

The Lounge is 21 and over, booked or walk-in, so a group with anyone younger belongs at the Studio, where under-21 guests are welcome at the tasting menu. You enter through Eleven Madison Park’s doors and staff take you upstairs. If the plan is a drink before or after dinner downstairs, the FAQ is candid: “We welcome walk-ins in The Lounge, though we cannot guarantee seating and timing that works with your Eleven Madison Park reservation.” It points anyone who wants the two coordinated to Eleven Madison Park’s guest relations team. Other hard rooms where the door is a real route are in NYC hard restaurants that take walk-ins.

The Studio: nine seats and Eiji Ichimura, through 2026

The Studio is a long hinoki-wood counter for nine. As of November 2026 the bar says Sushi Master Chef Eiji Ichimura is hosting “a multi-course omakase tasting menu through the end of 2026”: a two-hour meal of courses built mostly on seafood, nigiri and hand rolls, with sake and wine chosen for the menu and Japanese whisky, cocktails and beer alongside. Loop Magazine reported that the residency began in mid-January 2026. The bar’s website does not print the Studio’s price, so check the figure on the Studio’s Resy page before you commit: the seat is prepaid, so you pay for it when you book.

Two cautions before you book it. Older write-ups describe a different Studio: when the bar opened, the counter served a five-course tasting with a cocktail pairing in about 90 minutes, and some pages, the 50 Best listing among them, still say so. That is not what is on offer as of November 2026. And the residency has an end date. On a 21-day count, the last dates of December open around December 10, and the bar’s site does not say what the counter becomes in January. Diet matters more than usual here, too: “The Studio can accommodate nut, shellfish, and dairy allergies; all other allergies or dietary restrictions cannot be accommodated.”

Cancellation fees, lateness and the waitlist

The two rooms have different terms. For the Lounge: “A cancellation fee will not be charged if you cancel at least 48 hours in advance. If you cancel after that, you agree to be charged a fee of $25.00 per guest.” For the Studio: “The Studio is a pre-paid, non-refundable experience. In the event of a cancellation, a fee of $100.00 per guest on the reservation will apply.” Both are strict about time: “We allow a five-minute grace period for arrival and are unable to seat guests more than ten minutes late.” Because you are walked up from Eleven Madison Park’s entrance, leave a few minutes for that.

The 48-hour line is the one that matters if you are hunting a returned Lounge table. Someone holding a Saturday booking with loose plans can let it go free until Thursday evening, which suggests returns bunch up in the two or three days before a date. The bar also says it keeps a waitlist on Resy for times that are booked and encourages you to add your name, and Sosa said in 2024 that when there are cancellations the bar tries to fill them from the Notify list, so join it. How Resy’s waitlist and Notify differ is in Resy waitlist vs Notify.

What the Lounge costs

The Lounge’s sample menu on the bar’s site (the file is dated October 29, 2026, and the bar says the menu changes) prices cocktails from $23 to $27. The Clemente Martini, made with Altamura vodka, Malfy gin, green curry and saffron, is $26. Zero-proof cocktails are $18, and a bourbon and rum punch called the Charleston Penalty, inspired by the chef Sean Brock, is $76 and serves up to four. The food runs from snacks to a few larger plates: sake pickles at $12, endive with candied pistachio at $17, thrice-fried potatoes at $16, a mushroom burger at $28, a fried chicken “by Chef Sean Brock” at $38, a D.L.T. made with Eleven Madison Park’s roast duck at $52, and a black truffle tarte flambée at $65. Wine by the glass runs from $20 to $105, the top of that being Krug, and Eleven Madison Park’s full wine list is available on request. Two cocktails each at about $25, plus the endive and the potatoes, comes to about $133 for two before tax and tip. For a cocktail bar with the opposite booking problem, where most seats are walk-in only, see Double Chicken Please reservations.

Watching Clemente Bar’s Resy pages

A prime Lounge table or a Studio seat comes down to being on the right Resy page at the right moment: 10am three weeks out, or whenever someone lets a table go before the 48-hour line. SeatSwiper watches Resy, SevenRooms and OpenTable, and both of Clemente Bar’s rooms book on Resy, so a watch on the Lounge page, the Studio page or both covers the release and the cancellations after it. Set the date, party size and the times you would take, and it books the table the moment one opens or someone cancels, so you are not refreshing at 10am. It books on your own Resy account, in your name, for your own night out, and nothing is resold or transferred. It can’t get your account banned, because it books on your own account and checks every few minutes, never nonstop. The first booking is free. After that it is a flat $5, charged only when it actually books the table, with no subscription. A cancellation watch on a date that is already full costs $1 to start, charged when the watch begins even if no table ever opens; that $1 is not covered by the free first booking and is not refunded, and the same $5 applies if the watch wins you the table.

The honest limits: it only works on those three platforms, it needs your Resy login to book in your name, and it can lose a race for a single table. It sees a returned table only when that table goes back on Resy’s public calendar, so a cancellation the bar fills straight from its Notify list or its own waitlist may never reach it; join both yourself. It cannot hold your place in the 5pm walk-in line. And a Studio seat it books is an ordinary Studio reservation on the bar’s terms, prepaid and non-refundable, so only watch dates you are sure you can make.