Fish Cheeks Reservations: NoHo and Williamsburg on Resy, 30 Days

There are two Fish Cheeks now, and they book separately. The original is at 55 Bond Street in NoHo, open since 2016. The second is at 661 Driggs Avenue in Williamsburg, which opened on May 13, 2025, per Resy’s preview that spring. Both come from co-founders Jenn Saesue and Chat Suansilphong, whose group also runs Bangkok Supper Club in the West Village. Both take reservations on Resy, both open their calendars 30 days out, and both say they keep tables for people who walk in. This guide covers each location’s window, the hour a new date appears, what was still bookable when I checked on November 1, 2026, the rules on party size and no-shows, and when walking in is the better plan.

Is Fish Cheeks on Resy? Yes, both locations

The reservations page on fishcheeksnyc.com has two buttons, Noho and Brooklyn, and each opens its own Resy page: Fish Cheeks NoHo and Fish Cheeks Williamsburg. They are separate venues with separate inventory, so a full Friday in NoHo tells you nothing about Driggs Avenue. Search for “Fish Cheeks” on Resy and both appear; Resy files the NoHo room under Bowery. An OpenTable page for Fish Cheeks also turns up in search, but it is only an information listing: it says the restaurant “is not on the OpenTable booking network.” The restaurant’s site puts it plainly: “We are currently accepting reservations for indoor dining. We also hold a limited number of tables for walk in guests.”

When do Fish Cheeks reservations open?

The restaurant’s word, in the Need to Know note on both Resy pages, is “Reservations are available 30 days in advance.” It does not give a time. Two trackers, itsadate and Scoopd, say new dates appear at midnight Eastern, and itsadate counts today as the first of the 30, which makes the newest date 29 calendar days away. The calendar agreed. At 11:28pm on Sunday, November 1, the last bookable date at both locations was Monday, November 30, and every date in December was struck through. At 12:01am on November 2, December 1 had opened at both, with every slot from lunch through 10pm in NoHo and 5 to 9:45pm in Williamsburg bookable for two, while December 2 still showed no availability. New dates open at midnight Eastern, 29 days ahead.

The date math for a real night: say you want dinner on Saturday, December 12, 2026. Twenty-nine days back is Friday, November 13, so be on the Resy page at midnight as Thursday, November 12 turns into Friday. If December 12 is not there yet at 12:01am, wait for the next midnight rather than refreshing all night. One date appears each night, so missing one costs you a single evening, not the month.

Williamsburg did not always work this way. Resy’s April 2025 preview said its reservations opened two weeks ahead at 9am at first, and would “eventually transition to being released 30 days in advance.” That has happened: its Need to Know now carries the same 30-day line as NoHo, and its calendar ended on the same November 30. Older advice quoting two weeks at 9am is from the launch.

How hard is it? What the calendar showed

Less hard than its reputation, if you can be flexible about the hour. For two people at NoHo, the dates I checked on the night of November 1 looked like this. Saturday, November 28, 27 days out, had every slot from noon to 11pm. Saturday, November 21 still had dinner from 4:30 to 5:30pm and from 9pm on, with the middle of the evening gone. Saturday, November 14 had nothing at dinner before 9pm. Friday, November 6 had 4:30pm and 10:15 to 11pm, and Saturday, November 7 had no dinner at all, though lunch that day was open from noon to 4:15pm.

Williamsburg was easier on most of the dates I checked. Saturday, November 21 had most times from 5 to 10:15pm, and November 14 still had 5 to 5:30pm and 9:15pm onward. Its tight night was Saturday, November 7, with dinner only from 9:15 to 10pm, while lunch ran open from noon to 4pm. The pattern at both rooms: prime Saturday dinner goes one to three weeks out, the 4:30 to 5:30pm and after-9pm tables last, and lunch is wide open. Resy treats the afternoon as a separate lunch service, with slots every 15 minutes until 4pm or so.

Party size and the large-party email

Online booking is for small groups. On Resy, a search for six at NoHo on two November dates (a Saturday and a Tuesday) found no times at all, and seven returned “Sorry, we don’t currently have any tables available for 7.” Groups are meant to write in, but the two sources disagree on the details. The Resy pages say parties of 7 to 14 should email reservation@fishcheeksnyc.com, for either location. The restaurant’s website says 8 to 14, and gives Williamsburg its own address, reservation@fishcheeksbk.com, with 15 or more told to contact the restaurant. For a Brooklyn group I would use the Brooklyn address from the website and copy the NoHo one. Private events go through inquiry forms on the site, or morgan@55hospitality.com per Resy, and Resy’s preview says the back room in Williamsburg can be reserved for larger parties.

The $25 no-show fee and the 15-minute rule

Both Resy pages carry the same rules, and they are strict. “Please note all parties must be present to be seated.” Anyone more than fifteen minutes late loses the table: the wording is that those who arrive fifteen minutes past their time, “regardless of notifying our staff, will forfeit their reservation.” And “The fee of $25 per person will be charged in the case of no shows.” Williamsburg adds a two-hour limit on the table, after which “we may ask for the table back.” The tracker itsadate also reports a late-cancellation charge of $20 plus tax per guest inside three hours of the reservation. I could not see booking terms on Resy without signing in, so treat that figure as unconfirmed and read the terms Resy shows before you confirm. How these fees usually work is in Resy no-show fees explained.

Does Fish Cheeks take walk-ins?

Yes, and it says so twice. Resy: “We always welcome walk in guests!” The website: a limited number of tables are held for walk-ins. What it will not tell you is the wait. The Infatuation’s review, from 2022, said there is always one at NoHo and that “The longest we’ve encountered was two hours for a bar seat.” The easy way in is the afternoon. Both rooms open at noon every day, NoHo’s happy hour runs noon to 5pm and Williamsburg’s noon to 6pm, and the Resy calendars above show how little demand there is for those hours. For a walk-in at dinner, go as one or two people right as dinner starts (4:30pm in NoHo, 5pm in Williamsburg on Resy’s calendar) or after 9pm, the same hours that stay open online.

What to order, and how the menu works

The menu is built for sharing, with no pad Thai, no choose-your-protein curries and no substitutions, per Saesue in the Resy preview, which named the crowd pleasers as the coconut crab curry, the whole steamed branzino under cilantro, culantro, lime and bird’s eye chiles, and the Zabb chicken wings. Groups of two or more can order a six-course family-style menu, and there is a separate gluten-free menu. Williamsburg added a few dishes of its own at opening, among them a lime-cured raw crab and a tom yum noodle bowl with pork belly, shrimp, squid and crab.

If both rooms are full on your night, the same group’s Bangkok Supper Club reservations guide covers its walk-in share and window, and Thai Diner reservations is the other downtown Thai room worth a look. The hardest restaurants to book in NYC list shows how Fish Cheeks compares.

Watching both Fish Cheeks calendars

A Fish Cheeks table appears in two ways: at midnight, 29 days out, or whenever someone cancels, which the $25 no-show fee gives people a reason to do rather than simply not turn up. SeatSwiper watches Resy, SevenRooms and OpenTable, and both Fish Cheeks locations book on Resy, so you can set a watch on NoHo, Williamsburg or both for the date and party size you want, and it books the table the moment one opens or someone cancels. It books on your own Resy account, in your name, for your own dinner, 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, it can lose a race for the same table, and it cannot put your name down at the host stand for a walk-in or handle a group that has to email.