Half off the food bill. £5 to claim the table, a non-refundable hold. Drinks at menu price.
Claim a table · £5At the door, just give your name. No voucher, no app, no awkward explanation.
Each room is held to the same bar: we'd eat there at full price. The seats below they couldn't fill tonight.
"Found a table at 4:15. We were eating by 7:30. The food was genuinely one of the best meals we'd had in months, we never would have booked on a Tuesday otherwise."
Rosie · Brighton
"Didn't know Halfseat existed until a friend mentioned it. Booked within ten minutes of the list dropping. The kitchen was packed and nobody knew we'd paid less."
Tom · Brighton
From the room
"We don't put a table on Halfseat unless it would have walked out empty.That's the whole idea. No gimmicks, no minimum-spends, no walk-in pressure. Just a quiet table that found someone to eat at it."
Dan, head chef, Ash & Honey (a Coal & Co venue)
Around 4pm, the kitchens release the seats they expect to leave empty. No more than 4-8 listings a night, quality over volume.
1-2 guests: £5. 3-4 guests: £8. £3 of it goes straight to the venue. Non-refundable, it's a hold on a last-minute table.
The kitchen halves their food charge. Drinks at full price, the venue keeps the margin where it lives. You eat for less, the room stays profitable.
Built by hospitality operators
From the team behind Coal & Co, The Castle Inn, Tollgate, The Bull on the Green, Ash & Honey, St Mary's Tea Room.
No. We don't print vouchers, we don't sell to deal-hunters. The list is curated, you're booking the rooms a critic would put on their burner phone. The £5 fee + half-off-food is the unlock, not the point.
They built the model with us. Each booking sends £3 to the venue's account, they earn more per Halfseat cover than they would on FirstTable (and keep 100% of their drinks margin, unlike EatClub).
The fee is non-refundable, it's a hold on a last-minute table. If you can't make it you can release the table for someone else up to an hour before, but the fee stays with us and the venue, the same as any restaurant treats a no-show.
Drinks at full price. Restaurants make most of their margin on drinks and discounting them would mean the venue couldn't say yes to listing in the first place. You're getting half off the food bill, which is plenty.
Just give your name. That's it. The venue knows you're coming and seats you the same as every other guest. No voucher, no app, no awkward explanation. Pay your half of the food bill plus full drinks when you leave, as normal.
No booking limits. Claim a table whenever seats are live. Some venues set their own cap on how many Halfseat visits a single diner can make per year, you'll see this noted on their page if it applies.
Because if a venue can sell that table at full price two weeks out, they should. We only want the seats that were genuinely going to leave empty. That's the point: a real last-minute list, not a discount channel.
Brighton only for now. Bristol + Bath are next (within 90 days of Brighton hitting steady state). London comes last when we can do it properly.
