Last-minute restaurant tables. Half off the food. Released on the day, for that night only.
Brighton & Hove's best tables.
Half off, from January.
Half off the food bill, from £5 to hold the table. Tables are released on the day, for that night only. Nothing is bookable until January 2027.
Opening January 2027.
Each venue is held to the same bar: we'd eat there at full price. The seats below they couldn't fill tonight.
Tables are released on the day.
Each table is for that night only. Brighton & Hove opens in January 2027.
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Brighton & Hove and Bristol, January 2027. Lewes and Sussex, then Bath, next.
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From the kitchen
"We don't put a table on Halfseat unless it would have walked out empty. That's the whole idea. No gimmicks, no vouchers, no walk-in pressure. Just a quiet table that found someone to eat at it."
Dan, head chef, Ash & Honey (a Coal & Co venue)
For restaurants and pubs
Get paid to fill your quiet nights.
Halfseat lists the tables you expect to leave empty. Diners pay a booking fee and you keep £3 to £8 of it, on top of whatever they spend at your table.
You keep your drinks margin.
Half off the food only. Drinks stay full price.
Nothing owed if nobody books.
No contract. Pause any night, any time.
Tried in our own venues first.
Built and run by Sussex hospitality operators, and trialled at our own pubs before launch.
30 founding venues keep the whole booking fee, forever. Applications close 31 December 2026, or when the slots are taken.
A short list, updated daily.
Around 4pm, the kitchens release the seats they expect to leave empty. No more than 4-8 listings a night, quality over volume.
From £5 to hold the table.
By party size: £5 for 1-2, £8 for 3-4, £14 for 5-6. At least £3 goes straight to the venue. Non-refundable, it's a hold on a last-minute table.
Half off the food bill.
The kitchen halves their food charge. Drinks at full price, the venue keeps the margin where it lives. You eat for less, the venue stays profitable.
Built by hospitality operators
We run real venues ourselves, so we built the kind of deal a kitchen will actually say yes to.
First to know, first to sit
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One email at 4pm when tonight's tables drop. Nothing else, unsubscribe any time.
Common questions.
Is this a Groupon thing?+
No. We don't print vouchers, we don't sell to deal-hunters. The list is short, and every venue on it is a place we'd eat at full price. The £5 fee + half-off-food is the unlock, not the point.
How does the venue feel about this?+
Each booking sends £3 to £8 to the venue, by party size, from their first booking, and they keep 100% of their drinks margin.
Can I cancel or get a refund?+
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. The one exception: if the venue cancels on you, you're refunded.
What about drinks?+
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.
Why tonight only?+
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 deal: a real last-minute list, not a discount channel.
Where else do you operate?+
Brighton & Hove and Bristol open in January 2027. Lewes and Sussex, then Bath, follow. London opens when enough people there are on the list.