Restaurant websites built to get the table booked
A restaurant site has twenty seconds and three jobs: show the menu, prove you are open, take the booking. We build the menu into the page, put the booking button where the thumb already is, and keep hours in one place.
- Nothing built until you approve the design
- Live on your own domain
- Real code, yours to keep
What your customers are actually there to do
Your customers do not visit to admire the design. They arrive with one of these in mind, and the site's only job is to get them through it without friction.
Read the menu on a phone, right now
Book a table for tonight or the weekend
Check the hours, and whether you do Sunday lunch
See the room before choosing it
What they type to find you
- restaurants near me open now
- book a table [town]
- sunday lunch [town]
- best brunch [town]
- italian restaurant [town] menu
Most of these are answered by the Google map results before anyone reaches a website at all — which is why your Google Business Profile is set up as part of the Full Website build, not sold separately.
Why most restaurant and café websites lose the booking
The menu is a PDF
It downloads, opens sideways, and the prices are unreadable at phone size. It is the most common reason people leave a restaurant site, and search engines cannot read it either.
No obvious way to book
A phone number at the foot of the page, at seven on a Friday, while the visitor is standing on a street comparing you with two other places.
Hours that are wrong when it matters
Bank holidays, Christmas, the Monday you close. Wrong hours turn a customer into a one-star review about a locked door.
Photographs of food that is not yours
Stock plates read as a warning. People are choosing where to eat tonight largely on the strength of the pictures.
A restaurant website built around the menu and the booking
Hand-coded, not assembled from a template — so the layout can be shaped around what your customers came to do rather than around what a page builder allows.
The menu as real text on the page
Sections, dishes, prices and allergens, laid out for a phone. Readable in a second by a customer, and readable by Google, which is how you appear for 'sunday lunch near me'.
A booking button on every screen
Wired to whatever you already use: a reservation platform, a form, or a phone link. It follows the visitor down the page instead of waiting at the bottom.
Hours in one place, right everywhere
Regular hours, kitchen hours and holiday closures, kept consistent with your Google listing so the two never contradict each other.
A page per menu you serve
Brunch, lunch, à la carte, Sunday, set menus, Christmas. Each is its own search with its own season, so each gets its own page.
Photographs of your room and your plates
Your food, your interior, your people, because the room is half of what is being chosen and no stock library has it.
Your Google Business Profile set up
Categories, menu link, attributes, reservation link and photos. For restaurants the listing often is the decision; the site is what confirms it.
Builds from $199. You approve the design before we build.
Questions restaurants and cafés ask
Yes, and we would insist on it. A PDF opens badly on a phone and is invisible to search engines, so none of your dishes can bring anyone to the site. Built as page text, the menu loads instantly, reads at phone size, and ranks for searches like 'sunday roast [town]'.
In almost all cases, yes. Whatever platform you use gives you a booking link or widget, and we place it on every screen rather than a contact page. Phone-only bookings get a short request form straight to your inbox.
No. The menu is content you can edit, so a weekly change takes a couple of minutes. On the fully managed plan you send us the new menu and we put it up, which most weekly-changing kitchens prefer.
The apps take a cut and own the customer. Your site is where direct bookings and orders happen at full margin, and what someone checks after seeing you in the map results, where most restaurant searches start.
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Ready to get started?
Send a doc and we hand-code it, or start from a kit and build it yourself
- Nothing built until you approve the design
- Live on your own domain
- Real code, yours to keep