Restaurant website examples
A restaurant website has one job on a phone at 7pm: show the menu, the hours and a way to book or order, before the visitor opens the next tab. These examples are the designs we ship for restaurants, cafes, bakeries and bars, with the live sites of real businesses that chose to be listed, and the things every good one has in common.
12 designs below, and the six things every good restaurant website has. Designs and listed sites read live; the judgement reviewed 8 November 2026.
What a good restaurant website has
The things the examples below have in common, and the reason each one is there.
The menu as text, not a photo
A PDF or a picture of the menu cannot be read by a search engine, zoomed on a phone, or updated in a minute when the fish changes. Every design here renders the menu as real text, section by section, with prices beside the dishes.
Hours and address above the fold
The two questions behind most restaurant searches are "are they open" and "where". Both sit in the first screen, and the hours carry the holiday exceptions, so Google and the site never disagree.
One obvious action
Book a table, order for collection, or call. A good design picks the one the kitchen actually wants and makes it the only button that stands out; three competing buttons get fewer taps than one.
Photos of the food you actually serve
Stock photography is spotted in a second and quietly lowers trust. The designs leave room for six to eight real dishes shot in daylight; that is enough.
A page that answers the group
Private dining, catering, large parties: the enquiries worth the most come from people who could not find this page. One page, a short form, and the questions you always ask.
Reviews where a stranger will see them
A handful of real reviews near the booking button, with the source named. Invented praise is illegal in most places and obvious everywhere.
What goes wrong
- A full-screen video that loads before the menu does, on a mobile connection outside the restaurant.
- Reservations handed to a third-party widget that charges per cover and keeps the diner's details.
- Hours updated on Google but not on the site, or the other way round, so the two contradict each other on a bank holiday.
12 restaurant website designs to start from
Each one opens as a live preview. The words, photos and colours are yours to change; the working parts stay.
Restaurant & Dining
Twenty-eight-cover restaurant: an open kitchen in flames, tonight's printed menu, the room by candlelight, and a table plan of free and booked tables beside the booking.
Brunch Cafe
All-day brunch cafe: a waiter's order pad beside eggs benedict, a bento of the favourites with prices, and tables after eleven to book.
Steakhouse & Grill
Charcoal steakhouse: steaks over glowing embers, butcher's ageing tags for 28, 45 and 60 days, a doneness scale, and a table in the dark room.
Plant-Based Bistro
Plant-based restaurant: a vegetable mosaic hero, a season chart of what is in month by month, fire and fermentation, and the table booking beside the glasshouse room.
Artisan Bakery
Sourdough bakery: a hessian flour sack stencilled with today's bake times beside the oven being loaded, the real bakes, forty-eight hours for a loaf, and the counter.
Coffee Shop
Coffee roaster and shop: this week's bag label beside espresso dripping, a ticker of origins, the recipe dial, and beans to take home.
Bar & Lounge
Cocktail bar and lounge: a spec card of the house Negroni over backlit bottles, three signatures with their full recipes, and the lounge to book.
Craft Brewery
Brewery and taproom: brewers between the fermenters, a tap list with the colour, strength and bitterness of each beer, grain to glass in four steps, and the taproom under the tanks.
Going deeper
Guides from the blog, and a free tool for the sums.
Frequently asked questions
What pages does a restaurant website need?
Home with hours, address and the main action; the menu; a booking or ordering page; a contact page with a map; and a private dining or events page if you take groups. A story page is nice; the menu is essential.
Should the menu have prices on it?
Yes. A menu without prices reads as expensive, and the people who care about price will not call to ask - they will go elsewhere. See the guide on putting your menu online.
Do I need online ordering or just a phone number?
If you do collection or delivery at all, online ordering removes the busiest half hour of phone calls and gets the order right. If you are table service only, a booking form is the better investment.
Can I use one of these designs and change everything?
Yes. Every example here is a starting point: the words, photos, menu and colours are yours to change, and the booking and ordering parts keep working.
Examples for other trades
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