Websites for restaurants, bistros and wine bars that get a table booked from a phone in a few taps, keep the menu current and give anyone planning a function what they need to enquire.
A restaurant site serves two very different visitors. Diners deciding where to eat tonight want the menu, the prices and a free table, quickly. People organising a birthday, a work dinner or a wedding reception read every word before they enquire, because the booking is bigger and so is the risk of getting it wrong. A good restaurant site looks after both without making either one dig.
A Book a table button in the header that opens the reservation system you already use, whether that's OpenTable, SevenRooms, ResDiary, Now Book It or simply your phone line. The same link can go in the reservations field of your Google Business Profile. We don't take bookings or deposits through a system of our own; yours stays in charge of the floor.
Lunch, dinner, a set or banquet menu, desserts and the wine list, laid out as text on the page rather than a PDF, with a note of when each was last updated. If you charge a public holiday surcharge, the surcharge line is set at least as prominently as the most prominent price, as the ACCC's price display guidance asks. Swapping dishes and prices on existing menu pages is included in hosting.
Seated and standing capacity for each space, whether the venue can be hired exclusively, set menus or packages, minimum spends, deposit and cancellation terms, AV and parking. The enquiry form asks for the date, guest numbers, occasion and dietary needs, so your first reply can be a proper proposal rather than a list of questions.
Mark vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free dishes in a way your kitchen can stand behind, and prompt guests to mention allergies when they book. Under the Food Standards Code, venues have to give allergen information about their dishes when a guest asks, so the site points people to your staff rather than trying to list every ingredient.
Someone choosing a venue for an anniversary or a client lunch wants to see the dining room, the private room and the bar as well as the food. We use real photos you supply, sized to load quickly on a phone, with each space labelled so a planner knows exactly what they're looking at.
If you sell vouchers through your booking or point-of-sale system, the site links straight to that page. Under the Australian Consumer Law, most gift cards sold since 1 November 2019 must be redeemable for at least three years and show their expiry date on the card, so the voucher page should say how long yours last.
No restaurant is among the client sites in our portfolio yet. These two come closest to what a restaurant needs: a South Australian tourism business that takes booking requests and gift voucher requests through its website, and a 12-page site where each program has its own page, the way each menu and the functions offer would. Below them is a Google review from a client whose two business websites we rebuilt.
Fishing charters from Cape Jervis. On a single page, visitors can request a charter date or a gift voucher through a form, look through catch photos, read reviews and the FAQ, and find the departure point on an embedded map.
Visit the Cape Fishing Charters site (opens in a new tab) See it in our portfolio
Dance school on Brisbane's Bayside teaching ballet, contemporary and circus arts. We built a 12-page site with a page for each program and the diploma, a weekly class timetable, a filterable photo gallery, FAQs and an online enrolment form.
Visit the Qld Performing Arts site (opens in a new tab) See it in our portfolio
“Nothing is ever a problem, will email back on a Saturday night if need be.”
★ 5.0 from 33 Google reviews (opens in a new tab)
See all 14 recent client sites in our portfolio.
$399
Menu highlights, hours, the booking button, a map and contact details on one page. Suits a small venue with a single menu and no functions trade.
Our suggestion for most restaurants
$899
A home page with booking and location, a menus page for food and drinks, and a functions page with its own enquiry form.
$1,499
Separate pages for each menu, private dining, function packages, gift vouchers, events and your story, or for more than one venue.
Yes. Every page gets a Book a table button that opens your existing reservation system, and your phone number becomes a tap-to-call link for people who'd rather ring. Your booking system keeps handling availability, deposits and reminders; the website's job is getting people to it in one tap.
It works, but it's the weakest option on a phone: small text to pinch and zoom, a separate download, and one more file to remember to update. We set menus out as text on the page, and can also link a printable PDF for groups who want to pass a set menu or functions pack around.
Whatever you need to send a quote: date and start time, number of guests, the occasion, seated or standing, the package or budget per head, dietary requirements and how they'd like to be contacted. Enquiries arrive in your email, and the page can say how soon you reply to function requests.
For most independent restaurants we suggest the 3-page site at $899: a home page with booking and location, a menus page and a functions page. A small venue with one menu and no functions trade can start with the one-page site at $399. Restaurants with private dining rooms, several menus, regular events or more than one venue are better suited to the 8-page site at $1,499.
In a short practical-information section near the menu: BYO rules and corkage, whether children are welcome and what's on offer for them, dress expectations, step-free entry and accessible toilets, and parking. Staff answer these over and over on the phone, and each one answered on the site is a call you don't take mid-service.
Yes. We're an Adelaide team and work with businesses across Australia by phone and email; our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD. Send us your menus, hours and photos of the room, and we'll build a draft for you to review.
Send us your current menus, a few photos of the room and the link to your booking system. We'll quote, build your draft, and you pay once you're happy with it.
We reply within 24 hours. Prefer email? info@webcraftstudio.com.au