Restaurant Website Design
Before anyone tastes your food, they taste your website. Menus, photos, bookings and directions — we build restaurant websites that turn “where shall we eat?” into a booked table.
What a restaurant's website needs to do
Diners decide fast: menu, photos, location, book. Your website should answer all four beautifully — on a phone, in seconds.
Menus that stay current
Real HTML menus — not blurry PDFs — easy for diners to read on a phone and easy for you to update in minutes.
Bookings without the faff
Whether you use a booking system or take reservations by phone, we make booking a table the most obvious thing on every page.
Found by hungry locals
Tuned for “restaurants near me” and your cuisine, with opening hours and directions Google can read and show.
Photography that sells the visit
Your food and your room, shown properly. We design around imagery because that's what fills tables.
Events and private dining
Christmas parties, birthdays and private hire each get their own page and enquiry form, so the big bookings come straight to you.
Gift vouchers that sell themselves
Sell vouchers from your own site all year round, without handing a middleman a cut.
See a restaurant website we designed
Aldermoor is a concept site we built for a fine-dining restaurant, to show how a website can create atmosphere before a guest ever walks in. Scroll slowly, hover the menu and try booking a table.
Aldermoor
- A candlelit film opening the homepage, with scroll-driven animation
- Hover a course on the menu to see the dish
- Menus with a wine-pairing toggle
- A four-step booking flow with a live calendar
Restaurant website design that fills tables
Most restaurants send their web traffic to a portal, an aggregator or a social page they don't control — and pay commission for the privilege. Your own fast, beautiful website brings bookings to you directly.
Designed around the hungry visitor
Diners want your menu, photos, hours and a way to book, instantly and on a phone. We lay it out in that order, with the atmosphere of your room in every page.
Direct bookings, not commission
Every portal booking costs you margin. We connect the reservation system you already use and make your own site the easiest place to book a table.
Independent bistro, family takeaway, café or fine dining — you'll get a design that matches the room you've worked so hard on, a site you can update yourself, and a fixed price agreed up front. Many restaurant sites fit our affordable web design packages.
Perfect for independent places with personality
Our web design for restaurants suits independents, cafés, gastropubs, takeaways and small groups — anywhere the food and the room deserve better than a template. If your current website is a PDF menu and an out-of-date banner, your next customers have already noticed.
Restaurant Website Design: common questions
How much does a restaurant website cost?
Most restaurant websites fit our fixed-price packages, with a five-page website starting at £425, including your domain name and first year of hosting. Booking integrations, gift vouchers or an online shop are quoted up front, so you know the full cost before we start.
Can my restaurant website take bookings?
Yes. We connect the reservation system you already use, such as OpenTable, ResDiary or SevenRooms, or build a simple enquiry flow if you'd rather take bookings by phone.
Can I update the menu myself?
Yes. Your menus are real web pages, not PDFs, and you can update dishes, prices and specials yourself in minutes. Our care plans can handle it for you if you prefer.
Do you design restaurant websites outside Bolton?
Yes. We're a web design studio in Bolton, but we design restaurant websites for independents right across the UK. Our web design best practices guide shows what we build into every site.
Why choose WillowTree
Designed around the booking
Menu, photos, hours, book — the four things every diner wants, one tap from anywhere on the site.
Hand-coded for speed
Image-rich but still loading in under a second, because a slow site empties tables before they're filled.
Local SEO from day one
Structured menus, hours and location data so Google shows your restaurant the way it deserves.
Looked after long after launch
Seasonal menus, events, Christmas bookings — our care plans keep the site as fresh as the specials board.
