Hand-coded WordPress for independent UK restaurants and cafes. Built to fill covers, drive orders and rank locally.
Most restaurant websites are either DIY Wix/Squarespace builds that look amateur on desktop and break on mobile, or expensive agency builds with a locked CMS you can't touch. Neither ranks well on Google. Neither converts a browsing visitor into a reservation. Meanwhile, your potential customers are searching "restaurants near me" on their phones and choosing the first result with an easy-to-read menu and a one-tap booking option.
We build hand-coded WordPress sites for restaurants with a mobile-first philosophy — because that's how your customers find you. Clear menu display, one-tap reservation booking, Google Maps integration and a local SEO setup that gets you ranking for the searches that fill covers. No page builders, no bloat, no slow load times that cause Google to rank you below the chain restaurants.
Beautifully formatted menu pages — starters, mains, desserts, drinks, children's menu, allergen information — that work on every screen size and are easy to update yourself. PDF menu embed options too, with a CMS panel your team can update without calling us.
Integration with OpenTable, ResDiary, Collins, Resy, Quandoo and standard contact-form setups for smaller restaurants. The booking form is part of the site design — not an iframe from 2015 — so the experience is seamless.
WordPress Website Design →"Restaurants near me", "Italian restaurant [town]", "Sunday lunch [city]" — these searches drive massive footfall. We build the technical SEO foundation, Restaurant schema markup and Google Business Profile integration that gets you ranking in the map pack.
WordPress SEO →For restaurants wanting to offer collection or delivery orders directly — bypassing Just Eat and Deliveroo commission — we build WooCommerce ordering flows integrated into your site. Your brand, your margin, your customer data.
WooCommerce Development →Dedicated pages for private dining, functions, birthday packages, Christmas menus and ticketed events — each with their own enquiry form, capacity information and photo gallery. Events are high-margin bookings that need to be easy to find and enquire about.
Food photography drives restaurant bookings. We build gallery sections, dish showcase layouts and hero sections designed around your food photography — with optimised image loading so the site stays fast while looking spectacular.
WooCommerce digital gift vouchers let customers purchase and send vouchers for meals, tasting menus or experiences directly through your site. A passive revenue stream that generates bookings without additional marketing spend.
Google Reviews displayed prominently on your homepage and contact page — with schema markup that adds star ratings to your Google search snippet. Review stars in search results directly increase the click-through rate from local searches.
From neighbourhood bistros to destination dining — independent restaurants competing against chains and delivery platforms, where a credible website with a clear booking flow is the difference between a full service and an empty restaurant.
Independent coffee shops, bakeries and delis where the brand personality needs to shine through the website — with opening hours prominently displayed, an online ordering option and local SEO setup that captures the morning coffee search traffic.
Pubs where food is a significant revenue line — Sunday lunches, weekly specials, private hire — and the website needs to serve both the drinkers checking opening times and the diners comparing menus and making reservations.
Restaurants wanting to take online orders directly — bypassing Just Eat and Deliveroo commission — with WooCommerce ordering, collection and delivery zone management, and a booking system that sends orders directly to the kitchen.
Client reviews
"They rebuilt our site in four weeks and we were ranking on page one within the month. It is the best commercial decision we made this year."
"Our old WordPress site was slow, invisible in search and frankly embarrassing. They fixed all of it — we are faster, ranking better and finally winning the right clients."
"WooCommerce, SEO and hosting all managed in one place — it changed how we operate. Sales are up 40% since launch and we have not looked back."
"Our site converts better than anything our competitors are running. They built it around our actual customers — not a template."
Restaurant WordPress websites start from £1,800 for a custom-designed site with menu, booking and local SEO. Sites with online ordering via WooCommerce start from £2,400. Fixed-price, quoted in writing after a free discovery call. No hourly rates.
We integrate with OpenTable, ResDiary, Collins, Quandoo, Resy, SevenRooms and standard email-based booking forms. If you use a system not listed, ask — we've connected to most things. For smaller restaurants, a well-designed contact form converts just as well as a full reservation system.
"[Cuisine] restaurant [town]" is one of the most valuable search positions a restaurant can hold. We handle the technical SEO, Restaurant schema markup, Google Business Profile integration and content structure that Google needs to rank you locally. Results typically show within 2–4 months for local searches.
Yes — that's a standard requirement we build into every restaurant site. The menu CMS is configured for your specific menu structure so your team can update prices, add seasonal dishes and change allergen information without developer support. We include a training session in every project.
Yes. The same principles apply — mobile-first, local SEO, booking/ordering integration, photography-led design. We've built sites for independent coffee shops, bakeries, delis and street food operators. The brief might be simpler than a full restaurant but the quality standard is the same.
Yes. WooCommerce ordering lets you take collection and delivery orders directly — with delivery zone management, order management dashboard and integration with your kitchen display system. The economics are straightforward: no per-order commission means every directly-ordered delivery is worth more margin.
Yes. Allergen display is a legal requirement for UK food businesses. We build allergen filtering, per-dish allergen icons and a downloadable allergen guide into every restaurant site — both to meet legal requirements and to build trust with customers who have dietary requirements.
Yes. WooCommerce digital gift vouchers let customers purchase and email vouchers for meals directly through your site. This is one of the most cost-effective revenue streams a restaurant can add — no fulfilment cost, high margin and driven entirely by organic and social traffic.
Photography is the most important conversion factor on a restaurant website. We provide a food photography brief that covers the specific shots needed — hero dish photography, restaurant ambience, table settings — but you'll need a professional photographer. We can recommend food photographers based on your location if needed.
Yes. We build dedicated private dining and events pages with capacity information, minimum spend details, enquiry forms and photo galleries. Event enquiries are typically high-value and the page structure needs to reflect that — not buried in a contact form.
We integrate Google Reviews prominently into the site design and can build post-visit email flows with a direct link to your Google Review page. Review volume is one of the strongest local SEO signals for restaurants and cafes — the site architecture we build actively supports review acquisition.
Yes. Pop-up restaurants, street food businesses and food market traders need lightweight sites that can be updated quickly with locations, menus and booking dates. We build flexible CMS structures that work for the specific update frequency of a mobile food business.
Yes. WordPress is the most flexible platform for restaurant websites because it supports every booking system, every ordering plugin and every CMS requirement a food business might have — without locking you into a monthly platform fee or limiting your control over design and content.
Standard restaurant sites — menu, booking, gallery, local SEO — take 4–6 weeks from briefing to launch. Sites with online ordering, events architecture or multiple menus typically run 6–8 weeks. We provide weekly staging updates so you can review progress and approve content throughout the build.
A 30-minute discovery call, your menu, food photography and your booking system details. If you don't have professional photography yet, we'll factor a photography brief into the project plan. After the discovery call we deliver a written fixed-price proposal within 24 hours.
Book a free 30-minute discovery call. We'll look at your current site, check your local search rankings and give you a clear picture of what a well-built site could do for your bookings.