Awhile back, the lovely Sara Waters shared a Slate.com article on really bad restaurant design. That was my inspiration for this post, showcasing ten well-designed restaurant web sites guaranteed not to make you lose your lunch!
This post was updated in May 2019 to indicate some restaurants are now offline and others have changed their content management systems.
- 1. Zocalo Cafe
- Design Studio: Charlie Chauvin
- Platform: WordPress
- 2. The Arches, Malta
- Design Studio: Isle Creative
- Platform: WordPress
- 3. Evtat
- Designer Studio: Creative Manner
- Platform: CMS Made Simple
- 4. Essenza Ristorante
- Updated May 2019; no longer powered by CMS Made Simple.
- Design Studio: Applejack Studio
- Platform: WordPress
- 5. Blue Willow Restaurant
- Design Studio: Drupal Style
- Platform: Drupal
- 6. F.I.G. (Food Is Good)
- Design Studio: eHouse Studio
- Platform: Expression Engine
- 7. Innovative Cuisine
- Design Studio: eHouse Studio
- Platform: Expression Engine
- 8. Ginger Restaurant
- Design Studio: Yellow Llamo
- Platform: WordPress
- 9. JJ’s Fish and Chicken
- Updated May 2019; no longer powered by Joomla!
- Design Studio: Growth spark Media
- Platform: WordPress
- 10. Original Joe’s
- Design Studio: [Unknown]
- Platform: [Unknown but CMS Made Simple is suspected]
Other Resources
- https://inspirationti.me/websites/restaurants/
- https://webdesignledger.com/inspiration/40-tasty-restaurant-websites-to-inspire-you
- https://fearlessflyer.com/2010/01/16-beautiful-restaurant-websites/
Joni Mueller has been designing web sites for hire since 2003, when she first blew up her web host’s server by insisting on running Greymatter. Since then, Joni has designed for Blogger and Movable Type, TextPattern, WordPress and CMS Made Simple. She lives with her cat and shoe collection in a bucolic old section of Houston called Idylwood. For some strange reason, Joni likes to refer to herself in the third person. When she’s not working on web design, she’s ordering lawyers around. And blogging about it. Or both.
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