Web design for restaurants, cafes and bakeries
Astra Labs designs custom websites for restaurants, cafes, bakeries, caterers and food trucks. The price is $499 one time for up to five pages: $99 to start, the rest once you love it and before it goes live. Your menu is written out as real text with your prices, your own kitchen films and photos lead the page, and the booking, ordering and delivery tools you already use become clear buttons.
Guests usually reach a restaurant site from Google Maps or Instagram with one question: what do they serve, what does it cost, and can I get in tonight? These points come from the food businesses we designed for this autumn and from what their current sites did and did not answer.
Several of the sites we read showed the menu as a photo of the printed card, a PDF, scanned pages or a widget that came up empty on some screens. Typed text is readable on a phone, can be zoomed, is understood by Google and can be changed in a minute when a price moves.
Opening hours buried in the footer cost covers. A small line near the top that reads your own clock (open now, kitchen closes at nine, back for breakfast at seven) answers the most common question before anyone calls.
Every one of the 28 food businesses we studied had real photos or short films of its own somewhere: reels from the pass, a dough being stretched, the room at night. Most sites were not using them. A few seconds of your own kitchen says more than any library photo of a stranger's plate.
Our group used Tock, OpenTable, SevenRooms, Toast, Square Online, DoorDash, Uber Eats, ezCater and others. Guests already trust them, so we keep them and give them proper buttons instead of a cluttered embed or a pop-up sitting over the food.
For many of these businesses the private room, the catering tray or the food truck at a wedding is the bigger sale. Per guest packages, minimum numbers and the questions you always ask belong in one short request that lands in your inbox.
Bakers told the same story: people scroll the gallery, then write "can I have this one but in blue". Letting a visitor tap the real cake and start a request from it saves a round of messages.
We read the current site of every restaurant, cafe, bakery, caterer and food truck we designed for between late September and October 2026: 28 businesses in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and the UK. On 1 November 2026 we opened each homepage again as a phone would. A group this size shows patterns, not industry averages.
These were busy, well reviewed places, and the gap was almost never the food or the photos. It was the frame around them. The sites ran on Squarespace, WordPress, Wix, Webflow, restaurant marketing platforms and simple builders, and the same few things came up again and again in our notes: a menu that only existed as an image or a file, pop-ups opening over the first photo, a navigation bar with more links than the menu has sections, and the strongest film the business owned sitting on Instagram instead of on its own homepage. 5 of 27 sites used stock or stock-looking photos in key places, and 4 still showed template filler text or demo pages somewhere.
Method: our review notes describe each old site in writing; we counted notes that mention stock or generated images and placeholder or demo content. Phone checks opened each homepage once at 390 pixels wide and looked for forms, embedded booking tools and tap-to-call links. See the full method.
None of these businesses has asked to be named, so we describe the kind of place and the region only. Every design used the owners' own photos, films, menu and prices.
Each restaurant, cafe and bakery site we make includes these.
Every dish as text with its price and dietary notes. Change a price or add a special from your phone in the dashboard, no new PDF needed.
Your hours read against your own time zone, so the top of the page always says whether the kitchen is open and when it opens next.
Buttons for the tools you already use: OpenTable, Resy, SevenRooms, Tock, TheFork, Toast, ChowNow, Square Online, Uber Eats, DoorDash or Deliveroo.
Your best kitchen and room clips cut into one short loop, compressed so it plays smoothly on mobile data.
Date, guests, package and occasion in one short request. A real enquiry form that reaches your inbox is added at launch.
Address, hours and cuisine marked up for search engines, and your Google Business Profile connected at launch.
One price for the whole site. Pay $99 to begin, see your design, ask for changes, and settle the remaining $400 when it feels like yours, before it goes live on your domain.
Paid once. No monthly plan unless you ask for hosting.
We keep refining it with you. If it still is not right for you, the money comes back in full.
At Astra Labs a complete restaurant, cafe or bakery website is $499 one time for up to five pages. You pay $99 to begin and $400 once you love the finished site, before it goes live. Hosting is optional at $30 a month.
Yes. We put your own booking button or calendar on the site, so reservations keep landing exactly where they land today. The same goes for Tock and TheFork, and for ordering through Toast, ChowNow or Square Online.
Yes. The menu is typed out with every dish and price, so it reads well on a phone and search engines can understand it. You change dishes, prices and specials yourself in your dashboard.
The site links straight to your Uber Eats, DoorDash, Deliveroo or other delivery pages and to your own pickup ordering if you have it. Orders keep running through those services as they do now.
Your packages, per guest prices and minimums sit on their own part of the site, and the request asks for the date, headcount and occasion. At launch a real enquiry form sends those requests straight to your inbox.
Yes. Up to ten products is a small shop for $199, paid into your own Square, PayPal or Stripe account. A full shop of up to 100 products is $499 on top of the site. Gift cards, tickets and subscriptions are quoted separately.
Give it a home that shows the menu, the room and the way in. $499 for the whole site, $99 to start.