Restaurant Website Examples

A restaurant website has a short, predictable job: show the menu, say when you are open and where you are, and let a visitor book a table or order food. This page collects real restaurant website examples grouped by type, then lists the pages and features every restaurant site needs, breaks down the anatomy of a restaurant homepage, and ends with a checklist. It is part of the website examples library.

Jump to a type: fine dining · casual and neighborhood · cafe and bakery · pizza and fast casual · multi-location groups

Restaurant website examples at a glance

Every site below is the official homepage of a real, currently operating restaurant, cafe, bakery, or restaurant group. Each is broken down in more detail in the next section.

What a restaurant website needs to do

Most people visit a restaurant website with one of a few questions, and the site works when each one is answered in a click or two:

1. What do they serve, and what does it cost? — the menu
2. Are they open, and where are they? — hours, address, and map
3. Can I get a table? — reservations, or a clear note that the restaurant is walk-in only
4. Can I get it to go? — online ordering, pickup, or delivery
5. Is it right for my occasion? — photos, the room, private dining, and events

Nearly all of these visits happen on a phone, often on the way to the restaurant. A restaurant site is a business website with an unusually narrow set of tasks, which is why the best ones are short and direct.

Restaurant website examples by type

The descriptions below are limited to what is publicly observable on each site: its navigation, where the menu lives, how reservations and ordering work, and how hours and locations are shown. Nothing here states traffic, sales, ratings, or business results. Sites change often, so details such as the booking platform may differ when you visit.

Fine dining restaurants

Fine dining sites usually lead with atmosphere and keep the menu understated, because the main job is booking a table well in advance.

Eleven Madison Park — elevenmadisonpark.com

Alinea — alinearestaurant.com

Noma — noma.dk

Chez Panisse — chezpanisse.com

Casual and neighborhood restaurants

Casual sites put the practical details — hours, address, ordering — higher on the page, because more visitors are deciding today rather than weeks ahead.

Russ & Daughters — russanddaughters.com

Franklin Barbecue — franklinbbq.com

Cafe and bakery websites

Cafe and bakery sites lean on locations and ordering ahead. Many also sell packaged goods or ship nationwide, so the site doubles as an online shop. For an original example built around this pattern, see our cafe website example and bakery website example.

Tartine — tartinebakery.com

Levain Bakery — levainbakery.com

Dominique Ansel — dominiqueansel.com

Intelligentsia — intelligentsia.com

Pizza and fast casual

These sites are built around ordering. The menu and the Order button are often the same thing.

Sweetgreen — sweetgreen.com

Chipotle — chipotle.com

Joe's Pizza — joespizzanyc.com

Pizzeria Bianco — pizzeriabianco.com

Multi-location restaurant groups

Groups and chains have a different problem: a visitor wants one specific restaurant, so the site's first job is to route them there.

Union Square Hospitality Group — ushg.com

Momofuku — momofuku.com

Dishoom — dishoom.com

Nando's — nandos.co.uk

Pret A Manger — pret.co.uk

Must-have pages and features for a restaurant website

The examples above look very different, but they share the same core. These are the pages and features to plan before you think about design.

Put the menu in HTML, not only a PDF

A menu published as an HTML page loads fast on a phone, can be read by screen readers, scales with the visitor's text size, and can be read by search engines. A PDF menu has to be downloaded, zoomed, and scrolled sideways on a small screen, and it is easy to forget to update. If you want a printable version, offer the PDF as an extra link next to the HTML menu rather than instead of it. Dishoom and Chez Panisse both publish their menus as text on the page.

Mark up prices, dietary symbols, and sections consistently, and put a short allergen note at the top or bottom of the menu.

Hours, location, and contact on every page

Put the address, hours, and phone number in the footer so they appear on every page, and repeat them on a Visit or Contact page with an embedded map or a map link. Make the phone number a tel: link and the address a link to a map. If your hours change by season or service, say so, as Franklin Barbecue does.

For search engines, describe the restaurant with Restaurant structured data from Schema.org (name, address, phone, opening hours, menu URL, and whether you accept reservations), and keep the same details in your Google Business Profile.

Reservations and online ordering

Use whatever booking or ordering platform you already have, but link to it from a button on your own site rather than sending people to search for it. Name the button for the action ("Reserve a table", "Order pickup"), and keep it in the header so it is always one tap away. If you do not take reservations, say "Walk-ins only" where the button would be.

Built for phones first

Most visitors are on a phone. Check that the header and the main button fit on a small screen, the menu reads without zooming, tap targets are large enough, and photos are compressed so the page loads quickly on a mobile connection. The responsive website example shows how a layout adapts from desktop to phone.

The anatomy of a restaurant homepage

Restaurant homepages vary in style, but most reuse the same skeleton. The diagram below is an illustrative pattern, not a specific real site.

+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| HEADER   Logo        Menu  About  Private dining  [Reserve]  |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| HERO                                                          |
|   [ photo of a signature dish or the dining room ]           |
|   Restaurant name — one line about the food                  |
|   [ Reserve a table ]   [ View the menu ]   [ Order pickup ] |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| HOURS & LOCATION (short strip)                                |
|   Tue–Sun 5–10 PM · 123 Main Street · (555) 010-0000          |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| MENU PREVIEW                                                  |
|   Three or four dishes with prices · Full menu ->             |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| ABOUT / THE KITCHEN                                           |
|   [photo]  Chef, story, sourcing · Read more ->               |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| PRIVATE DINING & EVENTS                                       |
|   The room, capacity, and an inquiry link                     |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| RESERVE (repeat the main action)                              |
|   [ Reserve a table ]  or call (555) 010-0000                 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
| FOOTER   Address + map · Hours · Phone · Gift cards · Jobs   |
+--------------------------------------------------------------+

The sections in order:

1. Header — logo, a short menu, and the main action (Reserve or Order) as a button that stays visible
2. Hero — a real photo of the food or the room, the restaurant's name, one line about the cooking, and one or two buttons
3. Hours and location strip — the answer to "are they open?" without scrolling
4. Menu preview — a few representative dishes and prices, linking to the full HTML menu
5. About — the chef, the story, and photos that show what the evening feels like
6. Private dining and events — for restaurants that host groups
7. Repeated call to action — the Reserve or Order button again at the end of the page
8. Footer — address with a map link, hours, phone, gift cards, careers, and social links

The real examples above show how far this skeleton stretches. Fine dining sites such as Eleven Madison Park and Alinea shrink it to atmosphere plus booking; counter-service sites such as Franklin Barbecue and Joe's Pizza lead with hours, ordering, and locations; groups such as Momofuku and Pizzeria Bianco replace the menu preview with a list of restaurants. Our restaurant website example follows the full skeleton, with separate menu, kitchen, private dining, and reservation pages. For the hotel or catering company version of the same idea, the booking or quote request takes the place of the reservation.

Typical restaurant site structure

Most restaurant sites are flat: every page sits one click from the homepage. For more on choosing pages and navigation, see website structure examples.

RESTAURANT — flat structure
example.com
+-- Home
+-- Menu
|   +-- Dinner
|   +-- Drinks
|   +-- Brunch
+-- About (chef, story)
+-- Private dining & events
+-- Reservations
+-- Order online
+-- Visit (hours, location, contact)
+-- Gift cards

Multi-location restaurants add a Locations page and one page per location, each with its own hours, address, menu, and booking link.

Restaurant website checklist

FAQ

Want a website built for you?

If you would rather start from a finished design than build a restaurant site from scratch, our ready-made food and hospitality designs show the complete result. See the restaurant website example, the cafe website example, the bakery website example, the catering company website example, or the hotel website example, each of which can be customized with your name, menu, photos, and booking links.

Where to go next

A restaurant website works when a hungry visitor on a phone can see the menu, check the hours, and book or order in a couple of taps. Start from the must-have pages and the homepage anatomy above, then borrow the specifics from the examples that match your type of restaurant. For more business site patterns, see business website examples; for planning the pages and navigation, see website structure examples and the website wireframe example. To build it by hand, start from the HTML website example; to use a CMS, see WordPress website examples.