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Restaurants and cafes

Website design for restaurants in Dubai

Four questions decide everything: what is the food, where are you, are you open, and can I book. Answer them in five seconds on a phone and the site has done its job.

Restaurant websites are the clearest case in this entire list, because the visitor's intent is never ambiguous. They are hungry, they are on a phone, and they want the menu. Everything else on the site is decoration on top of that.

Almost every restaurant gets this wrong in the same way. The menu is a PDF that opens in a new tab and has to be pinched to read. The address is in an image. The booking is a phone number they have to copy. Each of those is a small friction and any one of them loses the table.

The design still matters, because people eat with their eyes and a restaurant sells an evening rather than a meal. But it matters second, after the four questions are answered.

What is actually wrong

The four things people describe when they call.

The menu is a PDF

The single most common and most costly mistake. It is unreadable on a phone, invisible to Google, and it means nobody can search for a dish you serve.

Nobody can tell if you are open

Hours that are out of date, or only on Instagram, or different on the site and on Google. A visitor who cannot tell goes somewhere they can.

Booking is a phone number

For a table tonight, a phone number is fine. For a table on Saturday from someone browsing at 11pm, it is a dead end.

The photography does not sell it

You have a room people photograph and a chef who plates carefully, and the site shows neither properly.

The menu is a web page, not a document

This is the one thing worth insisting on. A menu as real text on a page is readable on any phone, can be updated in a minute when a price changes or a dish comes off, and can be found by someone searching for a dish rather than for you. A PDF is invisible to search, awkward on mobile, and always slightly out of date because updating it means opening a design file. The gain here is larger than any visual decision on the site.

  • Menu as text, structured so search engines can read the dishes
  • Dietary and allergen information where it can actually be seen
  • Prices you can change yourself in under a minute
  • Separate menus for lunch, dinner and brunch, each with its own link

Location, hours and booking, answered without a scroll

These three are the whole utility of a restaurant site and they belong above everything else on a phone. Hours that match your Google profile exactly, an address that opens the map in one tap, and booking that works at eleven at night. If you take reservations through a platform, link straight into it rather than making someone find it.

What you get

Included as standard.

  • Menus as real pages you can edit yourself, never a PDF
  • Hours, address and booking reachable without scrolling on a phone
  • One tap to maps, one tap to call, one tap to book
  • Your own photography, shot and optimised so it loads fast
  • Reservation platform linked directly, or a form that reaches you
  • Built mobile first, because nobody has ever looked up a restaurant on a desktop
  • Technical SEO and Google Business Profile aligned with the site

Most restaurant sites land between AED 3,500 for a strong single page and AED 12,000 for a full site with multiple menus and events. See the full ranges.

Before you ask

The questions that come up first.

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