15 Best Restaurant Website Designs, Annotated (2026)

Search "best restaurant website design" and you get galleries of hero images. A restaurant website is judged by a guest on a phone, usually standing outside or deciding between three places, and what that guest needs is not in a hero image. So this page looks at fifteen admired restaurant sites the way that guest does: what the design idea is, how the menu is shown, how you book, and whether the hours are there. Every site was visited on 30 September 2026, every claim was checked in the page source, and each entry says what is worth stealing.

The finding: the design ideas are varied, and the basics are missed in the same few ways. Six of fifteen publish a priced menu as text. Seven show hours on the homepage. Five of the most celebrated rely on an image, a PDF, or no menu. And four greeted a first-time visitor with a pop-up over the whole screen, which we removed for the screenshots and noted in the captions.

The menu as the front door

Septime puts the whole restaurant on one typographic page: the menu, what the wine pairing costs, the hours, the address, how far ahead bookings open, and a list of the winemakers they pour. Lunch is a five-course carte blanche at 85 euros, dinner seven courses at 135. It is the best example here of a site that answers every question a guest has without a second click, and it does it with almost no images.

Padella goes one step further: the homepage is today's menu, headed with the date, "Wednesday 30th September," with every dish priced, from "Pici cacio & pepe" at £13.50 down to the wine. A pasta bar with a queue does not need a story; it needs to tell you what is on today. Steal the date. It tells a guest the page is alive, which is the one thing a PDF can never do.

Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, the restaurant inside the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, opens with a dictionary definition of the word dinner, which is the concept (historical British recipes) in one screen. The menus page then does the unglamorous part properly: "6 Courses (£155) or 8 Courses (£195)," as text. Most hotel restaurants hide the price; this one prints it.

Qissa, an Indian restaurant in Sevenoaks in Kent, is the small-restaurant version done right: an editorial, numbered navigation, a priced text menu, and the hours and address on the homepage, "Monday Closed" included. It was nominated on Awwwards, and it would work just as well if it had not been.

Storytelling that still gets you to a table

Dishoom is built as "a love letter to Bombay," and the homepage opens on a quotation rather than a dish. What makes it work is the two buttons under the story: View menus and Book a table. The menus are priced text, one page per meal. The cost is weight: the homepage HTML is over a megabyte, and the hours are not on the homepage.

COTE runs four cities from one Webflow site, dark and art deco, and it is the group site that did not give up on the basics: hours on the homepage, priced text menus per city ("Butcher's Feast … 82 per person"), and a booking button that routes to Resy in New York and Miami and SevenRooms in Las Vegas and Singapore. Only the drinks lists are PDFs.

sketch is several restaurants in one building, from a Michelin-starred dining room to a café, and the homepage treats them as a grid of rooms, each with its own service hours and its own Menu and Book buttons. It is the pattern for any venue with more than one room: do not make a guest learn your floor plan before they can book the one they want.

Built to order

sweetgreen is the one site here designed around ordering, and every product card ends in "Order now" linked to its own ordering site. The menu page lists ingredients, allergens and nutrition as text ("900 Calories 39G Protein"), which is exactly what its guests ask. It shows no prices on the menu page and no hours on the homepage; for a chain whose guests order in an app, that is a defensible trade.

Lune shoots one product like a launch, and "Order Now" is the first thing on the page. The weak points are the ones a bakery can least afford: the site opens with a video intro and a Skip button, each store's menu is an image (a JPEG named for September 2026, at least current), and the hours are not on the homepage.

Voice and minimalism

Satan's Whiskers, a cocktail bar in Bethnal Green, is one screen with a voice: it tells you about the "now infamous hip-hop soundtrack," that the menu changes daily, and, in capitals, "WE WELCOME RESERVATIONS, BUT ONLY BY TELEPHONE." Hours and address are on the page. For a neighbourhood bar, that is a complete website, and the phone-only rule is stated before anyone can be annoyed by it.

Via Carota is illustration all the way down, with practical labels in Italian, "INDIRIZZO" and "ORARI," and the hours and address are right there. Its menu is a screenshot image with an empty alt attribute, which a screen reader and a search engine both see as nothing. It also publishes a plain text page with every dish and price ("fried rabbit … $29"), which is the fix: keep the designed menu, and give the text version its own address.

Superiority Burger takes minimalism as far as it goes: the whole homepage is about 225 characters of text. It is memorable, and it has one real cost: there is no menu on the site. The only route to one is the Delivery link, which forwards to Grubhub. Minimal is a style; no menu is a missing page.

Celebrated, and missing a menu

Eleven Madison Park is photography with almost no copy: a gallery of dishes and a Resy button. The only menu on the site is one of the gallery images, a JPEG named "Spring-Menu-2024," and the homepage shows the address but not the hours. A three-star restaurant can afford to let the pictures speak; the fix would still cost an afternoon.

Noma's homepage is written as a letter, "Copenhagen 2026: We're coming home," with a live weather reading and Tock for bookings, and the hours and address sit in the footer as text. There is no menu anywhere on the site; the links near the word lead to its shop. For Noma the scarcity is part of the product. For almost any other restaurant it would just be a missing page.

Death & Co runs five cities from one BentoBox site, with a moody photo slideshow and a location switcher. Each location's menu is a PDF or a PNG: the New York menu is a PDF dated June 2026 in its file name, and the East Village food menu is an image. The hours are on the location pages, not the homepage, and its /menus address returns a 404.

What to steal, in order of value

1. Put the menu on the page as text, with prices. It reads on a phone, it can be searched, and AI answers can quote it. Keep a designed version if you like; publish the text too, as Via Carota does.
2. Put the hours and the address on the homepage. Seven of fifteen did. It is the question most guests arrive with.
3. Make the booking button go straight to the booking tool. Most sites here do this well; it is the basic the industry has come closest to solving.
4. Date what changes. Padella's dated menu tells a guest the site is current. A file named Spring-Menu-2024 tells them the opposite.
5. Skip the pop-up on the first screen. Four of fifteen covered the page before a guest could see it.
6. Then design. One page (Septime), a grid of rooms (sketch), a letter (Noma), illustration (Via Carota): the idea can be anything once the basics are there.

Where we fit

We design and build restaurant websites, and the prices are fixed and published on the restaurant website design page. What we would build is the list above: a text menu the restaurant can update in a minute, hours and address on the homepage, a booking button wired to whatever tool you already use, and then the design idea. If a builder is the better fit for your budget, we compared the restaurant website builders on their published prices. And for the same basics applied to hotels, see why Booking.com looks cheaper than the hotel website.