Service: restaurant and bar websites
Restaurant and bar websites with a dashboard you run yourself
Your menu, your drinks and your events, all edited from a dashboard behind your site, without calling a developer every time a price changes. I built exactly this for Salmon Guru in Dubai.
What you can edit yourself
- The food menu: dishes, descriptions, prices and sections.
- Drinks and cocktails, with their photos.
- Events: add a night, change it, and remove it when it is over.
- Anything else that changes often, such as opening hours or this week's specials, if you need it.
Why not a PDF menu or a template?
- A PDF menu is hard to read on a phone, which is where most people look at menus, and it has to be redesigned and re-uploaded for every price change.
- A menu written on the page reads well on any screen, and search engines can read every dish on it.
- A template looks like everyone else's. A restaurant or bar sells an atmosphere, and the site should feel like walking in.
Built for Salmon Guru, Dubai
The Dubai home of Salmon Guru, the cocktail bar from Madrid, in Business Bay. The site shows the cocktails, the food menu and upcoming events, and every one of them is added and edited from a custom dashboard behind it. Built alone, end to end.
Read the case study: how the dashboard works, the Instagram feed that keeps loading even when Instagram does not, and why reservations go to WhatsApp.
What it costs
Restaurant and bar websites start at $1,200 (about AED 4,400). A custom dashboard for your menu, drinks and events is priced with the build, because it depends on what you need to edit: you get the exact number in writing after a twenty minute call. Care and maintenance after launch starts at $99 a month. More in the price guides for Lebanon and Dubai.
Questions people ask
Can I change prices and dishes myself?
Yes, that is the point of the dashboard. You log in, change the item, and the site updates. No developer, no waiting, no PDF to re-export.
Can the site take table reservations?
Yes. It can link to the reservation tool you already use, or take bookings directly with a booking system built into the site.
What about online ordering and delivery?
The site can send people to your delivery apps. Taking orders directly on your own site is a bigger build, quoted separately.
Do I own everything?
Yes. The code, the domain, the hosting, the databases, every account. All of it registered in your name from the start, never mine. If anyone ever tells you they need to set it up under their own account, walk away.