✔ Convey the character of a signature meat restaurant from the first screen
✔ Lead guests to table booking, the menu and delivery
✔ Sell the VIP room and the banquet hall as event venues
✔ Take requests for banquets and gift vouchers
✔ Work equally well on a smartphone or a computer, in Ukrainian and English
Beef&Cake is a signature meat restaurant on Proskurivska Street in Khmelnytskyi. Besides the main dining room, it has a VIP room for 8–10 guests with its own entrance and balcony, and a banquet hall for up to 50 people with an LED screen and a bar counter – plus gift vouchers, a souvenir shop and a 3D tour. The restaurant needed a website that shows all of this and leads to a booking.
I organised the content around what guests come for: “I want dinner” – table booking and the menu; “I have an event” – the VIP room, the banquet hall and a request form; “I’m looking for a gift” – vouchers. I built the site on WordPress with a custom theme, so the restaurant can update its news, photos and texts itself.
The result is a website in Ukrainian and English with a full mobile version: home, about the restaurant, VIP room, banquet hall, 3D tour, gallery, news, a gift voucher pop-up and request forms for banquets and vouchers.
A website where the restaurant shows its character and guests book a table, a banquet or a voucher in a couple of taps.
From table booking and the menu to the VIP room, banquets, vouchers, news and awards
Every page, form and pop-up works smoothly on a smartphone
Contact Form 7: name, email, phone with a +380 mask and a “Sent” confirmation
“Our menu”, “Our atmosphere”, “Our interior” on Photo Gallery – photos added from the admin panel
An ENG | UKR switcher in the header on every page, on desktop and mobile
Google Site Kit: traffic and search data right in the WordPress dashboard
The restaurant’s character shows from the first screen, and every key action is one tap away – on any device and in two languages.
The website’s main tasks are to:
Guaranteed reply within 24 hours.
The first call is free and with no commitment.
Guests decide where to go in a couple of minutes – based on the photos, the atmosphere and how easy it is to book a table. Using Beef&Cake in Khmelnytskyi as an example, I explain how I built a WordPress restaurant website with banquets, a VIP room, gift vouchers, two language versions and a full mobile version.
Beef&Cake is a signature meat restaurant in the centre of Khmelnytskyi, on Proskurivska Street. The focus is on meat dishes made to the chef’s own recipes, and besides the main dining room there is a VIP room and a banquet hall. The restaurant sells gift vouchers, runs a souvenir shop, shows its rooms in a 3D tour, wins awards and publishes its own news – for example, about a record-breaking beef tartare, officially registered by the Book of Records of Ukraine.
All of this had to come together in a website that conveys the restaurant’s character and leads to action: booking a table, ordering a banquet or buying a voucher. I built that website on WordPress with a custom theme – with two language versions, request forms, galleries, news and a full mobile version.
I started not with a list of pages but with the reasons people open a restaurant’s website. That gave three scenarios, each with its own short path:
The other pages support the choice: about the restaurant, the 3D tour, the gallery and news. The header holds the logo, a link to the 3D tour, the ENG | UKR language switcher and a menu button. The menu opens up every section of the site, as well as the owner’s other ventures, catering and the souvenir shop.
The first screen is a dark photo of the dining room with brick walls and warm lighting, the logo with a butcher’s cuts diagram and a gold “Book a table” button. The home page then gives a quick tour of everything the restaurant has:
The footer lists the site’s sections, the owner’s other ventures and services: catering and the souvenir shop. Its background is an outline of the butcher’s cuts diagram – the same motif as in the logo.
Event venues are a separate source of requests, so each one has its own page. Text alternates with vertical photos, left and right, and key phrases are picked out in a handwritten font: the long description is easier to read and the main points stand out.
Both pages end with a photo slider, and on the banquet hall page a “Banquet request” button opens the request form.
The galleries are built on the Photo Gallery plugin and split into three themes – “Our menu”, “Our atmosphere” and “Our interior”. The main gallery page shows a selection from each theme, and each theme has its own page with the full set of photos. The restaurant adds new pictures itself from the admin panel, without touching the code.
News items are WordPress posts: they appear in a slider on the home page and open as separate article pages. The 3D tour is linked from the header and from the “About the restaurant” block and opens on its own page – guests can take a look at the dining room before they visit.
I built the banquet and gift voucher request forms on Contact Form 7 and kept them short and consistent: name, email and a phone number with a +380 mask, a note that a manager will call back, and a consent line for the processing of personal data. The mask stops numbers being entered in the wrong format, so the manager gets a phone number they can call straight away. After sending, guests see a “Sent” message, so it is clear the request has gone through.
Vouchers have their own pop-up window: an image of the voucher, a description and a “Buy” button that leads to the request form. Guests stay on the page where the gift caught their eye.
The site runs on WordPress with a custom theme written for this project. The restaurant changes page texts, news and photos from the admin panel, and the site still looks consistent, because every block – sliders, collages, cards, forms – is built into the theme’s templates.
A restaurant website sells an experience rather than dishes: the atmosphere, the flavours and a reason to come. So when I build a website for a restaurant, I follow a few principles:
If you need a website for a restaurant, café or bar, I can help turn your venue’s character into a site where guests quickly find the menu, book a table and send a banquet request.
